Turkey Film Fest goes Eurasian.

A who's who of the globe's most promising film talent will be on hand to celebrate the silver screen at the 44th annual Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, which will take place October 19-28, 2007. The event, jointly organized by the Foundation of Culture and Arts in Antalya (Antalya Kultur Sanat Vakfi, AKSAV) and the Foundation of Turkish Cinema and Audiovisual Culture (Tiirldye Sinema ve Audiovisuel Kultur Vakfi, TURSAK), will also host the third edition of the International Eurasia Film Festival--which started out as the international section of Antalya but has fast become a major attraction for filmmakers from all over the world.

Considered the Golden Orange Film Fest's "international gateway to the world," the Eurasia event will open with Ang Lee's Lust, Caution, the latest film from the Oscar-winning director.

Prizes will be awarded by a jury of film critics from European and Asian countries. A new feature of this year's Eurasia festival will be a special jury prize from the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC).

This year, Antalya has created the Script Development Fund, a new resource with the goal of encouraging Turkish co-production initiatives. TURSAK (the festival's organizing committee) asked that co-producers (at least one of whom must be of Turkish origin) send in applications as well as screenplay treatments to the TURSAK Foundation in order to be considered. The top five projects will be chosen by an electoral body from the Antalya Festival, and will be announced on October 10. The producers and scriptwriters of the chosen projects will then be invited to the festival to make presentations about their scripts and explain why their movie should win the $20,000 pot.

Eurasia will also include an homage to recently passed directors Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni. The festival will honor the pair's impressive contributions to the film canon by showcasing some of their most famous works.