Our festival is a short film competition that aims to create a global awareness to the emigration problems and all cinemamakers and cinema fans to transfer their “Intercultural Dialogue and Immigration” themed films to big screen. Festival will include seminars, panels, film screenings and workshops. In the competition section fiction, animation, documentary, and experimental short films with the “Intercultural Dialogue and Immigration” theme will compete and the directors will be supported with various awards.
This festival is a project of the non-profit organization connected to Junior Chamber International, “Worldwide Federation of Young Leaders and Entrepreneurs” Istanbul branch which is accepted as a constituent organization by other federations including Council of Europe and Euro Chambers as well as United Nation. JCI, being established in 1910, is the world’s 3rd biggest non-governmental organization with more than 200,000 members in 124 countries.
JCI ‹stanbul Crossroads International Short Film Competition and Festival is accepted to be supporting and making a contribution to the presentation of Turkey by Ministry of Culture and has been selected “World’s Most Successful Public Relations Program” and “Europe’s Most Successful Publication” in JCI 2007 World Congress.

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2009 FESTIVAL TEAM:

Festival Director
BULENT DORUKER
Member of JCI Istanbul & Digital Film Center Country Manager
doruker@dfc.com.tr

Jury Committee
AYLA AKYOL
Digital Film Academy - General Coordinator
aakyol@dfa.com.tr

Candidacy Committee
DERIN KIVANER
Digital Film Academy - Assistant
derin@dfa.com.tr

Organization Committee
OZGUL TOPKAN

PR / Medya Komitesi
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Sponsorship Committee
DENIZ KIVANER

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