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5. Contact Uluslararası Öğrenci Filmleri Festivali 22 - 26 Ekim 2018 Düzenleyen Yaşar Üniversitesi Üniversite Caddesi, No:35-37, Ağaçlı Yol, Bornova, İzmir PK. 35100 contact-isff @ yasar.edu.tr contact-isff.yasar.edu.tr facebook.com/contactfilmfest twitter.com/contactfilmfest Contact’da ödüller sahiplerini buldu Yaşar Üniversitesinin ev sahipliğinde bu yıl beşincisi gerçekleşen Contact Uluslararası Öğrenci Filmleri Festivali ve Yarışmasında ödüller düzenlenen törenle sahibini buldu. Dünyanın dört bir yanından bin 671 öğrenci filminin başvurduğu ve seçilen 13 finalistin yarıştığı festivalde, sektör temsilcileri, Portekiz’in kökleri 1830’lara dayanan dünyaca ünlü sinema okulu Lizbon Sinema ve Tiyatro Yüksek Okulundan akademisyenler de öğrencilerle buluştu. Yaşar Üniversitesi İletişim ve Sanat ve Tasarım fakültelerinin ortaklaşa düzenlediği Beşinci Contact Uluslararası Öğrenci Filmleri Festivali ve Yarışmasında, ödüller sahiplerini buldu. Yarışmaya, bu yıl, İngiltere’den Fransa’ya, Arjantin’den Tayland’a kadar birçok ülkedeki sinema okulundan bin 671 film başvurdu. Prof. Dr. Nazlı Bayram, Prof. Dr. Şefik Güngör, Doç. Dr. Çağrı İnceoğlu, Dr. Sevcan Sönmez ve Markus Berger’den oluşan ön jürinin elemesinden geçerek finale kalan 13 film, Portekizli akademisyenler Prof. Andre Almeida, Prof. Luis Fonseca, yönetmenler Nurhan Özsoy, Engin Erden ve Barış Çorak’tan oluşan festival Jürisi önünde yarıştı. Kurmaca, belgesel, deneysel ve animasyon dallarında finale kalan 11 ülkeden 13 yönetmenin filmleri, “En iyi film, en iyi senaryo, Böcek Yapım ödülleri” ile öğrenci jürisinin seçeceği en iyi film ödülü için yarıştı. FESTİVALİN KONUĞU PORTEKİZ Her yıl tanınmış bir film okulunu konuk eden festivalin, bu yılki konuğu, kökleri 1830’lara kadar uzanan, şimdiye dek Portekiz sinemasına birçok ünlü yönetmen ve teknik eleman yetiştiren Lizbon Sinema ve Tiyatro Yüksekokulu oldu. Okulun öğretim üyeleri Prof. Andre Almeida ve Prof. Luis Fonseca öğrencilere yönelik ustalık sınıfları da yürüttü. Ayrıca, Atila Akkaş, Engin Erden, Barış Çorak, Atila Akkaş, Oytun Orgül de seminerler verdi. Festival Direktörleri Prof. Dr. Şefik Güngör ile Prof. Dr. Nazlı Bayram, her yıl daha geniş bir katılım olduğunu belirterek, dünya çapında film okullarını ağırlamaktan duydukları memnuniyeti dile getirdi. Yaşar Üniversitesi Mütevelli Heyeti Başkanı ve Portekiz’in İzmir Fahri Konsolosu Ahmet Yiğitbaşı, festivalin, her yıl konuk olarak tanınmış bir uluslararası film okuluna ev sahipliği yaptığını hatırlatarak, bu yıl Portekiz’den Lizbon Sinema ve Tiyatro Yüksekokulunu ağırlamaktan büyük mutluluk duyduklarını dile getirdi. Ülkeler arasındaki kültürel ilişkilerin, ekonomik ve politik ilişkilerin geliştirilmesinde büyük önem taşıdığını vurgulayan Ahmet Yiğitbaşı, “Üniversitelerin görevlerinden biri de bu kültürel ilişkilerin gelişmesine katkıda bulunmaktır. Bu Festivalin de bu amaç için mükemmel bir araç olduğunu düşünüyoruz” dedi. Yaşar Üniversitesi Mütevelli Heyeti Başkanı ve Portekiz’in İzmir Fahri Konsolosu Ahmet Yiğitbaşı Portekizcenin Yaşar Üniversitesinde ikinci yabancı dil olarak öğretildiğini ve YÜSEM aracılığıyla Portekizce kursları düzenlendiğini belirten Yiğitbaşı, önümüzdeki Aralık ayında, sergiler, söyleşiler ve film gösterimleri gibi kültürel faaliyetleri de kapsayan Portekiz Sinema Günleri etkinliğinin gerçekleştirileceğini de ifade etti. Festivalin, Yaşar Üniversitesinin akademik felsefesinin iki stratejisi olan “uluslararasılaşma” ve “yaparak öğrenme” açısından önemine değinen Rektör Prof. Dr. Cemali Dinçer ise “Öğrencilerimiz, festival sayesinde hem uluslararası bir sanatsal ve akademik ortamdan yararlanma fırsatı bulurken hem de bu süre içerisinde gerçekleşen ustalık sınıfları ve seminerlerde yaparak öğrenme felsefemize uygun olanaklar elde etti” şeklinde konuştu. Yaşar Üniversitesi Rektörü Prof. Dr. Cemali Dinçer Ödüller ise şu isimlere gitti: Yaşar Üniversitesi En İyi Kısa Fim Ödülü A Short Film About Sadness filmi ile Ming-Wei Chiang - Polonya Sen-Edit En İyi Senaryo Ödülü Kerata filmi ile Kasım Ördek - Yeni Yüzyıl Üniversitesi Böcek Yapım Ödülü Kerata filmi ile Kasım Ördek - Yeni Yüzyıl Üniversitesi Öğrenci Jurisi Ödülü Find Fix Finish filmi ile Sylvain Cruiziat ve Mila Zhluktenko - Almanya Flower Found filmi ile Jorn Leeuwerink - Hollanda Jüri Özel Ödülü Find Fix Finish filmi ile Sylvain Cruiziat ve Mila Zhluktenko - Almanya Ming-Wei Chiang yerine ödülü Prof.Dr.