Esef Işık (COMD/'04) and Berk Tokay (COMD/'02), two graduates from the Department of Communications and Design, received awards for their films at the "International Competition - Festival of Students' Performances and Film" held at Shota Rustavelli State University in Tiflis, Georgia. Esef Işık won the best screenplay award for his film "Comic Book," and Berk Tokay won the special nomination of the jury for his film "Heart Stopping."

For his first film, "Comic Book," Esef Işık not only wrote the screenplay but also served as director. The main character of the film is a lonely boy who doesn't like regular books but is devoted to comic books and reads them everywhere: at school, in class, at a park. "It took two months to finish the screenplay of 'Comic Book.' The most important things when you are writing a screenplay are to think in the language of film and to find an interesting ending. That's what I did," says Esef.

He is currently finishing his second film and working on a new screenplay. As for his longer-range plans, the aspiring writer-director states, "I want to work in cinema professionally in the future. I also want to direct my own films because I believe the best director of a film is its screenplay writer."