Turkey, a rare country where all sports are in the same geographical area.
A country where many international sports organizations have been held.
İstanbul, the city where civilizations and continents meet
The city where all participants will be hosted free of charge. 2012 European Capital of Sport. Art, history and cultural paradise.
1st International FICTS İstanbul Sports Film Festival
Ficts Film Festival,which is a World-class sports, cinema and television championships, is in our country now. In İstanbul, between the dates 23-25 September 2011
Jury of the festival comes together...
From FICTS Federation: Great support to our country’s, Turkish sports’ and festival’s promotion.
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Deadline for participation date: August 30, 2011
A New Sports Documentary for Turkish Sports
For the European Youth Olympic Games - held in Trabzon - , a documentary consisted of 15 programs, is being preperated by Director Can Saraçoğlu and his team .As the importance of the sports documentary increase in Turkey, the quality of the films increase as well. The Turkish sports has launhed big projects in recent years.The Turkish sports put it’s signature under big projects. The winned sucesses dynamise the Turkish sports as well as the international organizations. Within this rising progress, the televivisions and media have important tasks. Introducing The Turkis Sport at the highest level and it base on the efficient and quality prodution.The documentary prepared by the Saraçoğlu Production with a 21-man team in HD-format, via high-tech equipment.will be show too in the International Sports Film Festival and the other International Festivals.The Director, Can Saraçoğlu said: I participated to many international and national sports organizations with my team but Trabzon has a separate beautiy. Beyond being a sports city, it has a magnificant nature and history. The venues are quite modern, the people are very friendly and the landscape is wonderful. Namely, Trabzon is ready. I would like to thank especially to the General Co-ordinator, Nihat Doker and to all the team and I wish success during their intensive, exhausting but so exciting journey.
OLYMPIAN BARCELONA: ON PODIUM TV, CINEMA AND SPORT
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Barcelona (Spain). Second edition of “BCN Sports Film - Barcelona International FICTS Festival” From left: Juli Pernas Director Fundació Barcelona Olímpica, Alejandro Blanco President Spanish Olympic Committee, Prof. Franco Ascani FICTS President, Gabriel Arranz i Herreo Gerent Institut Barcelona Esports |
The video “Hugo Koblet: pédaleur de charme” (winner of the Giro d’Italia in 1950) - directed by Daniel Von Aarburg and produced by Maximage Filmproduktion GmbH (Switzerland) - was the winner to the second edition of the “BCN Sports Film - Barcellona International FICTS Festival”. The Festival - organised in the framework of the Worldwide Championship of Cinema and Sport Television “World FICTS Challenge” - by the Fundació Barcelona Olímpica in collaboration with Ajuntament de Barcelona Institut Barcelona Esport and Nikita Distribution - was finish with the delivery of the awards at the “Museu Olimpic i de l'Esport Joan Antoni Samaranch”. During the “Ward Ceremony” - to which were taken part prestigious personalities of sport and cinema - the FICTS president Prof. Franco Ascani was awarded with the “Excellence Guirlande d’Honneur” the President of the Spanish Olympic Committee Dr Alejandro Blanco.
Carme Mas, President of Federació Catalana de Ciclisme, on behalf of the winner film, took the “Amfora Ciutat de Barcelona” from Maite Fandos, Councillor at Ajuntament de Barcelona. “Special Award” of the Jury was delivered to the video “Nostalgia en la mesa 8” (Toma 78 - Argentina) directed by Andy Muschietti. The winners of the “BCN Sports Film - Barcellona International FICTS Festival” - chosen among 79 videos coming from 20 Countries - will participate to the Worldwide Selection that will take place to Milano (Italy) from 28th October - 2nd November. The full list of the winners of “BCN Sports Film” is available at linkwww.sportmoviestv.com/
Success of participation and of contents has recorded the Workshop “Financing of sports programming: private and public sources” organised in collaboration with ESPN Emea (coordinator Esther Calatayud, organizer Barbara Destefanis). The 23 people present to the itinerant Workshop - to which were taken part qualified personalities of the cinema and sport field - have focused on analysing the different potential sources of financing (private or institutional) available to producers, look at the new opportunities and challenges brought about by the new technologies and learn more about the target audience of this type of product. The FICTS President Prof. Franco Ascani - in his introductive report - has focused, among the other, on the functioning of the market of cine-television rights, the procedures of bargaining rights, the impact of the new technologies, the request of “ready-made” contents, etc. (take a look the full report). The Workshop of Barcelona was the first of four appointments that will follow in Turkey (on 24th September) in the framework of the “1st Istanbul International FICTS Festival” organized by Can Saracoglu, with topic “Discovering a new market for the sports rights across Europe, Middle East, Asia”. The third in Italy (on 30th October) during “Sport Movies & Tv - Milano International FICTS Festival” where - in occasion of the FICTS Worldwide Congress- will be discussed the situation and proposals of the previous meetings and the last one in Qatar (on 12th November) with the analysis of the Programme for 2012 of the field.
The FICTS President Prof. Ascani - during his stay in Cataluña - has outlined together with Dr Juli Pernas Director of Fundació Barcelona Olímpica and the President of the Spanish Olympic Committee Dr Alejandro Blanco, the action lines of the next edition of “BCN Sports Film - Barcellona International FICTS Festival” that expected - among the other the celebration of “twenty-year loan” of Olympian Barcelona (1912 - 2012) and the “centenary” of the Spanish Olympic Committee that will be held in Madrid on 12th December 2012.
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THE SPIRIT OF OLYMPISM AT THIS FESTIVAL
The world's most prestigious sports festival is in Turkey now.
The festival, organized by the FICTS (Uluslararası Spor Filmleri Federasyonu) tarafından düzenlenen festival 23-25 Eylül 2011 tarihlerinde İstanbul'da düzenleniyor. FICTS (International Federation of Sports Films), will be held in İstanbul between the dates 23-25 September 2011.
THE FESTIVAL ENTHUSIASM IN İSTANBUL
İstanbul is selected as the 2012 European Capital of Sports . To perform this important task, we organize this festival in İstanbul, supporting Turkish sports and art.
At the same time, this festival in which the world's leading sports TV channels will take part, will provide an opportunity for the presentation of İstanbul 2012 Sports Capital.
FESTIVAL PREPARATIONS CONTINUE AT FULL STEAM
Preparations of the Festival Committee continue at full steam. The committee, firstly participated to the overseas eliminations performed within the FICTS begins preparatory works as of June. Evaluation of the films, the festival preparations and the organization are progressing rapidly. Tüm paydaşlar ve komite tam bir TAKIM OYUNU sergiliyor. All stakeholders and the committee show a complete “TEAM GAME”