Ümit Atabek(solda) Prof.Dr.Ali Nazın Sözer’den aldı. Yaşar Üniversitesi En İyi Kısa Film Ödülünü kazanan Ming-Wei Chiang video bağlantısı ile teşekkür dileklerini iletti. 2018 INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION After careful consideration our programming team have nominated the following 13 finalists in the 2018 international student film competition: Guanzillum Frédérick Neegan Trudel Institut national de l’image et du son (INIS) Canada, 2017 15.00 Guanzillum is an old magician who has problems maintaining his cabaret, as well as his relationship with his son who increasingly demonstrates his interest in his father’s profession. But Guanzillum is not yet ready to pass the torch and he has one last trick in his bag. Frédérick Neegan Trudel is a director of Huron Wendat origin. After embarking on a three-year journey around the world, he worked for several years in the special effects and 3D animation industry. Curious and on the lookout for innovative ways and new challenges to tell his stories, he has enrolled in the Cinema program of INIS. Corn Ömür Yıldırım Akdeniz University Turkey, 2017 7.40 Samet has been brought up by his grandparents since childhood. While he grows up and leaves his childhood behind, he is trying to gain his independence from his grandfather. Born in 1994, Ömür Yıldırım is a graduate of Akdeniz University and is one of the founding members of Antalya Cinema Society. He has worked in advertising industry as a photographer and as director of photography. He is still active in the industry. Mathias Clara Stern The Film Academy Vienna Austria, 2017 30.00 Mathias is transgender. Although he is more than sure about his decision to live as a man, he still has to find his way through life in his new identity, especially in his new job. His relationship with his girlfriend also seems to have changed due to his transition. Clara Stern was born in 1987 in Vienna, Austria. She studied Directing and Screenplay Writing at the Film Academy Vienna, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria. She was the awardee of Carl-Mayer-Screenplay-Award of the city of Graz in 2016 and 2018. She has several short-films, both documentaries and fiction. The Next Stop Dominik György Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague Czech Republic, 2018 13.23 Family life of a loving mother and her mentally challenged son becomes a daily struggle with only one goal: survival. She would do anything for her son who lives in his own fantasy world and will never grow up, but there is not much she can do. Only role playing as a bus driver offers a short escape from their daily routine… Dominik Gygrgy is a young film director from Slovakia, where he studied film and sound at the Secondary Film School. He has been working since the age of nine. His most successful films include Death of Art, Different and Seven Deadly Sins. The Dust Doesn't Want to Come Out of the Esqueleto Daniel Santiso & Max William Morais Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, State University of Rio de Janeiro Brazil, 2018 20.00 Four inhabitants of the state of Rio de Janeiro are part of the removals that are happening now in the Metrô-Mangueira community, telling us stories. These narratives arise from the encounter with the images of the removal of the Esqueleto community in that same place five decades earlier. Daniel Santiso (1993) is Brazilian living in Rio de Janeiro. He is a student of Cinema and TV at the School of Communication of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He works with editing, photography, screenplay and production. With Lorran Dias and Max William Morais, he was curator of the Semana Cinerama (Cinerama Week), an independent festival of video-art and experimental film in Rio de Janeiro. Max Morais (1993) is a Brazilian living in Rio de Janeiro. She holds a degree in Visual Arts at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, works