Festival Director
Başak Emre
Art Director
Ahmet Boyacıoğlu
Festival Advisor
Doç. Dr. Ahmet Gürata
Programme
Başak Emre, Ahmet Boyacıoğlu, Kurtuluş Özyazıcı, Elif Boyacıoğlu
Consultants
Freddy Olsson, Pınar Evrenosoğlu, Doç. Dr. Ersoy Soydan
Festival Poster
Behiç Ak
Basın İlişkileri
Nika Digital
Social Media Management
Medya GaGa (Özge Gönenç)
Basılı Malzemeler Editörü
Kansu Ekin Tanca
Festival Assistant
Yağmur Aksoy
Hospitality
Deniz Yıldızeli
Graphic Design
Ferhat Çelik
Sergi Koordinasyonu
Yağmur Aksoy
Çocuk Filmleri Koordinasyonu
Şebnem Aktolga
Technical Coordinator
Gürkan Büyükturan
Film Screenings Coordinator
Burak Taylan Yılmaz
DCP Operatörü
Levent Elmas
Subtitling
Muhittin Yakışıklı, Saba Nur Gözüm
Catalogue Translations
Cemre Akkartal, Kansu Ekin Tanca, Lucy Wood, Serdar Aygün
Film Translations
Demet Kenar, Melek Memiş, Muhittin Yakışıklı, Nermin Saatçioğlu, Selen Akhuy, Serdar Aygün, Yaprak Erdem
Gönüllü Koordinasyonu
Serap Çabuk, Burak Akkoç
Volunteers
Ahmet Emre, Aykan Kayım, Ceren Yağmur Yıldırım, Elif Ertürk, Elif Tektaş, İlayda Dağ, İrem Tulgaroğlu, Kerem İnceler, Mert Can, Merve Uçgun, Namık Affak, Oğul Aşkın, K.Ü. Medya ve İletişim Topluluğu Gönüllüleri
Promotion Film
Punctum Creative Productions (Selda Taşkın, Abdullah Özdem, M. Zelal Eryıldırım)
About the Festival
The Festival on Wheels first took to the road in 1995 with a mission to present outstanding examples of cinema to film enthusiasts in different cities around Turkey and to introduce Turkish cinema to the rest of the world. Before the festival wheels were oiled and turning, people’s experience of cinema in the far-flung corners of Turkey was no more than the odd piece of news on television or in the newspaper. In cities without even a movie theatre to speak of, getting to a cinema was a hopeless dream. But wherever the festival set foot, cinemas opened and film after magical film unfolded on screen. And there was soon a loyal and enthusiastic crowd anxiously awaiting the arrival of the festival every autumn; a crowd that spilled out of the four walls of the cinemas. Naturally, the festival wagon carried more than just films…
In the last 23 years, the Festival on Wheels visited Ankara, Artvin, Baku (Azerbaijan), Bursa, Çanakkale, Diyarbakır, Drama (Greece), Edremit, Eskişehir, Gaziantep, İstanbul, İzmir, Kars, Kastamonu, Kayseri, Malatya, Mersin, Ordu, Samsun, Sarajevo (Bosnia Herzegovina), Sinop, Tbilisi (Georgia), Skopje (Macedonia) and Van. The Festival aims to bring the Turkish and foreign filmmakers together, to realize coproductions. The Festival also works on the commercial distribution and TV broadcast of the films in the program of the Festival.
The festival management also endeavours to secure theatrical release or television sales for films in the festival programme. The Festival on Wheels also puts on a programme of workshops to which it invites a number of filmmakers from Turkey and overseas. In the course of these workshops, the young Turkish filmmakers collaborate with their counterparts from abroad to create cinema together.
Festival Team
Ahmet Boyacıoğlu
Başak Emre
Ahmet Gürata
Pınar Evrenosoğlu
Selda Taşkın
Kurtuluş Özyazıcı