İTO, dünyada gişe rekortmeni olacak filmlerin, doğal film platosu özelliğine sahip Türkiye’de çekilmesini teşvik etmek amacıyla "Filming in Turkey (Türkiye’de film çekimi)" adıyla bir sinema portalı oluşturuyor. 17 ilde film çekimine uygun 150’den fazla doğal, kültürel ve tarihi mekanın görüntüleri, sinema portalına yüklenerek yabancı film yapımcılarına tanıtılacak.
#İstanbul Ticaret OdasıMELBOURNE - The Australian city of Melbourne will host the Turkish Film Festival from April 19 and 24. The festival will be organized by the Turkish Culture Ministry’s Cinema Department and the Antalya Foundation for Culture and Arts, or AKSAV, at the Australian Center for the Moving Image, or ACMI.
ISTANBUL - Turkish directors are in Armenian capital of Yerevan to attend the International Golden Apricot Film Festival, which will be organized for the sixth time this year. Directors from all around the world will gather around the theme of 'Directors Across Borders'
MARDİN - A Syriac man, whose life story is like a film, is a part of this year's Sinemardin Film Festival in the southeastern Mardin. Well-known journalist and director Nuri Kino, who was born in Midyat but raised in Sweden, says, 'I have seen many red carpets in my life, but I have never been this emotional and happy to participate in a film festival.'
ISTANBUL - 'İki Dil Bir Bavul' (On the Way to School) was one of the most admired films at the Adana Golden Boll International Film Festival. The two directors have shot many documentaries over the years but they say this was their most successful. The documentary-like film's characters are from the real world. A young teacher who comes from Denizli tries to teach Turkish, instead of primary school classes, to Kurdish children who do not even speak a word of Turkish.
ISTANBUL - A new documentary reveals the 30-year secret of Ömer and Ankine, one of the most recent representatives of Turkish canto, who is known as Aysun Işık. Their story, told in 46 minutes, has been adapted for the silver screen and will be shown in Istanbul on Thursday
ISTANBUL - iDANS Istanbul International Contemporary Dance and Performance Festival, presented by the Bimeras Cultural Foundation, completes its marathon month-long program today with a fascinating performance that combines visual and cinematographic arts with choreography and performance.
ISTANBUL - Twenty local and international artists, brought together by Filipino curator and artist Rowena Martinez Ulayan, are showing their work at Beylerbeyi Palace on Istanbul’s Asian shoreline. Hailing from Cuba, Mauritius, Russia, South Africa and the United States, as well as Turkey, all the artists brought together by Ulayan have made Istanbul their home. The exhibition, ’Creative Euphoria,’ is on view until June 4
ISTANBUL - ’Benim ve Roz’un Sonbaharı’ (Roz’s and My Autumn) is based on a story of a journalist who publishes a local newspaper with the support of a few acquaintances to save Hasankeyf, a 10,000 year old settlement, from being flooded to accommodate a dam that is being planned in the area.
ISTANBUL - Rock singer Aylin Aslım has a new album and little tolerance for nonsense. She says she’s ’still not in that accept-everything stage. I hope I never get there.’ With a concert this Wednesday in Istanbul premiering her third album in stores next month, Aslim’s songs have earned acceptance from some 200,000 listeners online
ISTANBUL - Whether a novel or a documentary film, Handan Öztürk barely finishes one project before she is onto the next. In her fictional books and factual documentaries, her work often features female heroines who face the region’s Eastern and Western struggles.
ISTANBUL - Once the Ottoman capital, today’s green city of textiles is the essence of a common Turkish paradox: Bursa has long been a conservative city but many women there are making their way in male-dominated businesses Ğ including the run for the city’s top job
ISTANBUL - Istanbul’s Bayrampaşa district, which hosts the city’s notorious prison, will undergo renovations in 35 different projects. Yet this renovation begins by removing the old skeletons. During the celebration to promote the projects the most important part of the prison, it’s 400 meter long walls will be demolished to supply a wider street for cars