with costumes, artistic direction and executive production, also producing the seminar Entre a natureza e o artíficio (Between Nature and Artifice). Delay Osman Çakır Erciyes University Turkey, 2018 12.00 A train is late to arrive in a provincial station. Every passenger waiting for the train will have different reactions to this delay. Born in 1995, and a student of Erciyes University, Çakır is also the director of Korkuluk. He has won various awards for his films and is now working in the official television station of Erciyes University, Kampüs TV. Find Fix Finish Sylvain Cruiziat & Mila Zhlutenko University of Television and Film Munich Germany, 2017 19.25 Find Fix Finish delves into the accounts of three military drone pilots as they tell the intimate story of the lives they observe on a day-to-day basis. The voyeuristic ocular perspective from a military drone can reduce people to pixels on a screen and a certain decontextualisation is almost necessary to deal with the fact that people can be killed on a push of a button. “Have you ever stepped on an anthill and not given it a second thought?”. Sylvain Cruiziat is a Franco-German filmmaker, born in July of 1995. Since his enrolment in HFF Munchen in 2014, Sylvain has directed several short films including his latest short documentary film: Find Fix Finish. Mila Zhluktenko, born in February of 1991 in Kiew, is a Ukrainian-German filmmaker. Since her enrolment in HFF Munchen, in 2014, Mila has directed several short films including her latest short documentary film Find Fix Finish. Flower Found Jorn Leeuwerink HKU University of Arts Utrecht Netherlands, 2017 6.46 A beautiful red flower stands in the middle of the forest. When it suddenly disappears, Mouse is very sad. Bird takes Mouse around the forest to search for the flower and other animals join in the search too. When they think they’ve found the flower, things quickly start to get out of hand. Jorn Leeuwerink was born on July 19, 1990 in the Netherlands. He studied 2D animation at the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht. A Short Film About Sadness Ming-Wei Chiang Lodz Film School Poland, 2018 15.22 One night, two film school students meet a prostitute. Once they put a camera on her and start interviewing, one of the young film-makers gradually realizes that she is not the person they assumed she would be like. This unexpected encounter brings him to a moral choice that he has to make. Graduated from the YZU department of Art and Design in Taiwan, Ming-Wei Chiang worked as propsman and set decorator in Tsai Ming-Liang’s Stray Dogs (2013). He directed Frog (2013) and was awarded Jury Special Mentions in Chinese Visual Festival held in King’s College, London. He is currently studying at Lodz Film School. Non-Rainy Philosophy Fran Gondi EMCA France, 2017 6.45 A being walks with his umbrella under a hard rainy night. Lampposts will guide him in the dark. After two years of studying Illustration and Graphism in Spain, Fran Gondi studied in EMCA School in France for four years. While he was there he made several films and a graduation film focusing on puppets and pixelation technics. Currently he works in France as a stop motion animator. Shoehorn Kasım Ördek İstanbul Yeni Yüzyıl University Turkey, 2018 20.00 Ekrem, 32 years old, finished his prison sentence recently. Now he collects waste materials and sells them to feed his family. One day he comes upon an item and he realises that it belongs to his wife. Ekrem starts to suspect that his wife is cheating on him, doing things behind his back. Born in 1992 in Diyarbakır, Kasım Ördek immigrated to Istanbul with his family in 1995. He graduated from the Radio, Television and Cinema department of Yeni Yüzyıl University. Kerata (2018) is his first short film. A Dialogue With Cyberspace Brian den Hartog RITCS School of Arts Brussel Belgium, 2017 14.00 In our everyday face-to-face interaction, we express ourselves with our bodies. It gives us the ability to physically be with each other. Since a few decades, an increasing part of our interaction takes place via new technologies, with the result that we’ve created a digital version of ourselves that we can