Turkey's
First Ever
VFX Awards The 1st EFEKT VFX Awards Ceremony, featuring categories such as Outstanding Visual Effects in Feature Film, Outstanding Visual Effects in TV Series Episode, and Outstanding Visual Effects in Student Project, will take place at Atlas 1948.
Jury Members
First EFEKT VFX Awards
Outstanding Visual Effects
in a Feature Film
1000 Volt Post Prodüksiyon Şirketi
"Atatürk 1"Visual Effects Honorary Mention
in a Feature Film
Genius Park
"Zaferin Rengi"Outstanding VFX in a Series Episode
1000 Volt Post Prodüksiyon Şirketi
"Yaratılan"VFX Honorary Mention in a Series Episode
Mojo FX
“Testament: The Story of Moses”Outstanding Visual Effects in a
Student Project Award
Mehmet Yavuz Şen
"66 Milyon Yıllık Bekleyiş"Off Category Honorary Mention
Sinan Demirtaş
“Balance”International Visionary in VFX Award
Sara Bennett
National VFX Lifetime Achievement Award
Hilmi Güver
International Distinguished Contribution Award
Roxane Fechner
Categories
Category 1
Outstanding Visual Effectsin a Feature Film
The Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Feature Film is presented to honor the success of visual effects in being a visible, indispensable, and integral part of the story in a photorealistic film.
Premiere Dates: January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2024
Qualifying Projects: A Photoreal, Visual-Effects-Driven Feature
Feature Distribution Requirements:
To be eligible in a FEATURE category, an entry must have been marketed and exhibited to a public audience via at least ONE of these distribution methods:
- a theater for a paying public audience
- broadcast television to at least 50% of the total potential viewers in the original release country
- pay/basic cable transmissions (including by way of example so-called basic cable, pay cable, pay television and interactive cable)
- broadband to markets representing at least 50% or more of households in the original release country
- recognized web-based/OTT broadcasters who commission content (e.g. Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube Originals, Apple TV+).
Category 2
Outstanding VFXin a Series Episode
Outstanding VFX in a Series Episode Award is presented to honor the overall achievement of visual effects within a single episode of a photoreal series or mini-series, where the visual effects are a visible, essential, and integral part of the story and play a significant and active role in the episode.
Kategori 3
Outstanding Visual Effectsin a Student Project
The Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project Award is presented to honor exceptional achievement in visual effects in a student project. A Student Project is defined as any project created by a student or a group of students enrolled in a university and completed between January 1, 2023, and December 31, 2024. The project may be animated or photorealistic, linear or interactive, 2D or 3D, but it must be submitted according to the following technical specifications. Submissions must not include team information, school logos, or names.
Completion Dates: January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2024
Qualifying Projects: Photoreal or Animated Student Projects.
Additional Information: Titles, motion graphics and logos are not eligible.
The purpose of the Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project Award is to help student VFX artists develop their skills before transitioning into the professional VFX industry. Therefore, EFEKT will not accept submissions from students with significant professional experience in the film, television, or gaming industries in the field of visual effects or animation unless faculty advisors provide a petition explaining that such professional work does not violate the above purpose. “Significant professional experience” is defined as, but not limited to, internships lasting more than six months at a visual effects or animation company. Faculty members or other professionals may only act as advisors and cannot take a direct role in the creation of the submission. EFEKT reserves the right to question and disqualify student submissions that appear to have benefited from inappropriate professional creative involvement at any stage of the nomination and voting process.
Competition Applications
How to Apply?
All Submissions may only be made through this EFEKT Awards website by following the directions below.
- Designate ONE person to be your primary “go to” person for all EFEKT Awards matters. This person is the official Submitter. They must sign the Submission Form.
- The submission form will be available starting on or about January 15, 2025 on this site.
- Click on “Submit an Entry” below
- After clicking “Submit an Entry”, click on “Create New Submission.” Instructions will take you through the complete registration and submission process and will guide you on how to prepare your materials for upload.
