{"id":271,"date":"2013-05-18T14:31:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T14:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/turkishfilmchannel.com\/blog\/?p=271"},"modified":"2013-08-27T09:43:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T09:43:18","slug":"bir-avuc-cesur-insan-a-few-brave-people-gets-top-award-at-adieff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/bir-avuc-cesur-insan-a-few-brave-people-gets-top-award-at-adieff\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish film gets top award at ADIEFF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruya Arzu Koksal`s documentary <strong>Bir Avu\u00e7 Cesur \u0130nsan<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>A Few Brave People<\/em>)\u00a0returns with top honor from Abu Dhabi International Environmental Film Festival. Following her Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival special jury award winner <strong>Ordu`da Bir Argonot<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>An Argonaut in Ordu<\/em>)\u00a0(2010), Bir Avu\u00e7 Cesur \u0130nsan\u00a0had premiered at 2011 !f Istanbul Independent Film Festival. Most recent from Koksal`s environmentally<strong><em><\/em><\/strong> themed filmography, Bir Avu\u00e7 Cesur \u0130nsan, describes the struggle of the residents of the eastern Black Sea region of Turkey, against the dam projects targeting the area`s rivers. The rivers in the area to be rented to private companies by the government to construct hydroelectric stations, resulting in substantial damage to the environment. As some of the projects get close to completion, people of the neighboring towns stand up to prevent government from selling their rivers to corporations. This film chronicles their lives over this 3 year period, depicting their story of courage which for the most part, has been shunned by the media.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/37370680\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Bir Avu&ccedil; Cesur \u0130nsan \/ A Few Brave People\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruya Arzu Koksal`s documentary Bir Avu\u00e7 Cesur \u0130nsan\u00a0(A Few Brave People)\u00a0returns with top honor from Abu Dhabi International Environmental Film Festival. Following her Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival special jury award winner Ordu`da Bir Argonot\u00a0(An Argonaut in Ordu)\u00a0(2010), Bir Avu\u00e7 Cesur \u0130nsan\u00a0had premiered at 2011 !f Istanbul Independent Film Festival. Most recent from Koksal`s environmentally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15,65,155],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-adieff","tag-documentary","tag-ruya-arzu-koksal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}