Director Nisan Dağ (COMD ’08) Won Fiction Pitching Prize at Antalya Film Forum

Oct 30, 2017

COMD alumni Nisan Dağ (08) wins Antalya Film Festival’s Industry Forum dedicated to supporting a new generation of Turkish directors with her relationship drama “When I’m Done Dying.” The winning project in the forum’s Feature Pitching Platform is set amid Istanbul’s hip-hop scene. It is about a talented young drug-addicted rapper from Istanbul’s Sulukule historic gipsy quarter who falls tragically for […]

New Book: Adaptation, Awards Culture, and Value of Prestige

Oct 10, 2017

Assist. Prof. Dr. Colleen Kennedy-Karpat has co-edited a new collection of essays titled Adaptation, Awards Culture, and the Value of Prestige, published by Palgrave Macmillan as part of the Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture series. The book explores how different forms of cultural prestige—awards, the canon, and audience engagement, for example—are reflected in adaptations […]

PLAY/PAUSE, FF/REWIND Workshop & Symposium

Sep 27, 2017

PLAY/PAUSE, FF/REWIND Shared Practices & Archaeologies of Media Workshop & Symposium October 2-6, 2017 Location: Bilkent University, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture Celebrating the launch of its Media Archeology Lab, Bilkent University Department of Communication & Design invites you to “Play/Pause, FF/Rewind,” a five-day event on Shared Practices & Archaeologies of Media. The event […]