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> Subject: New Turkish Cinema in Europe
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> NEW TURKISH CINEMA IN EUROPE
> Panel Discussion
> 5 December at Abney Hall, Stoke Newington, Church Street
>
> Organised by the London Turkish Film Festival, in collaboration with the
> Transcultural Research Unit, Goldsmiths College and the Rio Cinema.
>
> We would like to invite you to the panel discussion, convened by the
> London Turkish Film Festival. The panel - New Turkish Cinema in Europe -
> seeks to
> introduce fresh perspectives on Turkish cinema, introducing new films from
> Turkey to the moving image establishment in Britain. The panel will bring
> together writers and critics from the British film and media scene with
> filmmakers, producers and film critics from Turkey. It will create an
> excellent opportunity to discuss new developments in Turkish cinema.
>
> There are a great variety of films being produced in Turkey, ranging from
> blockbusters to auteur films and documentaries. And, although many of
> these new Turkish films have been very successful in Turkey, breaking box
> office records, they have been overlooked by mainstream film critics in
> Britain. Recently, some of these new era films have had premieres in
> London's West End, and what became apparent is that there is a weak
> knowledge base when it comes to analysing and writing about contemporary
> Turkish films. We find that there is very little awareness of the changing
> context of Turkish cinema production and culture. Consequently, among the
> British reviews of new Turkish cinema, we find a relative lack of
> awareness: either there is the expectation that Turkish films should
> continue in the style of Yol, or there is an attempt to fit them into the
> category of world cinema' (arty, non-English language exotica). The aim of
> the panel, then, is to raise awareness in Britain about the new generation
> of Turkish films, and to draw attention to what is new and different in
> contemporary Turkish cinema. Our hope is that this will, in time,
> translate into new audiences coming to see contemporary work from Turkey.
>
> Programme and the Organisation of the Panel Discussion
>
> The panel is organised by London Turkish Film Festival, in collaboration
> with Transcultural Research Unit at Goldsmiths College, and the Rio
> Cinema. The panel discussion will take place on 5 December 2004 at Abney
> Public Hall, in Stoke Newington Church Street, as part of the London
> Turkish Film Festival. There will be two sessions of panel discussion, and
> also film screenings. See the attached document for the draft programme.
> The panel presentations include discussions of the new developments in
> Turkish cinema, including the success of blockbusters, the development of
> critical filmmaking, the emergence of a variety of new genres from science
> fiction to the avant-garde, the increasing internationalisation of Turkish
> cinema, and the redrawing of the Turkish cinema map to include such
> diverse
> locations as Western and South Eastern Europe. Speakers include film
> directors, film critics, actors and actresses from Turkey, film critics
> and academics specialising on Turkish cinema from the US and film writers
> and distributors from the UK.
>
> The event will coincide with the 12th London Turkish Film Festival, and
> participants will therefore have the opportunity to see some of the films
> being exhibited at the Festival. The festival starts on the 3rd of
> December, and for more information on the festival and also for the
> programme of the panel discussion, please refer to
> www.riocinema.ndirect.co.uk.
>
> The panel discussion will coincide with the opening of a new exhibition,
> FRAGMENTS FROM THE PAST: The cinema in the lives of London's Turkish
> speaking communities This is a multi-media exhibition capturing the
> practices and pleasures of going to the cinema amongst the capital's
> Turkish speaking communities. Through interviews, photographs, video shots
> and film archives, the exhibition reconstructs the role of the cinema as a
> cultural institution, both in framing memories of home, and adapting to
> life in London.
>
>
> Vedide Kaymak
> Director of London Turkish Film Festival
> Rio Cinema
>
>
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