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1st HONORABLE MENTION
Başak Özbek
“Sözde Silah-sızlanma”
2nd HONORABLE MENTION
Meltem Cemiloğlu
“SilahlanMA”
3rd HONORABLE MENTION
Şükrü Doğan Lehimler
“Bireysel Silahlanma”
APPRECIATION AWARD
FOR CORPORATE SENSITIVITY
BP Petrolleri A.Ş
Dear Guests,
I would like to thank all of you for attending the awards ceremony for the documentary film contest for this year’s twelfth “Personal Disarmament: Carry the Right to Life”.
This morning in Taksim Square we were at one. We were the voice of those who had died or left crippled as a result of personal armament. We conveyed the missing words of the pain and ache of those who have been harmed by weapons. The silent shoes marched this year, like every year, on the violence brought about by violence. We know that each year our voice will be stronger than the last, and even those who don’t want to hear us will soon have to listen.
Personal armament is one of Turkey’s main social problems. It is a social problem which is being tried to be suppressed by certain segments of the society, who give various excuses. Excuses such as ”Weapons are our culture, manliness has weapons, weapons don’t kill, people kill”...
Personal armament is a lottery of death which can have no excuses. It is a lottery with no winners, it is not known who it will strike and is completely outside the law. With your support we will do everything we can to put an end to this lottery so it can be forgotten in the future, and we will continue to so in the future.
In our first traditional contests organised in 1995, the Umut Foundation, established with the founding goals of “ensuring that our young believe in the supremacy of the law, that they help this process; to ensure that people choose peaceful ways to solve their disagreements; to spread peace and compromise and to ensure the teaching of skills to promote individual development..." looked to art as a means of achieving its goals, tried to spread the messages of our artists and intellectuals who wee see as the society’s opinion leaders to masses through the use of art.
Every piece of work which enters our contests expresses our Foundation’s aims in the general public in the best way possible; it is a contribution to spreading awareness of the cause of personal disarmament.
Since documentaries are the most important means of art in strengthening public memory, leaving a legacy to history from our current lives and understanding the course of history “even if it does not fully recur, it produces resemblances”, we prefer the contest on the theme of “Individual Disarmament: Carry the Right to Life” to be in documentary movie area for 2006.
Our aim was to start a discussion on reasons and results of social violence and individual armament, which increase its existence in our lives each day, through a documentary, by using all scientific, artistic and aesthetic opportunities.
Each contesting film considers a different aspect of individual armament. Despite the fact that they have different themes, they have a unity among themselves and strongly present potential reasons and effects of individual armament.
Since a different aspect of individual disarmament was considered in each film, the jury fell into stress in distributing the prizes. I thank each of rewarded contestants one by one and wish their contributions to our foundation to continue.
This year for the first time in our history an institution was awarded by our jury with appreciation prize based on its institutional sensitiveness on disarmament. I thank BP Petroleum Inc for its patronage in preparation of an educational film titled “Shadow of Gun” which was produced for education of its employees at oil stations and its sensitivity on individual disarmament.
Just before I finish, for their help in the 28 September activities, I wanted to express my great thanks to our Governor Mr. Muammer Güler, the İstanbul Governorship, the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, Beyoğlu Council, the General Directorate of Istanbul Transport, the Association of Documentary Cinemas, As Furniture, Borsa Restaurants and Aklın Aynası Interior Decoration and Design, to which I owe a debt of gratitude for their valuable cooperation and contributions.
I would also like to give my eternal thanks to; members of our cinema industry who show their awareness on individual disarmament with their participations to our contest, the jury who spent a whole day through assessing contesting films, and all of you who show their sensitivity through being here.
For tomorrows full of hope...
Nazire Dedeman
Umut Foundation
Founding President
Umut Foundation Awards handed out
Awards given to the winners of the local film contest organised by the Umut Foundation:
“Personal disarmament; carry the right to life”
The Umut Foundation, which has taken so many important steps on the issue of personal disarmament, organised a series of activities in Taksim Square and at the Ataturk Cultural Centre on Personal Disarmament Day on 28 September.
the Founding President of the Umut Foundation, Nazire Dedeman started the day’s activities with a speech which was followed by the “March of Silent Shoes” in Taksim Square, and later an awards ceremony at the Ataturk Cultural Centre, where awards were given to participants in the local film contest “Personal Disarmament: Carrying the right to life”. The activities, which were carried out in cooperation with the Istanbul Governorship, the leadership of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and the Beyoğlu Council, were attended by leading bureaucrats.
At 11.55 on Thursday, 28 September, those against personal armament, thinking people and those whose lives have been hurt by personal armament protested against personal armament by taking part in the “March of Silent Shoes” with the accompaniment of the Semaver band and Percussion in Taksim Square, placing a pair of shoes or a flower on a red carpet. Following the event, the agenda moved the Ataturk Cultural Centre where awards were given for each of the 12 categories of films in this years film contest on personal disarmament.
Mithat Bereket, Nazire Dedeman, Can Dündar, Uğur Kutay, Sezgin Türk, Prof. Dr. Nazmi Ulutak and Mustafa Ünlü sat on the judges’ panel, which was led by Ümit Kıvanç. The award of highest honour went to the film “so-called disarmament”, directed by Başak Özbek, which won first place. Meltem Cemiloğlu’s film, “(Not) Arming” won the award for second place, followed by Ş. Doğan Lehimler’s “Personal Armament” film. A top prize of YTL 2,500 was given, with YTL 1,500 to the second place runner up and YTL 1,000 to the third place runner up. A separate appreciation award for corporate Sensitivity was also given to BP Turkey for its film on “the shadow of weapons”, to be shown at its petrol stations with the purpose of educating its staff.
Umut Foundation
The Foundation was founded with the aim of contributing towards building a society of responsible and modern people who have a developed awareness of justice and who believe in the supremacy of the law, who can spread a culture of peace and who can work towards finding ways of solving problems which do not involve violence. As part of working towards the Umut Foundation’s aims, various contests are carried out in different branches –statues, photographs, news, cartoons and short films each year under the heading of “Personal Disarmament: Carry the Right to life” with awards for the winners, while education “To be a Responsible Citizen…” is provided and academic work is published. Thanks to the Umut Foundation’s established efforts, it has been appointed as a “consultant” to the Social and Economic Council at the United Nations. The Foundation is proud to be one of only five NGOs in Turkey to carry this status.
