Talent First Feature LAB 2025
Salça (working title)
Director: Burak Oguz Saguner
90’ Fiction
Genre: Drama, Social, Thriller
Country of Production: Turkey, Australia
Estimated budget: € 400 000
Covered budget: € 50 000
Looking for: Producer, Co-producer, Fund
Logline
A Turkish proverb warns – don’t be SALÇA to others’ business, but will a 19-year-old female
chef battling an aversion to meat defy her family’s culinary legacy and intervene in neighbours’
toxic relationship or be a bystander?
Burak Oguz Saguner completed his Postgraduate Degree in
Cinematography at the Australian Film TV and Radio School
in 2014. His works won numerous awards, including Best
Achievement in Cinematography at the Oscar-qualifying St
Kilda Film Festival and Best Directing at the Dallas
Independent Film Festival, and he has competed at
prestigious festivals such as Berlinale and Warsaw Film
Festival. Burak is currently developing his first feature film.
