{"id":10927,"date":"2013-11-23T12:16:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T09:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/?p=10927"},"modified":"2013-11-23T12:16:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T09:16:16","slug":"welcome-yankee-wins-prizes-in-greece-and-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/2013\/11\/welcome-yankee-wins-prizes-in-greece-and-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Welcome Yankee&#8221; Wins Prizes in Greece and Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Welcome Yankee&#8221;, a short film about a Chechen refugee couple, was presented at international film festivals in Turkey and Greece; after these successful presentations, the film won two new prizes.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 7th edition of Thessaloniki&#8217;s International Short Film Festival (TISFF) took place from October 20-26, 2013, and &#8220;Welcome Yankee&#8221; was in the festival alongside hundreds of films from all over the world. This week the award winners were announced and &#8220;Welcome Yankee&#8221; was selected as the winner of the &#8220;Cinematic Achievement Award&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The film was also presented in Turkey at the Ayvalik International Film Festival which took place on November 17. &#8220;Welcome Yankee&#8221; won the award for &#8220;best director&#8221; by the jury.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With these new prizes, &#8220;Welcome Yankee&#8221; has now won three awards in as many weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Trailer of Welcome Yankee:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7794RDuxriI?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>*Text was written by Waynakh Online and edited by Michael Capobianco<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Welcome Yankee&#8221;, a short film about a Chechen refugee couple, was presented at international film festivals in Turkey and Greece; after these successful presentations, the film won two new prizes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"views":262,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10929,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927\/revisions\/10929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}