- Give each entry a distinct project title (preferably the project’s main title) and entry name on both the entry form and on the slate (e.g., Main Title of Project: xxxxxx; Name of Clip: xxxxxx).
- • When you have completed the Submission Form, click ”Submit”. A unique Submission Number will be automatically issued. At the same time, slates will be automatically generated for your viewing materials.
- One submission per form. Do not combine multiple entries on a single submission form
- Making a note of the official Submission Number. Do not lose this login information or share it with an unauthorized individual. You will need this information later if you must make changes to your submission.
- Print or Download your completed entry form, have it signed by the appropriate individuals (electronic signatures are acceptable), upload the completed form to the site by the deadline, February 13th, 2025.
- Use the Submission Number in all correspondence relating to your entry.
- • Upload your viewing materials in Submission Format (ProRes LT as specified below), no later than, February 13th, 2025.
Nominees, Submission Forms & Signatures & Contact Person
Submission Forms and Submission Numbers
You must fill out a Submission Form online and obtain a Submission Number to be in the Awards. Complete the form, have it signed (electronic signatures are acceptable), upload the completed form to the site by the deadline, October 31, 2024. List nominees in the order in which they should appear in any announcements or publicity. Make sure the names and email addresses are spelled correctly.
Signatures
Entry forms must be signed by:
- The person submitting the entry (who may or may not be an entrant); and
- The overall project VFX Supervisor (in animated categories, may also be overall project Director or Animation Supervisor); or
- The overall project VFX Producer (in animated categories, should be the Animation Producer).
- In the case of submissions created under the employ of a facility, a member of the facility’s management
The signers acknowledge that all entrants are eligible and agree to follow and be bound by the rules, procedures, and policies of the VES Awards.
In the case of multiple entries from the same submitting organization, instead of signing each individual submission form the overall VFX Supervisor or overall VFX Producer or, in animated categories, the overall Director, Animation Supervisor, or overall Animation Producer (or the equivalent to these job titles) may submit a single signed letter to the Awards Committee covering all of the award submissions they are authorizing. This letter must include each individual Submission Number for which they are signing. To prevent confusion, this letter should be sent to [email protected] simultaneously with the authorized applications.
Contact Person
Please assign one contact person for all your entries. This is the individual (the Submitter) to whom the username and password for uploading your electronic submission will be sent.
This contact person must be available to the Awards Committee during vetting (November through early January) to deal with any potentially disqualifying issues that the Awards Committee may uncover during vetting. They should know where to reach everyone named on the submission in case of questions and who can arrange to re-edit a submission if necessary.
Entry Fee
There is no entry fee.
Awards Ceremony
Turkey's First
VFX AwardsThe 1st EFEKT VFX Awards Ceremony, featuring categories such as Outstanding Visual Effects in Feature Film, Outstanding Visual Effects in TV Series Episode, and Outstanding Visual Effects in Student Project, will take place at Atlas 1948.
International Visionary in VFX Award
Sara BennettMilk VFX
Co-Founder and Creative Director
Sara is one of the founding partners of London-based visual effects company Milk and serves as the Head of 2D Department. Winning the Oscar for Best Visual Effects in 2016 with Ex-Machina and becoming the second woman to receive an award in this field, Sara has worked as a VFX supervisor on major productions such as Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, The Martian, and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, as well as successful TV series like Doctor Who and Sherlock. She has won numerous prestigious awards, including Emmy and BAFTA.
National VFX Lifetime Achievement Award
Hilmi GüverHilmi Güver is one of Turkey’s first visual effects artists.
International Distinguished Contribution Award
Roxane FechnerProducer, Director
Their filmmaking journey began in 1994 in France, initially working in Set Design departments. Later, they joined Post Production and Visual Effects teams for various feature films both in France and internationally. Their 28 years of active experience in the film industry includes a ten-year period at Éclair Laboratories in Paris. During this time, they developed their expertise and proved themselves as an experienced Visual Effects Producer. However, their true passion is storytelling; they have directed eight short film projects to date and are excited about their next project.
