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Festival script award Trabzon, Turkey
Trabzon Film Festivali Öğrenci Kısa Film Senaryo Yarışması: Karadeniz'i Sen Anlat! (Trabzon Film Festival Student Short Film Screenplay Competition)
Run by Trabzon Büyükşehir Belediyesi (Trabzon Metropolitan Municipality), 2nd Trabzon Film Festival
University students in the eastern Black Sea area can send a short script about the region's food and nature to this contest at the second Trabzon Film Festival. Entries run 5 to 15 pages in Turkish, a three-person jury picks one winner in December 2026, and that writer receives 20,000 TL.
Deadline Oct 21, 2026 (closes tomorrow)
The listed dates have passed. We check the organizer's page every day and add the next dates once they are published.
Dates
| Deadline | Date | Fee |
|---|---|---|
| Applications close | Oct 21, 2026 | none stated |
The festival runs Dec 15 to 20, 2026 in Trabzon.
Deadlines are as the organizer states them. Check the time zone on the official page.
At a glance
- Entry fee
- FreeThe regulation and the municipality's announcement mention no fee
- Formats
- Short
- Language
- Turkish
- Where
- Trabzon, Turkey (enter online)
- Who can apply
- Only students actively enrolled (associate, bachelor's or master's) at ten universities in northeastern Turkey: Artvin Çoruh, Atatürk, Avrasya, Bayburt, Giresun, Gümüşhane, Karadeniz Teknik, Ordu, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Trabzon. Every co-writer has to prove student status. The script must not already be filmed, scheduled for shooting or sold.
- Prizes
- A single cash award of 20,000 TL goes to one script. It cannot be split between scripts; co-writers divide it in the shares they declared on the form. There is no second or third place.
Its site names no judges and no past winners. It is listed because it is free to enter.
What to send
- Length
- 5 to 15 pages, cover page not counted
- File
- Title page
- Not stated (the cover page is left out of the page count)
- Also asked for
- A4, Times New Roman 12, American screenplay layout. Upload PDFs through the festival's Google Form: the script, a logline of at most two sentences, a synopsis of at most one page, a one-page writer or director statement, and a student certificate issued in the last 30 days. Adaptations need a notarized permission from the rights holder.
Need your pages in standard screenplay format first? The free screenplay formatter lays them out and saves a PDF.
What it gives besides money
Finalists are named on November 6, 2026, and a three-person main jury chosen by the festival decides during the December festival. The rules make no promise of production; if the winning script is ever shot, the festival logo has to appear in the credits and publicity.
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