Ömer Atay Producer
Turkish Cinema with a New Identity
Turkey has a natural set environment considering its geographic structure, climate and cultural diversity. This variety and richness can provide all visual material needed in the broad field of cinema.
In the late years, the progress in the film industry in countries such as Czech Republic, Argentina, South Africa and Morocco, who became popular by the western cinema, can be explained by these countries’ abilities to feed the visual needs for cinematography in every aspect by having suitable geographic conditions, climate and culture. Like wise Turkey has every quality to become a new platform for the World Cinema.
Turkish cinema has awoken from its deep and long sleep, reconstructed with a new identity. The new directors educated in a reconstructed Turkish Cinema with a different point of view started to reflect the rich Turkish culture in their pictures. The locations, human relations and cross cultures created in their stories have moved the Turkish cinema to a significant position in the international platform
Turkey is becoming very engrossing for the world considering the colorful picture it paints with its diversity in culture, family structure, beliefs and behaviors, all varying from east to west and composing one solid cosmopolitan country.
Despite the fact that Turkey is richly qualified to provide every need for the film industry in the geographic cultural and climate sense, it is also qualified to provide studios, post production companies, laboratories and any technical equipment in world wide standards. The latest growth of the advertising and tv commercial business has also supported the technical improvement of film industry and took its technical standards to a higher level. Turkey now gives every type of film production service to both national and international companies.