shape however we want it to be. By trying to replace our physical way of being by online interaction, we started an ambiguous quest that confuses us. This confusion, of our physical self opposite to it’s virtual replica, forms the foundation of this film. Brian den HARTOG (1989, the Netherlands) studied in theatre school before he went to Brussels to start his BA in Documentary Filmmaking at RITCS. In 2017, he graduated with high distinction with the film A Dialogue with Cyberspace, world premiere at IFFR 2018. Den Hartog researches the conception of self in a more and more technological society. Blue Sky, Clean Earth Mahyar Mandegar Tehran University of Art Iran, 2017 11.00 “My name is Massoud and this is a holding cell. I am a thief. That’s why they always bring me here. But this time I’m being charged with something else…” Mahyar Mandegar was born 1996 in Tehran, Iran. He started his career in the Faculty of Cinema & Theater at the Art University of Tehran. After two years he focused on editing and participated as editor in short films such as Barcelona (2017), Nausea (2018), Stairways (2018), Metamorphosis (2018). His first short film Blue Sky, Clean Earth (2017) won the Best Film Under 15 Minutes and Best Cinematography from Image of the Year Film Festival (Iran). It also won Best Original Score from Nahal Short Film Festival (Iran). Selection of Out of Competition films: Las del Diente Ana Pérez López California Institute of the Arts Spain/USA, 2018 5.28 Girls are weird. Babies are weird. Bodies are extra weird. Las del Diente is a film about now, a time when women are tired of being forced to choose between having kids and their careers. “Anomalous” days of the reproductive system should be celebrated instead of stigmatized. Ana Pérez López is a Spanish animator and journalist based in Los Angeles, California. Her first film has been featured in Motionographer and screened at festivals such as Dok Leipzig, MIAF, 3D wire and ANIMASIVO. No Gravity Charline Parisot, Jérémy Cissé, Fioretta Caterina Cosmidis, Flore Allier-Estrada, Maud Lemaître-Blanchart, Ludovic Abraham Supinfocom Rubika France, 2018 7.56 An astronaut comes back to earth and tries to fit in to his home planet again. Charline Parisot, Jérémy Cissé, Fioretta Caterina Cosmidis, Flore Allier-Estrada, Maud Lemaître- Blanchart and Ludovic Abraham have graduated from Supinfocom Rubika School with a Masters degree. In 2018, they co-directed their short film No Gravity. Lalo's House Kelley Kali University of Southern California USA, 2018 25.00 After being taken from their home in Jacmel, Haiti, two young sisters must escape a child sex trafficking ring, disguised as a Catholic orphanage. Inspired by true events. Kelley Kali is a Beninese/American filmmaker. She received her MFA from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. Her more recent work Lalo’s House, filmed on location in Haiti, won the Programmers’ Award at the 2018 Pan African Film Festival. Embodying Voice Ala Nunu Leszynska Royal College of Art London UK, 2017 0.45 A short lipsync inspired by a piece of recording found in the British Library archives. Ala Nunu Leszynska - London based polish animator, currently studying MA in animation at Royal College of Art. Facing It Sam Gainsborough National Film & TV School UK, 2018 7.32 As Sean waits anxiously in the local pub, he is forced to explore his own unhappy memories and relationships in an evening that will leave him changed forever. Sam Gainsborough is an animation director who has combined live-action filming with stop-motion plasticine animation to create his own unique animation medium. Prior to the NFTS, he obtained a BA in screenwriting from the Arts University Bournemouth, and directed multiple animated short films and music videos. 