The new crop of the Biennale College Cinema[1] (6th edition, 2017-2018) funded films has just completed shooting in Italy, Turkey and Hungary and getting ready for their world premiere at Venice International Film Festival 2018 (August 29-September 8, 2018).
Biennale College screening | SELYATAĞI (FLOODPLAIN) Venice Virtual Reality
Director: Deniz Tortum| Running Time:12’ Country: Turkey
Main Cast:Okan Bozkuş, Berk Akman, Turgut Ekinci, Çağdaş Akar, Nihat Can Tinas | Notes: producer: Anna Maria Aslanoglu VR theatre
Mavi Boncuk |
Yuva (Turkey) – Emre Yeksan (director), Anna Maria Aslanoğlu [2](producer) - VEYSEL's wild solitary life in the woods is disrupted when the land he inhabits is sold to investors. One day, his younger brother HASAN comes from the city to convince him to leave. As the imminent threat of the eviction rapidly grows, the belated confrontation of the two brothers leads to the discovery of a magical home: A hidden universe in the heart of the forest.
[1] This is the sixth year that Biennale College – Cinema, an initiative established by La Biennale di Venezia in 2012, supports the production of these three micro-budget films, with a grant of 150,000 euro.
La Biennale di Venezia through Biennale College - Cinema has funded 19 features, each premiered at the Venice Film Festival since its 70th edition. Highlights include award-winning films such as The Fits (USA, 2015) by Anna Rose Holmer, Blanka by Kohki Hasei (Japan, 2015), Short Skin (Italy, 2014) by Duccio Chiarini, and Mukti Bhawan – Hotel Salvation (India, 2016) by Shubhashish Bhutiani.
The Biennale College is an innovative and complex experience that engages every department of the Biennale di Venezia chaired by Paolo Baratta, that cultivates young talents by offering them the opportunity to work side by side with the masters, to develop their “creations”.
The Biennale College – Cinema project, now in its 6th edition, is supported by the Ministry for the Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism – General Direction Cinema, and enjoys the academic collaboration of IFP New York and the TorinoFilmLab, and the support of Condé Nast. The Director is Alberto Barbera, Head of Programme is Savina Neirotti.
The Biennale College – Cinema and Biennale College – Cinema Virtual Reality projects for the 2017/2018 edition, will receive significant funding from the European Commission – Connect Directorate General’s MEDIA – Creative Europe Programme. The educational activities of the 2017-2018 edition will thus be supported by a MEDIA grant. This grant increases the funding which the MEDIA Programme has awarded to the development of the Venice Production Bridge.
Starting this year, the Biennale College – Cinema will enjoy the support of Eurimages, the cultural fund of the European Council, to cover the expenses for travel, hospitality and training for one woman director (Eurimages Residency Grant), who this year will be Petra Szocs (Hungary), director of the Deva Mall project.
[2] istos film is a joint and new venture of istos publishing, the first bilingual (Turkish and Greek) publishing house to focus on creative efforts to rediscover and reinterpret the memories and lived experience within the common geography of the Balkans and Anatolia. Founding istos film allowed us to combine our past freelance experience at various levels of filmmaking within this thematic context. We wish in particular to pursue modest but pioneering film productions (fiction or documentary), centered on personal and social narratives ‘from below’ that break through the restrictive binaries and stereotypes of mainstream discourse. istos hopes to contribute to the upper-coming field of creative producing in Turkey, while also establishing ties with experienced and internationally acclaimed filmmakers.
SEE ALSO: Interview Emre Yeksan • Director “We live in a period of slow decay, and the smell won’t go away any time soon” by Vassilis Economou
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