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173. EURIMAGES FUNDING FOR TURKISH PRODUCTIONS JULY 2002

Çamur by Dervis Zaimoglu (TR/CY)
EURIMAGES-Funding: 250 000 €
Co producers:MARATHON FILCILIK(TR) / ARTIMAGES(CY)

Le Finestre di Fronte by Ferzan Ozpetek (IT/TR)
EURIMAGES-Funding: 400 000 €
Co producers:R & C PRODUZIONI (IT) / CLAP PRODUCAO DE FILMES (PT) / A.F.S. FILM(TR)

Gönderilmemis mektuplar by Yusuf Kurçenli (TR)
EURIMAGES-Funding: 190 000 €
Co producers:FILM F FILMCILIK (TR) / TIVOLI-FILMPRODUCTIONS (HU)

Yazi Tura (Heads or Tails)Ugur Yucel (TR)
EURIMAGES-Funding:320 000 €
Co producers: CAN SANATSAL ETKINLIKLER LTD(TR) / CINEGRAM (GR)

Waiting for the Clouds by Yesim Ustaoglu (TR)
EURIMAGES-Funding: 350 000 €
Co-Producers:SILKROAD PRODUCTION(FR) / FLYING MOON FILMPRODUKTION (DE) / IDEEFIXE PRODUCTIONS (UK)

Zamansiz Ölüm by Ömer kavur (TR)
EURIMAGES-Funding:250 000 €
Co producers:ALFA FILM (TR) /OBJEKTIV FILMSTUDIO (HU)


172. MATRIX RELOADED BREAKS TURKISH BOX OFFICE RECORD
The Matrix Reloaded's debut was the largest in Turkish film history. It averaged an amazing $2,591 on just 136 prints (on 264 screens). It sold 456,112 tickets.
171. DISTANT/UZAK BY N. B. CEYLAN LANDS MORE DISTRIBUTION (MORE INFORMATION PENDING)

Turkish competition film Distant(Uzak) secured itself a US release with a sale to New Yorker Films, the specialist releasing operation that is now under new management.

New Yorker Films
16 West 61st Street New York, NY 10023
Phone: 212-247-6110 FAX: 212-307-7855

The italian rights for Distant are secured by Lady Film.

Lady Film - Claudia Bedogni
Tel 06 8840424 - 8842062 Fax: 06 8417043 - ladyfilm@ladyfilm.it
Via F.lli Ruspoli 8-00198 Roma


170. TURKISH BOX OFFICE
TURKISH BOX OFFICE 2003
Week Top 20 Total Change #1 Picture (Turkish Films in Bold)
May 16-18 $ 1,990,524 +232%

The Matrix Reloaded

May 9-11 $ 600,061 -27% X2
May 2-4 $ 827,583 +7% X2
April 25-27 $ 776,745 -28% O Simdi Asker
April 18-20 $ 1,081,090 +8% O Simdi Asker
April 11-13 $ 999,773 -16% O Simdi Asker
April 4-6 $ 1,183,262 -9% O Simdi Asker
March 28-30 $ 1,302,059 +2% O Simdi Asker
March 21-23 $ 1,279,272 +36% O Simdi Asker
March 14-16 $ 942,393 -5% O Simdi Asker
March 7-9
$ 987,341 -15% The Ring
Feb 21-23 $ 807,644 -45% Rus Gelin
Feb 14-16 $ 1,477,043 +54% Rus Gelin
Feb 7-9 $ 956,614 -16% Catch Me If You Can
Jan 31-Feb 2 $ 1,144,529 +14% Catch Me If You Can
Jan 24-26 $ 1,005,105 +12% Ghost Ship
Jan 17-19 $ 897,449 +11% Die Another Day
Jan 10-12 $ 804,914 -1% Analyze That
Jan 3-5 $ 812,325 -12% The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Feb 28-Mar 2 $ 1,167,061 +45% The Ring
Dec 27-29 $ 919,343 -30.0% The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Dec 20-22 $ 1,312,417 +80.0% The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Dec 13-15 $ 729,150 -52.0% Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets
Dec 6-8 $ 1,515,592 +44.0% Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets
Nov 29-Dec 1 $ 1,051,532 +68.0% Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets
Nov 22-24 $ 625,364 -22.0% Red Dragon
Nov 15-17 $ 805,527 +3.0% Red Dragon
Nov 8-10 $ 782,681 +70.0% Road to Perdition
Nov 1-3 $ 420,211 -30.0% Signs
Oct 25-27 $ 655,529 -26.0% Signs
Oct 18-20 $ 880,701 +71% Signs
Oct 11-13 $ 525,880 -20.0% Minority Report
Oct 4-6 $ 657,631 -17.8% Minority Report
Sept 27-29 $ 799,853 +38.2% Minority Report
Sept 20-22 $ 578,860
XXX
Sept 6-8 $ 462,482 +5.0% Unfaithful
Aug 30-Sept 1 $ 440,617 -8.3% Blade II
Aug 23-25 $ 480,547 +14.7% Blade II
Aug 16-18 $ 418,959 +39.6% Stuart Little 2
Aug 9-11 $ 300,157 +2.5% Long Time Dead
Aug 2-4 $ 292,834 -11.8% Long Time Dead
July 26-28 $ 331,851 +32.0% Men in Black II
July 19-21 $ 253,134 -4.6% The Sweetest Thing
July 12-14 $ 265,405 -6.6% Spider-Man
July 5-7 $ 284,064 +3.5% Spider-Man
June 28-30 $ 274,409 -19.1% Spider-Man
June 21-23 $ 339,111 -49.0% Spider-Man
June 14-16 $ 664,643
Spider-Man
June 7-9 $ 262,726 -25.9% Panic Room
May 31-June 2 $ 359,469
Panic Room

