Film Competition to Win €10,000 from the International Turkish Radio & TV Documentary Awards

Film Freeway opened the application for the International Turkish Radio & TV Documentary Awards which is an annual documentary festival organized by Turkish Radio & TV Corporation. Its aim is to support the amateur and professional documentary filmmakers, to enable audiences to view documentary films from various countries and to form the groundwork where documentary film-makers will meet and exchange their ideas. The 12th edition of the event will be held in June in İstanbul and it presents various workshops, special events, and meetings as well as the competition which is open to all documentary filmmakers eligible to enter. 

Eligibility criteria:

1. The participation is free.
2. Documentary films may enter the competition. Works apart from this genre, such as TV programs, promotional films, etc., which do not have any artistic concerns, and films that cannot be evaluated as being within the concept of cinematic art shall not be accepted in the competition.
3. Films which are completely fictional or of the animated genre etc., and have elements of the documentary genre in them to support the narrative cannot enter the competition; however, dramatic documentaries and docu-dramas which are entirely documentary films but include fictional, experimental or animated elements in them to support the narrative may enter the competition.
4. Documentaries that are produced in compliance with the technical format of TV broadcasting (mxf, mov, mp4, etc., full HD) may enter the competition.
5. Documentaries produced after January 01, 2019, may enter the competition. Documentaries that entered TRT Documentary Awards on previous occasions cannot enter this year's edition of the competition.
6. Documentary films that previously entered national or international competitions, other than TRT Documentary Awards, and received awards can enter this competition.
7. Documentaries produced as a “Series” may enter this competition with only one episode that reflects the series as a whole.
8. Participants may enter the competition with more than one documentary film in the same category.
9. Documentary films that do not comply with the current broadcasting laws of the Republic of Turkey and with the European Convention on Trans-frontier Television, as well as documentaries that offend any nation, country, and religion or spread propaganda, support violence, war, drug use or pornography and praise any form of fanaticism, and contain promotional elements, cannot enter the competition. If such films enter the competition, they will not be evaluated.

Prizes:

1. The Best Documentary Award: €10,000
2. Special Prize: €7,500
3. Special Prize: €5,000 

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