300g/m2 Kamila Kucikova Estonian Academy of Arts Estonia, 2018 5.33 It’s a monodrama of a white-white paper. Born in Slovakia, he worked for the festival Fest Anca. Now living in Estonia, he is working for PÖFF Shorts. The international jury of the 5th edition of Contact - International Student Film Festival will award the following prizes and special mentions: Grand Prix for the Best Short Film (with no tie exceptions) the winner will receive a cash prize of 2000 Euros, kindly offered by Yasar University Rectorate. SenEDIT Award for Best Story the winner will receive a cash prize of 500 Euros and a SenEDIT software package complimentary unlimited access, kindly offered by our main sponsor SenEDIT. Böcek Yapım Award the winner will receive post-production support worth 1500 Euros for their next film, available to be used within one year after claiming the prize. The international student jury will award the following special mention: Student Audience Award International Jury Professor André Almeida / Filmmaker and Film Editor André Valentim Almeida is a Portuguese filmmaker and film editor currently teaching editing at Lisbon Theatre and Film School. He taught media production at the University of Porto and Aveiro and was the scientific coordinator of a major video training program at the newsroom of the Portuguese news agency (LUSA). André was part of the first yearlong collaborative documentary program at the UnionDocs (Brooklyn, NY) where he then became the Collaborative Studio Director for one year - as part of his PhD research on Interactive Documentary. He is currently part of the board of APORDOC, the Portuguese Documentary Association Professor Luís Fonseca / Academician and Director Luís Miguel Fonseca was born in Lisbon and studied cinema at ESTC. He worked as assistant director and script supervisor for several years. He was a co-founder of the production company Contracosta Produções. Directed shorts and documentaries and the feature length Antes Que o Tempo Mude (Before Things Change, FIPRESCI prize at BAFICI 06 - 2004). He also worked in theater as a producer, translator, playwright and director, having also co-founded the theater company Casa Conveniente. Teaches at ESTC since 2005. Nurhan Özsoy / Director and Producer Nurhan Özsoy Tasdemir holds a degree in Radio-Television Cinema from Ege University, Faculty of Communication. Her documentary Crete and the Population Exchange won ‘The Best Documentary’ award in Young Communicators Compete contest. Since 2001 she has been working in TRT as a producer and director. Involved in the EBU project “Animals in Danger’’ in 2008, Tasdemir, in the same year representing TRT, has participated in the ABU meeting held in Malaysia with the film Bicycle Manufacturing directed by her in the category “How Things Are Made?”. She is the director and producer of the documentaries “Günes Saatleri / Hours of Sun”, “Yasamdan Kareler / Scenes from Life”, “Piva Manastiri / Piva Monastery” and “Kaz Otaran / Gooseherder”, which the was a finalist in many national and international festivals, winning the best documentary award at Rural Film Festival. She has acted as a jury in Rural Film Festival in 2018. Since May of 2017, she has been an executive at TRT Documentary and executive produced many documentaries there. Engin Erden / Director and Copywriter Engin Erden was born in Izmir in 1986. He moved to Istanbul when he was 22 and worked in Turkey’s leading advertising agencies as copywriter for six years. He wrote commercials, radio spots, press ads, and integrated campaigns for international and national brands. He has been the recipient of many awards in his six year career in advertising, such as Grand Prix in Golden Drum, Design Gold in London International Awards and many others. By the time he became 29, he quit his job to chase his passion for filmmaking. He moved to Prague to study directing in Prague Film School for a year. He wrote and directed six short films as school projects. He also directed a music video for Berlin/Istanbul based krautrock band Farfara. After he came back to Istanbul, he joined Böcek Yapim in September 2016. Baris Çorak / Director Born and lives in Istanbul. Upon completing his studies at Anadolu University, Department of Cinema and TV, he went to Baltic Film and Media School in Estonia. He is currently a postgraduate student in History department at Bilgi University in Istanbul. Before he started directing TV commercials, he made award winning short films, received best film and best director awards and worked as an assistant director for feature films. His latest short