Source: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/turkey/

Provided by compiled by Tolga AKINCI: tolga.akinci@birfilm.com


169. DISTANT/UZAK REVIEW FILES (PENDING)
168. DISTANT/UZAK BY NURI BILGE CEYLAN WINS TWO AWARDS AT CANNES ( MORE INFO PENDING)
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's latest film 'Uzak' won the Grand Jury Prize at the 56th Cannes Film Festival. As well, its two main actors Muzaffer Ozdemir and Mehmet Emin Toprak jointly won the Best Actor Award, an honor that goes posthumously to Toprak, Ceylan's cousin, who died in a car accident the day after learning ''Uzak'' had been selected for Cannes.
He dedicated his prize to fellow Turkish director Yilmaz Guney who won the Palme in 1982. "He died in Paris," Ceylan said, "in suffering, never to see his country again."

SEE ALSO: WWW.NBCFILM.COM
167. SILK ROAD FILM FESTIVAL | 2004 WASHINGTON DC
SEE: WWW.ADAXIAL.NET
166. WAITING FOR CLOUDS BY YESIM USTAOGLU
Behrooz Hashemian, co-producer of Michael Winterbottom's Berlin competition film In This World, is preparing a new film that looks tailor-made for Berlin director Dieter Kosslick's favoured themes of tolerance, diversity and multi-cultural understanding.

Waiting For The Clouds, by Turkish director Yesim Ustaoglu (director of Journey To The Sun) centres around a Turkish family which takes in a Greek orphan threatened with deportation. Ustaoglu will shoot the picture with largely unknown actors in March and April around the Turkish Black Sea and in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Through his Paris-based company Silkroad Production, Hashemian has put together a panoply of public and private funding to complete the Euros 2.3m budget.

Structured as a French-German-UK-Turkish-Greek co-production Clouds involves finance from the UK's Film Council, a mini-treaty between France and Germany, Eurimages and the Hubert Bals Foundation. The film also won development from the Sundance Lab and was pre-sold for Euros 130,000 to NHK of Japan. Multinational European broadcaster Arte is also on board. Celluloid Dreams has come on board to handle international sales.

"We are not trying to change the world, but aim to open the eyes of the world to some of the cultures of a region in which it is too easy to see only conflict," says Hashemian, who worked for over a decade in the US.

Silkroad is also actively preparing three other pictures: road movie Ghahrekhaneh from Iran, Turkish director Kutlug Attaman's Kitchen Of Roses and Jeffolah, a picture set in a school on the Iranian-Pakistani border for religious activists and infiltrators.

