4. Contact Uluslararası Öğrenci Filmleri Festivali
23 - 27 Ekim 2017
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Yaşar Üniversitesi
Üniversite Caddesi, No:35-37, Ağaçlı Yol, Bornova, İzmir PK. 35100
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The international jury for the 2017 edition of Contact Student Film Festival awarded the following official prizes
Yaşar University Award 2017: Grand Prix for the Best Short Film
Fly My Love
Eli Salameh
Lebanese University
Lebanon, 2016, 15.50
Sony Award
Drush
Nils Janssens
LUCA School of Arts
Belgium, 2017, 3.19
Böcek Yapım Award
7 Centimeters
Metehan Şereflioğlu
Dokuz Eylül University
Turkey, 2016, 16.30
Senedit Award for Best Story
Lockjaw
Kordian Kadziela
University of Silesia
Poland, 2016, 30.00
Student Audience Award
Sex with a Monk and Other Stories
Sounak Kar
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute
India, 2017, 30.55
Jury
Yves Thomas
Writer and Director
Currently the co-director of screenwriting department of La Fémis, Yves Thomas finished his higher education in business
and literature. He has directed and written for television and cinema. He is the screenwriter for feature films such as
Patricia Mazuy’s 2016 film Paul Sanchez est revenue!, and also Saint-Cyr (2010) and Touche pas aux soviets (2012). In
addition to writing, he was consultant for numerous scripts. Yves Thomas was also a theater administrator, taught
semiology at University Paris XIII and was editor / designer for several advertising agencies.
Melis Behlil
Academician and Film Critic
Melis Behlil is an Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and the Chair of Radio, Television and Cinema Department at
Kadir Has University in Istanbul. She has also been a Research Affiliate at Stockholm University’s Institute of Turkish
Studies and a Visiting Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition to teaching and other academic
duties, she writes film reviews for various publications, co-hosts a weekly radio show on Açik Radyo, and is a member of
the Turkish Film Critics Association.
Oguz Peri
Producer
Graduated from Anadolu University’s Faculty of Communication Sciences. Since 1992, he has been engaged in many
commercials and feature film productions. In 2007, he collaborated with Ömer Faruk Sorak in Böcek Yapim, where he
pursues his career as a producer. He is a member of The Commercial Film Producers Association Board. He also has been
giving production courses in different communication faculties for the last couple of years.
Ceylan Özgün Özçelik
Director, Writer and Producer
Born in 1980, in Turkey. Özçelik studied law at Marmara University in Istanbul, yet never practiced. Instead, she
attended photography, cinematography, production and filmmaking workshops and took Adrienne Weiss’ Directing Actors
classes. She produced and wrote for various culture-art TV programmes. She had been writing film reviews for online and
print media for fourteen years. Her book of interviews and media memoirs called Dikkat Çekim Var! was published in 2013.
In between 2005-2011, she was behind the scenes editing cinema award videos, production company trailers and
documentaries. Her short films have screened at various festivals and her feature film debut KAYGI/INFLAME made its
world premiere at the 67. Berlinale Panorama and won Luna Gamechanger Award at South by Southwest (SXSW). Özçelik is
currently developing her second feature 18+, which is a dark comedy about women and violence.
Nilay Erdönmez
Actor, Director
Born in 1986 in Istanbul, Erdönmez completed both her undergraduate and master’s degree in Mimar Sinan University,
majoring in theater. She has been a part of many theater productions both as an actor and as director. With her first on
camera performance in Gözetleme Kulesi in 2012, she won the best-actress award in many national and international
festivals. She has also appeared in television series Bir Zamanlar Osmanli: Kiyam, Sevdaluk, and Istanbullu Gelin. Her
latest films are Bütün Saadetler Mümkündür and Mezarci. She is performing solo on stage in Garaj Istanbul this year as
well, with one of last season’s favorite plays, Hafizasini Kaybeden Müzeden Bir Traktöre Mektuplar.
After careful consideration our programming team have nominated the following 12 finalists in the 2017 international
student film competition:
7 Centimeters
Metehan Şereflioğlu
Dokuz Eylül University
Turkey, 2016, 16.30
Bolivia Strange Symphony
Jose David Apel
ISCAA Superior Institute of Film and Audiovisual Arts of Santa Fe
Argentina, 2016, 22.58
Dilemma Of Who to Love
Alper Tunel
Dokuz Eylül University
Turkey, 2017, 16.48
Drush
Nils Janssens
LUCA School of Arts
Belgium, 2017, 3.19
Firak
Okan Temizarabacı
Anadolu University
Turkey, 2016, 13.37
Fly My Love
Eli Salameh
Lebanese University
Lebanon, 2016, 15.50
Goodnight Everybuds
Benedikt Hummel
Film Academy Baden-Württemberg
Germany, 2017, 6.00
Harry
Haoran Zhou
Tongji University
China, 2017, 7.01
Lockjaw
Kordian Kadziela
University of Silesia
Poland, 2016, 30.00
Maltempo
Alan Damien Borodovsky
University of Buenos Aires
Argentina, 2016, 21.40
Ruthless
Chris Pender
Swinburne University of Technology
Australia, 2016, 15.28
Sex with a Monk and Other Stories
Sounak Kar
Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute
India, 2017, 30.55
Contact - International Student Film Festival - Yaşar University
4th edition October 23-27, 2017
How to submit
Each applicant must sign up for free and submit their film through the following website.
The final deadline for submission is August 1st 2017.
Contact - International Student Film Festival proudly accepts entries via FilmFreeway.com, the world’s best online
submissions platform. FilmFreeway offers free HD online screeners, Vimeo and YouTube integration, and more.
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.
We therefore invite all current university students of film and media and students that will graduate in the academic
year 2016-2017 to submit their films.
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.
An out-of-competition programme will feature screenings and masterclasses by international guests and film schools,
special presentation and exhibitions, workshops and talks.