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JCI İSTANBUL CROSSROADS

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

5th International Short Film Festival 2010
“Intercultural Dialogue and Immigration”

DEADLINE FOR SHORT FILM SUBMISSIONS: 9th October,2010

The festival is a short film competition that aims to create a global awareness to the emigration problems and all cinemamakers and cinema fans to transfer their “Intercultural Dialogue and Immigration” themed films to big screen. Festival will include seminars, panels, film screenings and workshops. In the competition section fiction, animation, documentary, and experimental short films with the “Intercultural Dialogue and Immigration” theme will compete and the directors will be supported with various awards.

This festival is a project of the non-profit organization connected to Junior Chamber International, “Worldwide Federation of Young Leaders and Entrepreneurs” Istanbul branch which is accepted as a constituent organization by other federations including Council of Europe and Euro Chambers as well as United Nation. JCI, being established in 1910, is the world’s 3rd biggest non-governmental organization with more than 200,000 members in 124 countries.

JCI ‹stanbul Crossroads International Short Film Competition and Festival is accepted to be supporting and making a contribution to the presentation of Turkey by Ministry of Culture and has been selected “World’s Most Successful Public Relations Program” and “Europe’s Most Successful Publication” in JCI 2007 World Congress.

Click here for 2010 Applying Conditions

Istanbul Express Filmmaking Workshop

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

3 Trains, 24 Cities, 10920 km of railway

Istanbul Express: Exploring Multilingualism across Europe is a filmmaking workshop aiming to explore common issues about languages. Participants aged 18 – 30 will answer these questions in a stimulating atmosphere, far away from clichés and preconceived ideas. They will meet locals from stopover cities, travellers in the train. They will see the cultural differences with their own eyes during these long trips. Crossing the multiple borders and experiencing different linguistic situations first-hand may be the best way to understand them.

15 films will be made in 3 weeks on the trains and 1 week in Istanbul

Film crews will meet in Tallinn (Estonia), San Sebastian (Spain) and Turin (Italy) on the 20th of September, starting the journey and finally arriving Istanbul on the 10th of October. The trains will travel through Europe and stopping at the following cities:
- Tallinn / Helsinki / Turku / Stockholm / Berlin / Prague / Bratislava / Bucharest / Istanbul
- San Sebastian / Paris / Brussels / Amsterdam / Essen / Vienna / Budapest / Sofia / Istanbul
- Turin / Ljubljana / Zagreb / Pecs / Belgrad / Skopje / Thessaloniki / Istanbul

Multilingualism and traveling are main themes this year for NISI MASA! Exactly the themes defining our new Euro-generation! Follow NISI MASA for our new projects including linguistics and exploring different geographies!

The world premiere of the films shot and edited during the project, will be made in Istanbul, the European Capital of Culture in 2010, with a series of events including screenings, panels, parties, meetings.

More info: Nisi Masa online.