EMU Communication Faculty, Radio-TV, Cinema and Journalism Department 3rd Fone Film Festival

Eastern Mediterranean University Communication Faculty, Radio-TV, Cinema and Journalism Department 

is finalising the preparations for Fone Film Festival taking place between 4 and 5 June 2015.

Taking place under the sponsorship of Turkish Halk Bank, the theme of this year’s festival is “A Matter of Mine”. Short movies to be shot with digital devices will appear under two distinct categories as high school and +18. Submission date of the short films is 11 May 2015.

As it was during the previous years, the festival will be offering awards to winning works. The award for the best film in the international category has been set as 4000 TL, for the second best film  2500 TL and the third one, 1500 TL. Additionally, the best movie in the high schools category  will be awarded 2000 TL, the second one 1500 TL and the third will receive 1000 TL.

Further information about the festival may be obtained at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fonefilmfest or http://fonefilmfest.emu.edu.tr.

The first and second Fone Film Festivals also took place under the sponsorship of Halk Bank. The theme of the first festival was “Mobile Democracy” and the second was “Body Politics” for +18 and for high school category “Buddy Stories”. The winning film of the first festival was Arman Arian’s “Citizen Worm” and the second festival was Ahmad Albakri’s “Borderless”.

Credit: EMU