International Eurasia Film Festival
International Eurasia Film Festival (or Antalya Film Festival) is a film festival that takes place annually in Antalya, Turkey in autumn. More than 200 films of every genre, length and format from different countries all over the world are screened as a part of the whole event. The festival is divided into different sections, each with its own unique, conceptual profile where the Competition section accepts films from Europe and Asia.
History
Introduced for the first time in 2005 within the frame of 42nd Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, the International Eurasia Film Festival achieved a great success and gained its individual character as an acclaimed film festival.
Awards
International Eurasia Competition awards
The International Eurasia Film Competition section is reserved for a maximum of twelve full length fiction feature films produced or directed by European or Asian filmmakers. In case of a co-production, one of the co-producers must be European or Asian.
Five to seven personalities from the world of cinema and culture form the international jury, which awards two prizes: A prize for the "Best Picture" in amount of US$75.000 and a prize for the "Best Director" in amount of $25.000.
Eurasia Film Critics' prize
The jury consisting of five to seven expert film critics from European and Asian countries awards a prize of $15,000 to the producer of the best film.
NETPAC award
Script Development Fund award
Established in 2007 at the 3rd International Eurasia Festival and titled the "Co-Production Script Development Award", this incentive award aims to encourage co-productions, to extend support to the processes of script authoring and script doctoring, to contribute to the promotion of the traditions of living and thought of Turkey to the world, to assist making Turkey's natural plateaus available to the international film industry and to be useful in attracting the international cinema capital to Turkey. The prize amounts to 25.000 YTL.