Next year, the film “The Patron” about the life of Azerbaijani philanthropist and oil magnate Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev will be shown. According to azernews, executive director of the Baku media center Orman Aliyev made this remark at a summit held during the 3rd Korkut Ata Turkic World film festival. The series will consist of eight one-hour episodes. Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev has invested in many important projects, including the construction of the first textile factory and fisheries. He provided funding for the first Azerbaijan national theater (1883), the first muslim school for girls (1896), and the first technical school (1911), as well as the entire cost of the construction of what would later become the Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet theater. He also helped to solve the city’s water problem by funding the shollar water pipeline (1916). Orman Aliyev said in his address that the shooting of the film “Hadrut, you are free” has already begun. Next month, the film will be shown to the public. In conjunction with the proclamation of Azerbaijan’s Shusha city as the cultural capital of the turkic world in 2023, the culture ministry, Heydar Aliyev center, the international organization of turkic culture (Turksoy), the state film agency, and baku media center are co-organizing the Korkut Ata Turkic World film festival. Since 2021, the film festival has been held. The first edition of the festival took place in Istanbul, Turkiye. For the second time in Bursa, the film festival was held. The third Korkut Ata Turkic World film festival will be held in Azerbaijan. 32 feature, documentary, and animated films are included in the festival’s schedule: Azerbaijan, Turkiye, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Gagauzia (Moldova), Tatarstan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Chuvashia, Karachay-Cherkessia, Tuva, and Bashkortostan (Russia).
SOURCE: AZERNEWS