REPORTED BY Patrick Frater in Berlin 13 February 2003 04:05

Waiting for the CloudsYesim Ustaoglu (TR)
EURIMAGES-Funding: 350 000 €
Co-Producers:SILKROAD PRODUCTION(FR) / FLYING MOON FILMPRODUKTION (DE) / IDEEFIXE PRODUCTIONS (UK)

Yesim Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award Winners!
NHK and Sundance Institute announced the winners of 2003 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award on 25 January at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
Winners are:
Mai Tominaga-100% Pure Wool (Japan)
Yesim Ustaoglu-WAITING FOR THE CLOUDS (Europe)
Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll-WHISKY (Latin America)
Michael Kang-THE MOTEL (the United States)

Yesim Ustaoglu (writer/director), WAITING FOR THE CLOUDS: Born in Sarikamis, in Eastern Turkey, in 1960, she studied architecture and went on to work as a journalist for various art and cinema magazines.Yesim Ustaoglu received international recognition for her 1999 film Journey to the Sun, which received the Blue Angel Award for Best European Film and the Peace Prize at the Berlin Film Festival. The moving story of a courageous friendship undaunted by political cruelty, Journey to the Sun swept the Istanbul Festival by winning Best Film, Best Director, the FIPRESCI Prize and the Audience Award. Ustaoglu began her career with several award-winning short films, and made her feature film debut with 1994's The Trace (IZ). The film was presented at numerous international venues, including Moscow and Gotenburg. WAITINGFOR THE CLOUDS is a tragic story about a woman who, after hiding her true identity from the Turkish authorities for 50 years, has her past revealed.


Telling the Turkish story from the inside

Last year, director Yesim Ustaoglu saw all the documentaries made in the 1970s by Krzysztof Kieslowski. At the time, she was looking for a director of photography to shoot her new feature, Journey to the Sun(the first Turkish film in over a decade to be shown in competition in Berlin). Who better than Jacek Petrycki, Kieslowski's old cameraman? "He liked the script and he was very excited to work on the film," Ustaoglu says of the veteran cinematographer.

The idea for Journey to the Sun came to Ustaoglu after she read newspaper articles about villages laid waste in south-eastern Turkey. As a result of the devastation, thousands of immigrants were forced to head to the big city, where they faced discrimination on a daily basis.
The film, which charts the friendship of two outsiders who meet in Istanbul, features some shocking scenes of police brutality. To westerners, such scenes may rekindle memories of Midnight Express, but Ustaoglu insists no meaningful comparison can be made between the two films. "This is a film from the inside. When I saw Alan Parker's film, I could tell it was a fairytale - nothing was real."
Ustaoglu's background is in architecture. Her fascination with buildings and cityscapes is evident in the film's breathtaking, street-eye view of the vast, seething metropolis of Istanbul. "It's a huge city and it's getting bigger all the time. It's so colourful and dynamic," she says.
In a way, she says, architecture and film-making go together. "It's a similar discipline. When you design a building, you have to know who will use it. You have to think about the lighting, the acoustics, the colour."
None of Ustaoglu's actors are full-time professionals. She cast them because they were true to life. (For example, Nazmi Qiriz is himself a Kurd. Many of his own experiences match closely with those of the character he plays.)
What does she anticipate German audiences will make of Journey to the Sun? "Of course, the subject is more sensitive if you know the history, but it's very open too. It's about identity."
Germany, she points out, has a big Kurdish and Turkish community. "So I hope they will understand what I was trying to get at."

Source: Interview by Geoffrey Macnab (Berlin 1999)

JOURNEY TO SUN World Sales :
IFR C/o Celluloid Dreams 24, rue Lamartine, F-75009 Paris, France Tel: 33 1 49 7003 70 Fax: 33 1 49 70 03 71


165. LIST OF TURKISH FILMS AT ISTANBUL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (PENDING)
164. ISTANBUL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (PENDING)
Produced by Nesteren Davutoglu; Directed by Yusuf Kurçenli; Cinematography by: Mehmet Aksin Cast: Turkan Soray, Kadir Inanir.
Synopsis: A married woman with children finds her first love interest 25 years later. Filming started in Amasya December 2002
with Euro 140,000 subsidy from Eurimages. Yesim Ustaoglu's Waiting for Clouds/Bulutlari beklerken also received Euro 240,000 from the same fund.

Contact :IMAJ YAPIM LTD. STI. Gazeteciler Site. No:A-11/6 Levent/IST. Tel: (212) 269 92 62

for a full list of other Istanbul studios see: http://www.telerehber.com/scf02ist.htm


163. EUROPEAN BOX OFFICE OF TURKISH PRODUCTIONS

Film / Country / Year / Directors / Admissions EUR15 / (since 1996) Details...

