Istanbul Gelisim University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Radio, Television and Cinema Department's Lecturer Kerem Yükseloğlu has started working on his new short film project. Lecturer Kerem Yükseloğlu, who previously won the Short Film Production Award and the Flod Color Award at the 5th Esenler Film Festival with his short film project Tonight is Different from the Others, has now taken his place among the projects that have won the Short Film Production Support granted by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, General Directorate of Cinema.
Yükseloğlu stated that this support made the entire team very happy during this period when it was very difficult to find funds to make a short film and complete a film.
“This Support Will Make a Great Contribution to the Project, both Materially and Spiritually”
This Night is Different from the Others focuses on the time spent by two characters who meet as a result of a traffic accident on a deserted road while waiting for a tow truck. While these two characters, who are between life and death, get to know each other, they also act with the feeling of insecurity that the new world brings. Yükseloğlu added that the key words of his stories are night, darkness, deserted roads, death, time and waiting, and stated that it was interesting for him to focus on two characters who had to wait for a while in a period when everything flows quickly and everything is scattered from here to there without roots.
“Although I do not want to reflect my mood, which oscillates between a relief similar to the peace felt when waking up to the morning of the most terrifying dreams and the disappointment created by the morning alarm that ends a very beautiful dream, in the works I have been doing and writing recently. There is a similar ebb and flow in the atmosphere of This Night is Different from the Others.” Yükseloğlu added that he wrote the first draft of the story at the 61st Golden Orange Film Festival and that he and Perihan Taş Öz prepared the final version after working together. Yükseloğlu stated that Koray Sevindi, with whom he had worked for ten years during the fundraising process and established dialogues on production, stepped in as a producer and that this support made a great contribution to the project both financially and spiritually.
We congratulate Lecturer Kerem Yükseloğlu and wish him continued success.
