Participants of the VI International festival of Muslim films pay a visit to the Academy of Management "TISBI"

Turkish delegation participating in the VI Kazan International festival of Muslim films visited the Academy of Management "TISBI" on the day of the festival's opening - September 15, 2010".

Developing the cooperation with the Republic of Turkey in the scientific and academic fields, the Academy of Management "TISBI" regularly receives guests from different Turkish educational and cultural institutions and high schools. 

Mr. Can Ozgun, Director of the Ankara International film festival, Mr. Hayati Tufekcioglu, Director of the Institute of Eurasia at the Istanbul University, and Mr. Faruk Sahin, Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey, visited the Academy on September 15, 2010. The delegation was warmly received by "TISBI" Rector Nella Pruss and Vice rector for International cooperation Liliya Miftakhutdinova.

The principal subject for the discussions became joint work between the Academy of Management "TISBI", as the educational establishment with ten years' experience of training handicapped and hard-of-hearing students, and the Academy of Open Communications in making video school-books for training hard-of-hearing children.

Nella Pruss presented to the visitors the first cartoon film on a sign language. The cartoon film has been sub-titled into Turkish and with support of the Institute of Eurasia at the Istanbul University was presented at the Istanbul film festival in February, 2010.

On having watched the cartoon film itself, Mr. Can Ozgun estimated the importance and necessity of such films and suggested to create similar cartoon film in the Turkish sign language, because it may have the specificity and significant differences as many other sign languages.

According to Mr. Hayati Tufekcioglu, the Istanbul Municipality showed interest in this project and invites the Academy of Management "TISBI" and the Academy of Open Communications to participate in the next film festival in 2011.

Mr. Can Ozgun advanced the opinion to announce a competition of sign language films to invite to cooperation directors, producers and other cinematography workers from the different countries. In his opinion, it will help to draw public attention to the problems of people with different handicaps.

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