162. FILM FESTIVALS IN TURKEY More Details...

Ankara (May): The Flying Broom - Ankara Women's Film Festival
Ankara (October): Festival Of European Films on Wheels

Ankara (November/December): Ankara International Film Festival
Antalya (September): Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival

Istanbul (April): Istanbul International Film Festival

Istanbul (April): Istanbul International Short Film Festival

Izmir (April): Izmir International Short Film Festival

161. IN MEMORIAM / HURREM ERMAN (1913 -2003)
Turkish film producer and importer Hurrem Erman passed away on March 10, 2003. Born in Selanik (1913) he studied at the Istanbul University Faculty of Law and later the Department of Philosophy. He opened Erman Sinemasi, a movie theater in Adapazari (1932). Founded Metal Film with his uncle Tahsin Piyale for film distribution. He later founded "Erman Film" (1946) and produced his first film, Damga/Branded directed by Seyfi Havaeri. During this period he also imported films. In 1953 He married Gelengul Yayfuroglu a Turkish beauty queen.

Istanbul International Film Festival honored him with a lifetime award in 1990

Selected filmography: Vurun Kahpeye/Strike the Whore, Gelin/The Bride, Dügün/ The Wedding, Diyet/Blood Money, Gökçe Çiçek/Gökçe, The Flower (all directed by Lütfi Ö.Akad), Deli Yusuf/Crazy Yusuf (Atif Yilmaz).

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160. SUSUZ YAZ (1964) BY METIN ERKSAN, THE LAST TURKISH FEATURE FILM TO BE HONERED WITH A GOLDEN BEAR AT BERLINALE
Suzuz Directors Trockener Sommer /Türkei (1964) The film was based on a Necati Cumali short story. Read (In Turkish)


159. ATOM EGOYAN'S ARARAT US BOX OFFICE

Ararat's total admissions in France: 82 904 / in US: 255 162

Released in US November 15, 2002
Total US Gross $1,693,000
US Distributor Miramax
Production Budget $15,500,000
Directors

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Weekend Chart Record
Date Rank Gross % Change Theaters Per Theater Total Gross
Days

27
$211,130

6
$35,188 $211,130
3
24
$190,543
-9.75%
14
$13,610 $521,765
10
25
$251,750
+32.12%
33
$7,629 $922,524
17
31
$131,421
-47.80%
42
$3,129 $1,144,095
24
36
$81,665
-37.86%
37
$2,207 $1,293,312
31
47
$43,509
-46.72%
27
$1,611 $1,378,159
38
52
$36,021
-17.21%
16
$2,251 $1,459,463
45
68
$13,158
-63.47%
10
$1,316 $1,510,307
52
62
$11,905
-9.52%
11
$1,082 $1,533,583
59
71
$6,983
-41.34%
9
$776 $1,547,792
66
96
$3,535
-49.38%
14
$253 $1,554,566
73

88
$8,700
+146.11%
6
$1,450 $1,683,000
80

83
$8,030
-7.70%
8
$1,004 $1,693,000
87


158. NEW MINISTER OF CULTURE Doç. Dr. HÜSEYIN ÇELIK OF THE 58. TURKISH GOVERNMENT
Huseyin Born in the town of Gürpinar of the Eastern Turkish province of Van , in 1959. Doç. Dr. HÜSEYIN ÇELIK graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Turkish Literature, in 1983. Assistant at Yüzüncü Yil University. Became an assistant professor in 1997. Member of Parliement of Van from DYP in 1999 elections. Resigned from DYP and became one of the founders of AKP (Justice and Development Party). Van deputy after the November 03, 2002 national elections. Author of 11 published books. Knows English. Married with three children.
Doç. Dr. HÜSEYIN ÇELIK Web Site

157. MINISTRY OF CULTURE SEEKS OPINIONS AND COMMENTS ON TURK SINEMA KURUMU BY JANUARY 27, 2003
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156. KURDISH FILM FESTIVALS IN RIO CINEMA LONDON, ENGLAND

