The 12th Short Film Script Competition, organized by the Conscious Teachers Association (ÖĞ-DER) Headquarters Promotion Commission with the support of the Ministry of Culture, General Directorate of Cinema, has concluded.
The award ceremony of the competition, whose theme this year is 'Patience and Pain', will be held in Ankara on Saturday.
Commenting on the competition results, ÖĞ-DER Chairman Numan Gökmen said, "We would like to thank everyone who worked hard and participated in our competition with their works on the subject of patience and pain, both in Gaza and other areas of life."
The results of the Short Film Script Competition, organized for the 12th time this year by the Conscious Teachers Association (ÖĞ-DER), have been announced.
The award ceremony of the competition, whose theme this year is 'Patience and Pain', will be held in Ankara on Saturday.
Awards will be given to the 5 winning scripts among citizens who sent their scripts from all over Turkey.
A NICE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE ART WORLD
Making a statement after the results of the competition were announced, ÖĞ-DER Chairman Numan Gökmen pointed out that the theme of the Short Film Script competition, which was held for the 12th time this year, was 'Patience and Pain'.
He underlined that the theme was determined after the February 6 earthquakes.
"There are pains as well as joys in life, such as earthquakes, or the massacres committed by the occupying Israel in Gaza, which is on our agenda right now. Our part here is to be patient and struggle to find solutions to the problems we face. Art is one of our biggest helpers in this struggle. We had determined the theme of the competition, pain and patience, after the earthquakes our country experienced, but while the competition was continuing, the genocide and massacres of the Zionist State of Israel began in Gaza. We saw that this massacre had an impact on our screenwriters, as a matter of fact, it came in scripts about Palestine. I consider this as a good development for the art world. I would like to thank everyone who worked hard and participated in our competition with their works on the subject of patience and pain, both in Gaza and other areas of life," Gökmen said.
THE WORK CALLED 'WHO ARE YOU' CLAIMS FIRST PLACE
Important names from the art world served as jury members in the competition. The jury consisted of four people: cinema critic Ali Burak Cesur, writer-director Nizamettin Kars, director-screenwriter İbrahim Demirkan and teacher Abdurrahman Erbaş.
While the names who participated in the competition and were entitled to receive awards were determined, Meryem Gemicioğlu, who participated from Van, won the first prize with her work titled 'Who Are You'.
Gökmen Küçüktaşdemir from İzmir won the second prize with his script called 'Bağ', and Osman Çakır from Kırşehir won the third prize with his script called 'Gasil'.
Süleyman Çetinkaya from Mersin won the Ahmet Uluçay special award with his script titled 'Can Anyone Hear My Voice?'
Cihan Yıldırım from Istanbul won the Ayşe Şasa special award with his script titled 'My Mother Turned Ten'.
The award ceremony of the competition will be held on Saturday at EBS Hotel in Ankara.