film Birlikte (Together) was selected to Locarno Film Festival’s Pardi Di Domani section (Leopard of Tomorrow), the festival’s main short film competition. Pre-selection Jury Professor Nazli Bayram Nazli Bayram studied Cinema and Television at Anadolu University. Her short documentary named “Moment” was screened at film festivals in U.S.A, Germany, Portugal, Turkey and was nominated for best documentary by SIYAD and best film by Exground Film Festival. Ms. Bayram is also one of the directors and the producer of documentary film named Insan Kent (City of People). She is the head of department of Radio, Television and Cinema Department at Yasar University. She is teaching screenwriting and directing. Professor Sefik Güngör Professor Sefik Güngör graduated from Ege University Faculty of Fine Arts, Film and TV Department. He began his academic career at Dokuz Eylül University. He is the Head of Film Design Department at Yasar University since 2008 and he has been working on documentary film and cinematography. Associate Professor Çagri Inceoglu Çagri Inceoglu graduated from Anadolu University, Department of Cinema and Television. He holds master’s degrees on Social and Political Thought from The University of Warwick (2005) and Arts Management from Yeditepe University (2001). His doctoral research is about Modernization and Turkish Cinema. His main research interest is film studies and he has been teaching media, communication, and film studies to undergraduate and postgraduate students. Assistant Professor Sevcan Sönmez Sevcan Sönmez graduated from Anadolu University, Communication Sciences Faculty in 2006. She finished her PhD at the same university’s Social Sciences Institute with the thesis Traumatic Representations of Turkish Cinema in 2012. A well-known publisher printed this thesis with the name Remembering By Films. She has been working at Yasar University since 2008. Recent Turkish Cinema, European Cinema and video art are her main interest areas. She made documentaries and video works and she is currently producing different projects in this area. Instructor Markus Berger Markus Berger works as full-time instructor at Dokuz Eylül University Fine Arts Faculty in Izmir, teaching 2D, 3D, digital and analogue animation. Born and raised in Austria, he studied “Media Technology and Media Design” and “Digital Arts” at the University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg. His graduation film, a short animated documentary, Replay - Kindheit in der Sandkiste, was screened at several festivals and won an audience award at the ASIFA One Day Animation Festival Vienna in 2014. Student Jury Tiago Amorim, Yasin Dalgiç, Yasin Erda, Halid Ilhan, Clara Jost, Inês Luís, João Martinho, Ceren Yilmaz. Contact - International Student Film Festival is a short film festival organized by the joint collaboration of the Faculty of Communication and Faculty of Arts and Design at Yaşar University (Izmir, Turkey). In its first pilot edition of the festival in October 2014, we have been teaming up with some of the most prestigious film schools around the world (among others London Film School, FAMU, Korea University of the Arts, Zelig Film School) to present a non-competitive showcase of the current student film productions from Europe and beyond. The 2nd and 3rd editions of Contact brought to Izmir the best films by the next generation of filmmakers, inaugurating a new international competition section. The guest film schools invited to Izmir were HFF Munich and LODZ Film School respectively. Other schools selections included Louis Lumiere (Paris, France), Erciyes University (Kayseri, Turkey) and Mimar Sinan FAU (Istanbul, Turkey). For the 4th edition of the Festival (23-27 October 2017), we are developing an exciting program which will include once more an International Short Film Competition and La Femis (Paris, France) as the guest school. Here at Contact we are interested in your stories and the way cinema can convey them: that’s why the main competition will accept a mix of fiction, documentary and animation films, without distinctions of genre. Contact Uluslararası Öğrenci Filmleri Festivali, Yaşar Üniversitesi’nde İletişim Fakültesi