Rio Cinema presented the 2nd London Kurdish Film Festival, organised in partnership with the Kurdish community. Following the success of last year’s event, this year the festival expands to two weeks to showcase a variety of feature films, documentaries and shorts, from all over the world, made by Kurdish film makers or about Kurdish issues. There were also numerous discussions with film makers, workshops and a panel. Highlights includign: Nino Jacusso’s ESCAPE TO PARADISE, Roland Suso Richter’s A HANDFUL OF GRASS, Handan Ipekci’s HEJAR, Jano Rosebiani’s JIHAN, Hiner Saleem’s LONG LIVE THE BRIDE AND THE LIBERATION OF KURDISTAN, Michael Winterbottom and Tony Grisoni’s M1187511, Bahman Ghobadi’s MAROONED IN IRAQ, Umit Elci’s MEM AND ZIN, Ibrahim Selman’s A SILENT TRAVELLER, Sahin Gok’s SIYABEND AND XECE, Nizamettin Aric’s A SONG FOR BEKO, Halil Uysal’s TIREJ and Abbas Kiarostami’s THE WIND WILL CARRY US.

107 Kingsland High Street London E8 (corner John Campbell Road) Tel 020 7241 9410 mail@riocinema.org.uk

Jiyan
See Also: Kurdish Film Files |Rio Cinema
155. IN MEMORIAM / MEHMET EMIN TOPRAK (1974- December 02, 2002)

Mehmet

Actor Mehmet Emin Toprak lost his life after a traffic accident in his hometown of Yenice of Canakkale Province. He was recently awarded acting prizes at Antalya and Ankara Film Festivals. Recently married 28 years old actor was famed for the three multi award winning films he did with Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

Filmography

1998 The Town / Kasaba / Directed by: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
1999 Clouds of May / Mayis Sikintisi / Directed by: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
2002 Uzak / Directed by: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Best Supporting Actor (male) / 39. Antalya Golden Orange Festival co-winner with Oktay Kaynarca
Special Jury Prize / 14. Ankara International Film Festival


154. NEW GLOBAL FUNDING INITIATIVE CREATED IN USA
The Global Film Initiative was created to promote cross-cultural understanding through the medium of cinema. Although American film continues to thrive in the global marketplace, developing world filmmaking has suffered from shifting economic conditions in film financing and distribution. As a result, audiences in the United States have been denied the rich cultural lessons these films have to offer.
The Initiative has developed four complementary programs, all involving film from the developing world, to address this situation:

The Granting Program– supports narrative film production in the developing world that is authentic, original and rooted in local cultures. Grants of up to $50,000 are awarded to filmmakers as completion funding for films in production.
The Acquisitions Program– ensures that exceptional finished films produced in the developing world are made available throughout the United States.
The Distribution Program– ensures that the best of developing world cinema is available to be seen on screens throughout the United States. A tour of as many as fifteen films chosen from the Initiative's Granting and Acquisitions programs is launched with a special series each November at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA); the series then travels to leading cultural institutions. After the tour is completed, films continue to be available through the MoMA archive, both as lending copies for continued circulation and preservation copies for continuing research.
The Education Program– broadens understanding of developing world cultures through cinema.

Contact by E-mail: Executive Director Noah Cowan or Devorah DeVries
The Global Film Initiative | 200 Varick, Suite 500A New York, NY 10014 | Tel: (212) 206-7790 | Fax: (212) 206-6828 |


153.RESERVED NEW BOOK BY AGAH OZGUC TURKISH CINEMA WITH POSTERS
152. PROFILE VECDI SAYAR
151. BERLINALE 53. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Feb 06 - Feb 16, 2003)
The 53rd Berlin International Film Festival will be held from February 6 - 16, 2003.
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150. FILMS OF TURKISH INTEREST AT IFFR 32. International Film Festival Rotterdam (Jan 22 - Feb 2, 2003)




Main programme includes Remake (Remake) by Dino Mustafic (Bosnia-Herzegovina/France/Turkey, 2003) Tragic stories of father and son are interwoven with refinement. With an interval of fifty years in between, experience the start of a war in Sarajevo.
Dirty Pretty Things by Stephen Frears (United Kingdom, 2002) in which A Nigerian nightporter and a Turkish chambermaid, Senay(Audrey Tautou from Amélie) discover that the hotel where they work is used for the trade in human organs.
[based upon] TRUE STORIES section screens Sarajevo Guided Tours by Isa Rosenberger (Austria, 2002) a film that is playful and ironic about the severely damaged and traumatised city of Sarajevo.
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Aruna IFFR 2003's VPRO Tiger Award Jury will consist of French film-maker Olivier Assayas (a.o. DEMON LOVER), Chad film-maker Mahamat Saleh Haroun (ABOUNA), former Mostra-director Alberto Barbera, Thai production company Cinemasia co-director Duangkamol Limcharoen (JAN DARA, MON-RAK TRANSISTOR) and Swiss industry veteran Christa Saredi. The Jury will announce the three winning films during the Award Ceremony on Friday January 31, 2003.

