Anna Lindh Foundation

Mugla Mediterranean Documentary Festival (Meddoc)

National Network

Türkiye

Address

Prof. Dr. Orhan Ersek Sok. 66/2 34367 Tesvikiye Istanbul/ Turkey

Country

Turkey

City

Istanbul

Street address 2

Prof. Dr. Orhan Ersek Sok. 66/2 34367 Tesvikiye

Mobile Phone

+90 533 593 68 03

Telephone

+90 212 231 39 32

Telephone (other)

+90 533 772 08 13

E-Mail

selda@vtr.com.tr

E-Mail (2)

info@vtr.com.tr

Year of Establishment

2008

Contact Person1

Selda Salman

Contact Person 2

Ebru Seremetli

Organisation Type

Non-Governmental Organization

Fields of Activity

Arts

General Information

1. Mugla Mediterranean Documentary Festival organizes documentary festival annualy in Mugla. It also organizes panel meetings and workhops during the festival and presents a video library for the audience. 4 people are working for the festival whole year round. 2. Orhanizational support of Babel Platform; financial support of Municipality of Mugla and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and funds and sponsorships. 3. same as above 4. Specials documentary sections, DVD Lİbrary, panel meetings, workshops 5. Babel Platform, Municipality of Mugla, and Association of Documentary Filmmakers

Mission and Objectives

-improving the legislation in the field of cinema, -providing support systems for documentaries, -creating a documentary audience, -supporting Turkish documentary films to be screened in TV channels, -including TV channels in production and support processes, -encouraging cinema students to determine documentary filmmaking as a professional career, -integrating Turkish documentary market with international market -creating a documentary film market in the long term. -presenting different cultures, social, historical and political facts of different countries and therefore to support the tolerance between cultures.

Main Projects / Activities

Besides documentary screenings following activities would be organized: Special sections: special sections will be focus on one subjest and/or coutry documenatries Production workshop: Present the basic information on production and co-production in the Mediterranean basin. DVD library: DVD library includes all documentary films submitted to the festival. Besides professionals, DVD library is available for the individual screenings for the audience. Panel meetings: Panel meetings is organized in order to provide deep information on the issues that combines life and documentary films. Professionals, academicians, researchers, film critics will be invited as spokesmen. Technical workshop: Festival will host a technical workshop every year in order to provide technical knowledge about different technical stages of documentary filmmaking.