ile Sanat ve Tasarım Fakültesi’nin ortak olarak organize ettiği bir film festivalidir. Festivalin pilot uygulaması Ekim 2014’te düzenlendi. İlk festivalimizde Londra Film Okulu, FAMU, Lodz Film Okulu, Kore Ulusal Sanat Üniversitesi ve Zelig Film Okulu gibi dünyanın en prestijli film okullarını bir araya getirerek yarışma dışı film gösterimleri gerçekleştirdik. Contact’ın ikinci yılında ise (19-23 Ekim 2015) festivale uluslararası yarışma bölümü ekleyerek bir kez daha yeni nesil film yönetmenlerini İzmir’de buluşturduk. Contact’ın üçüncü yılında ise 17-21 Ekim 2016 tarihleri arasında İran’dan Endonezya’ya, Çin’den Arjantin’e 1605 öğrenci filminin başvurduğu festivalde yarışma programına seçilen 12 film jüri tarafından değerlendirildi. Jüride ise Oyuncu Meltem Cumbul, Yönetmen ve Yapımcı Ezel Akay, Anadolu Üniversitesi Öğretim üyesi Prof. Dr. Nazmi Ulutak, festivalin bu yılki konuk okulu LODZ’un hocaları Prof. Leszek Dawid ve Prof. Marcin Malatyński yer aldı. Gösterim programındaki okul seçkilerinde Köln Uluslararası Film Okulu (IFS Cologne), Türkiye’den Kadir Has Üniversitesi Radyo Televizyon ve Sinema Bölümü ve Yaşar Üniversitesi’nin öğrenci filmleri yer aldı. Festivalin konuk okula ayrılmış bölümlerinde Lodz Film Okulu öğrenci filmleri seçkisi, yönetmenleriyle söyleşi, Prof. Leszek Dawid ve Prof. Marcin Malatyński’nin seminerleri yer aldı. Festivalin bu yıl bir diğer konuğu da Richard Blank oldu. Goethe Enstitüsü’nün sponsorluğuyla 5 günlük “Hollywood, Goodbye” başlıklı bir workshop düzenlendi. Detaylı bilgi için: website-icon-18 http://contact-isff.yasar.edu.tr/ fb https://www.facebook.com/contactfilmfest/ twitterbird_rgb https://twitter.com/contactfilmfest Öğrenci Filmleri İzleyiciyle Buluşuyor Yaşar Üniversitesi tarafından düzenlenen Contact 5. Uluslararası Öğrenci Filmleri Festivali, dünyanın farklı sinema okullarında yapılmış öğrenci filmlerini bir araya getirecek. Yeni nesil sinemacıları İzmir’de buluşturan festival kapsamında, sektör temsilcileri, Portekiz’in kökleri 1830’lara dayanan dünyaca ünlü sinema okulu Lizbon Sinema ve Tiyatro Yüksekokulundan akademisyenler, öğrenci ve sinemaseverlerle buluşacak. Yaşar Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi ile Sanat ve Tasarım Fakültesinin işbirliğiyle düzenlenen Contact 5. Uluslararası Öğrenci Filmleri Festivali ve Öğrenci Filmleri Yarışması, önümüzdeki hafta Selçuk Yaşar Kampusunda gerçekleştirilecek. Direktörlüklerini Prof. Dr. Nazlı Bayram ile Prof. Dr. Şefik Güngör’ün yaptığı yarışmaya, İngiltere’den Fransa’ya, Arjantin’den Tayland’a kadar birçok ülkedeki sinema okulundan bin 671 film başvurdu. Prof. Dr. Nazlı Bayram, Prof. Dr. Şefik Güngör, Doç. Dr. Çağrı İnceoğlu, Dr. Sevcan Sönmez ve Markus Berger’den oluşan ön jürinin elemesinden geçerek finale kalan filmler, Portekizli akademisyenler Prof. Andre Almeida, Prof. Luis Fonseca, yönetmenler Nurhan Özsoy, Engin Erden ve Barış Çorak’tan oluşan Festival Jürisi önünde yarışacak. Kurmaca, belgesel, deneysel ve animasyon dallarında 11 ülkeden 13 yönetmenin filmleri finale kaldı. Bu 13 film, “En iyi film, en iyi senaryo, Böcek Yapım ödülleri” ile öğrenci jürisinin seçeceği en iyi film ödülü için yarışacak. 22 Ekim Pazartesi günü açılışı yapılacak festivalin bu yılki konuğu Portekiz’den. Her yıl tanınmış bir film okulunu konuk eden festivalin, bu yılki konuğu, kökleri 1830’lara kadar uzanan, şimdiye dek Portekiz sinemasına birçok ünlü yönetmen ve teknik eleman yetiştiren Lizbon Sinema ve Tiyatro Yüksekokulu. Okulun öğretim üyeleri Prof. Andre Almeida ve Prof. Luis Fonseca öğrencilere yönelik ustalık sınıfları yürütecek. Atila Akkaş, Engin Erden, Barış Çorak, Atila Akkaş, Oytun Orgül de seminerler verecek. Bu yıl festivale toplam 11 farklı sinema okulunun öğrencileri katılıyor. Contact Uluslararası Öğrenci Filmleri Festivalinin Yaşar Üniversitesi açısından önemine değinen Rektör Prof. Dr. Cemali Dinçer, “Öğrencilerimiz, festival sayesinde hem uluslararası bir sanatsal ve akademik ortamdan yararlanacak hem de bu süre içerisinde gerçekleşecek ustalık sınıfları ve seminerlerde, yaparak öğrenme felsefemize uygun olanaklar elde edecek” diye konuştu. Festival, 26 Ekim Cuma akşamı yapılacak ödül töreni ile kapanacak. 21 Ekim 2018