Riza Kirac
He was born in Istanbul. He started his undergraduate education at Dokuz Eylul University Fine Arts Faculty (GSF) Cinema-Television Department and completed his undergraduate education at Marmara University GSF Cinema-Television Department and received his master's degree from the same university.
She wrote cinema criticism and literary articles in many magazines and newspapers starting from 1997. In addition to his novels and short stories, his movies and river conversation books were published.
She wrote documentary screenplays and wrote promotional and advertising copy she. Hodja Alim (1998), Setting off with Ömer Kavur (2004) and What About London! (2008) undertook the production and direction of the documentaries she. In 2010, he shot his first feature film called Little Sins, for which he wrote the script. He adapted the screenplay of the movie Night, directed by Erden Kıral in 2014, from Hasan Özkılıç's novel Zahit.
Irem Siyahgöz
He was born in Ankara. He completed his undergraduate education at Ankara University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, and his graduate education at Marmara University.
His relationship with photography, painting and cinema has been going on for 10 years. Witl' education
institutions, associations, etc. -such as Istanbul Film Academy, Umag, Erimtan Archeology and Art Museum Culture Initiative, Afsad, Ka Atelier, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Anadolu University - especially art history, painting reading, modernism to postmodernism, Contemporary art, film reading, film criticism, film production, short film, film language/grammar, creative writing, montage/editing, history of cinema, cinema genres, directing, art direction, contemporary cinema
He received training on many subjects.
He took part in many exhibitions of photography and contemporary art in many fairs, art shows, galleries, associations and universities with his photographs at home and abroad.
'Cinema be your future.' said Aytekin Çakmakçı, and this sentence became the breaking point in his life.
Cinema is no longer 'many things' but 'everything'.
Kerem Akca
In the summer of 2000 and 2001, he attended New York University's "Tisch School of Arts" and "Filmmaker's Workshop" cinema courses. She has realized 2 personal short films and 3 group projects (short films). She started working as a screenwriter in 2001. She joined the writer staff of Cinema Merkez magazine in 2002. There he edited the DVD and Technical Analysis section. Then, in 2008, he worked as the editor of Empire Turkey magazine, wrote criticism and prepared files. He wrote articles for Radikal Newspaper, Star Newspaper, Hurriyet Newspaper, cinema.com, superonline.com, intersinema.com and undertook the duties of department editor. Between 2008 and 2017, he worked as a film writer for Habertürk. As of October 2017, he started to work as a movie writer for Posta Newspaper. In 2012, he was the editor of TRT 1 Kaba Fiction program. In 2015 and 2016, he was the Program Director at the Malatya International Film Festival. He worked as the Program Director at Adana Film Festival between 2017-2019. He brought names such as Andrey Zvyagintsev, Guillermo Arriaga, and Alex Proyas to our country in his festival career. He also taught cinema courses at various institutions. At the beginning of 2018, he published his first cinema book, The Hollywood Generation in Local Cinema. Since the beginning of 2020, he started to work as the internet editor of FIPRESCI, of which he is a member. In 2021, he served as the Program Director of the Dystopia Film Festival. In 2022, he launched the Universal Science Fiction & Fantasy Film Festival US3F as Artistic Director.
Lokman Zor
He was born in Erzurum in 1973. He graduated from Atatürk University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Performing Arts, Dramatic Writing Major. After working as a copywriter and journalist for various media organizations in Istanbul for a while, he started to work as a lecturer at Niğde University in 2004.
After completing his master's degree in Erciyes University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Radio, Cinema and Television, he completed his doctorate in the same institute, Department of Journalism. He received the title of Associate Professor in the field of cinema in 2020. He worked in fields such as Turkish World Cinema, cinema and ideology, ideological discourse, worked as a coordinator in many culture and art projects in the field of communication, and was a jury member in various film festivals.
In addition to the radio plays broadcast on TRT Ankara Radio, many of his literary works such as stories, articles, essays and criticism were published in various magazines and newspapers.
His first book of short stories, "Whatever Is Love", was published in 2007, and his second book of short stories, "Love Needs to Be," was published in 2012. He has two books named "Actor's Management in Cinema" and "Kazakhstan Cinema" and various books that he edited for his academic field of study.
Having been deemed worthy of many awards in various competitions with the theater plays and stories he wrote, and having many scientific publications in line with his academic studies, Assoc. Dr. Lokman Zor is still working at Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University, Faculty of Communication.
M. Tayfur Aydin
He was born in Bitlis in 1984. In 2008, he directed his first short film, “Sen olmak”.
The short films he directed later on received awards at national and international festivals.
In 2011, he directed his first feature film, IZ/REÇ (Trace). Then he founded MTA Film Production Company ın 2013.
In 2016, Aydın directed his second feature film, “BLACK CROW”, which competed in many festivals and received awards.
In 2017 he produced "Bir Kezban, Bir Mahmut" and in 2019 "Ask spell and All that".
Among other works, he produced several short and long documentary films.
His new projects “Battle of Hedgehogs” and “All Gone” are currently in the preliminary preparation stage.
Abdulhamit Avsar
He was born in 1964. He graduated from Marmara University Press and Broadcasting School (Communication Faculty) in 1986. He worked at Yeşilçam between 1985-1986. He started working at TRT in 1987 by winning the Producer exams. He undertook the production and direction of many documentary films as well as various drama, culture and generation programs. Won the Turkish Writers Union “Best Documentary” (2003), Turkic World Service Foundation “Turkish World Distinguished Service” (2003), “Samir Askerhanov” (2005) and Turkish Journalists Association “Documentary of the Year” (2008). He was deemed worthy of awards, plaques and plaques by many national and international organizations. He served as jury chairman and member at various international and national film festivals. He served as TRT Azerbaijan Representative (2004-2007), TRT Istanbul Regional Directorate (2014-2018) and TRT Kazakhstan Representative (2018-2020). He completed his master's degree in Istanbul University Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science (SBF), and doctorate in International Relations (SBF). He became an associate professor in the field of Applied Communication in 2013 and a professor in 2022. Between 2011-2018, he gave part-time applied communication courses at Marmara University Faculty of Communication. He is currently the Head of the Department of Media and Communication at Istanbul Commerce University, Faculty of Communication.