The Jury of the Amnesty International - DOEN Award will choose its winning film from ten titles on human rights within the IFFR 2003 programme. The jury members will be former minister Jan Pronk (The Netherlands), producer Mike Downey (UK) and film-makers Nathalie Alonso Casale (The Netherlands/Spain), Mario Bechis (Italy/Chile) and Ulrike Ottinger (Germany).
Contact:phone: +31 10 890 90 90 | fax:+31 10 890 90 91 | e-mail: press@ filmfestivalrotterdam.com

149. 14. ANKARA FILM FESTIVAL

148. AWARDS OF 39th GOLDEN ORANGE FILM FESTIVAL


Best Film: Uzak(Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Best Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Uzak)
Best Actor (Male): Firat Tanis (Sir Çocuklari)

Best Actor (Female): Meral Oguz (Martilar Açken)
Best Supporting Actor (Male): Oktay Kaynarca (Deli Yürek) and Mehmet Emin Toprak (Uzak)
Best Supporting Actor (Female): Sema Atalay (Yesil Isik)
Best Screenplay: Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Uzak)
Best Cinematography: Tevfik Senol (Deli Yürek) and Erdal Kahraman (Sari Güller)
Best Art Direction: Selda Ülgenciler (Sir Çocuklari / Sari Güller)
Best Editing: Kemalettin Osmanli (Deli Yürek)
Best Film Music: Mazlum Çimen (Gönlümdeki Kösk Olmasa)
Best Film Lab: Fono Film (Yesil Isik), (Uzak)
Best Sound Effect:
Special Jury Award: Bora Aytekin (Gönlümdeki Kösk Olmasa)
Special Jury Award: Sir Çocuklari
Special Jury Award (Mention): Deli Yürek
Behlul Dal Special Jury Awards: Gönlümdeki Kösk Olmasa
Public Award: Sir Çocuklari
GOLDEN ORANGE FILM FESTIVAL CHRONOLOGY 1964-2002



147. A NEW BOOK ON ASIAN CINEMA INCLUDES A SECTION ON TURKEY BY A. DORSAY


Being & Becoming : The Cinemas of Asia Edited by Aruna Vasudev, Latika Padgaonkar and Rashmi Doraiswamy.New Delhi, Macmillan, 2002, xii, 580 p., photographs, $39. ISBN 0333-93820-8.

Launched during the recent CINEFAN The 4th Cinemaya Festival of Asian Cinema in New Delhi 19 - 28 July, 2002, Being & Becoming : The Cinemas of Asia was authored by twenty-nine eminent historians and film critics, almost all of them from the countries they are writing about, these essays bring together the history and the current trends in the cinemas of thirty countries of Asia—from Japan to India to Turkey and Kazakhstan to Indonesia.

The section "Turkey: on its own terms" was contributed by Atilla Dorsay.

In May2002 France has conferred its top award for culture on Indian editor Aruna Vasudev. Vasudev, who is the director and chief editor of Cinemaya — The Asian Film Quarterly, has been awarded the “Chevalier des Arts et Lettres” or the Knight of the Order of the Arts and Letters.

“Since the launch of Cinemaya in 1988, she has been constantly struggling to get the various Asian national productions be known on the international scene. Thanks to her, the cinema of India — the leading producer of films worldwide — is being discovered in France and many European countries,” a statement from the French embassy here said.

A fluent speaker of French, Vasudev is also an active member of the Indo-French Initiative Forum and has been contributing to cooperation between the two countries in the field of cinema. She was also responsible for the creation of NETPAC, or the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema, of which Cinemaya is the official journal. With representatives throughout Asia and the world, NETPAC is the only pan-Asian film cultural organization involving critics, filmmakers, festival organizers and curators, distributors and exhibitors, and film educators. In 1999, Vasudev launched the Cinefan festival dedicated to Asian films and movies related to Asia from the West.

Aruna

Aruna Vasudev
President & Founder
Editor, Cinemaya: The Asian Film Quarterly , New Delhi
E-mail: cinemaya@nde.vsnl.net.in








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