Video Age International May 2016

Among the buyers (mostly from the Middle East) there was an unexpectedly large contingent of Latin Americans, some of whom, like Luis Memtala, flew from La Paz, Bolivia. Others, like Brigid Olën, came from as far away as Cape Town, South Africa, and Tae Jeong Kim and Taehyun Lee from South Korea. From the U.S. , there were buyers from both New York City and Los Angeles. Also large was the Turkish contingent, which included seven TRT sales staff members, headed by Meltem Tümtürk Akyol, as well as programmers, cast members and producers, and representatives of other Turkish TV channels, like Melis Hamamcioglu of FOX TV, for an additional 50 people. The five-day event, which ended May 1, also offered seminars with analyst Eylem Yanardagoglu from the Kadir Has University in Istanbul, who explained the “Attraction of Turkish Series Abroad,” and with cast members of two dramas: Resurrection and Flinta . TRT took advantage of the Latin American participation to also explore the “Impact of TurkishSeriesinLatinAmerica,” by a Todo TV reporter from Uruguay, Alejandro Sanchez. Recreational activities included a folk show from a local cultural center, a boat trip and visits to nearby historical sites. 4 The folkloristic show O ver 50 buyers from 23 countries converged in Antalya on April 26 for TRT’s Screening Days. These were the Turkish state TV network’s first company screenings and the first for the country’s TV sector. Others will certainly follow; one from Global Agency has already been announced for June 2-5 in Bodrum, a resort town in the Aegean Sea. In any case, TRT Screening Days managed to score the first success. In the resort town of Antalya, on Turkey’s Mediterranean coasts, TRT offered a catalog of 30 TV movies and four feature films. This was in addition to 35 dramas (in Turkey, this is the preferred word for telenovela) and five miniseries. Also buyers could have viewed 72 documentaries, 54 children’s, 16 science and 16 religious programs, all in two screening rooms, a ballroom and a press room, set up at Rixos Downtown, a five-star hotel near the city’s center. TRT’s content sales staff World May 2016 V I D E O A G E TRT’s Screening Days Has Three Firsts The Latin American contingent Meet the Cast Members Conference aaaMay_Issue1_2016_R10.indd 4 5/5/16 2:42 PM