Gozde Sunal
Gözde Sunal I graduated from Istanbul Commerce University Visual Communication Design Undergraduate Program in 2004-2009, Marmara University Radio Television Cinema Graduate Program in 2009-2011 and Maltepe University Communication Sciences Doctorate Program in 2011-2015. Since my career goal is to be an academician, I have been working at Istanbul Commerce University, Faculty of Communication, Visual Communication Design Department since 2009, when I graduated. In addition to my academic publications, I am a jury member and awards in various artistic events. My areas of expertise are film and media studies, surveillance studies, the relationship between cinema and psychology, film production management, film criticism and aesthetic studies.
Alp Eren Erbay
He grew up in 7 different cities of Turkey. He took up photography, videography and video editing as a hobby under the influence of the lectures at Anadolu University, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Department of Press and Broadcasting, where he received his undergraduate education, and worked part-time jobs in these fields while he was a student. After his graduation, he worked as a cameraman, director operator, editing operator, assistant director and director in Nr1 TV, Fashion TV, TVEM channels, and later worked as a program and news bulletin director at Habertürk TV. After graduating from the Media and Communication Studies master's program, she continues her education at the doctoral program of the same name at the thesis stage. He teaches courses such as photography, video camera, editing, TV programming as a lecturer at Istanbul Commerce University, Faculty of Communication, Visual Communication Design Department.
Ozden Toprak
Dr. Lecturer Özden Toprak is a graduate of Marmara University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Radio, Television and Cinema. Having completed his master's degree at Marmara University and the Proficiency in Art Program at Beykent University, Toprak started his career in national channels during his undergraduate education, and for many years he worked as a presenter, announcer and producer in some leading national channels (ATV, TRT, TGRT). Toprak, whose special interviews and articles were published in some national newspapers in different periods, started to give vocational courses since 2007 and worked as a lecturer in various academies and universities. Toprak, who was appointed to the Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences of Istanbul Gelişim University as an assistant professor in 2014, worked as a faculty member and a member of the faculty board of directors in the Department of Radio, Television and Cinema for four years, and held different administrative positions. Toprak, who started to work in Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Faculty of Communication, Radio, Television and Cinema Department at the beginning of 2018, is the Head of Cinema Department. Toprak, who has undertaken the execution and jury membership of many national and international competitions, has published works from different publishing houses. Bakırköy Artists Association (BASAD) is a member of FILMSAN.
Murat Vela Derman
We can say that he was born in Ankara in 1965 as the son of a Kosovo Albanian immigrant family and spent his childhood and youth in Kosovo. He is a Kosovo and Turkish citizen. He worked as a choreographer between 1983-1990 and switched to directing in 1990. He continues his activities in a film production company called VelaBank Production in Kosovo. Some of his work
Filmography
The Song of Resistance (middle length) Ankara-1999 Screenwriter-Producer/Director
Shadows (Feature) Ankara 2009 Screenwriter-Producer/Director
The Blood is Prisoner (Middle length)Albania- 2014 Director
Teuta Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Feature) Kosova- 2015 Producer/ Director
Bleeding Yara Bosnia 1996 Producer / Director
Words and Meanings Palestine 1996 Director/Editor
From Gamma to Nirvana 1997 Producer / Director
Street Children 1997 Producer / Director
Cartridge 1998 Producer / Director
A Tale of Lost Times 1998 Producer / Director
Kanliova Kosova 1999 Producer / Director
Ali Pinar
Actor, director, producer, singer and radio program producer Ali Pınar was born in Istanbul. After Galatasaray High School, he completed his undergraduate education at Istanbul Bilgi University Communication Faculty Cinema-TV Department, and his master's degree at Haliç University Conservatory Theater Department. Simultaneously, he became a student of State Artist Ayhan Baran in the Part-Time Singing Department at MSU State Conservatory. On the other hand, she studied acting with Ayla Algan, Şahika Tekand (Studio Actors) and Mehmet Ulusoy for three years. She also attended Viola Spolin workshops of Kate Hendrickson, Jason Hale and Ege Maltepe. He is still continuing his education at Bahçeşehir University Cinema and Media Studies Doctorate Program.
Since 1995; He worked as an assistant and conduit at CRR Opera and Istanbul State Theatre. In addition to opera and theater plays, he took part in movies and TV series and presented TV programs. Among them, the American-Afghan co-production I Am You was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film category at both the Academy Awards (Oscar) and the Golden Globes in 2020. In the series productions, in recent years, TV series such as Güneşin Kızları, Cesur ve Güzel and Payitaht have been broadcast in nearly 100 countries.
The musical work The Battle of Prague, which he narrated, was staged at the United Nations in New York. He played the narrator in Prokofiev's classic piece Peter & Kurt, accompanied by the Tekfen Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Conductor Darrell Ang, at the TİM Show Center.
He signed many international productions as a producer and director with Corpora Productions, which he founded in 2002. Among them, the documentary film called Uyghur Karızları shot in China, England, Austria and Turkey. It received the support of the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Culture of the Chinese HC.
He staged seven Baroque operas at the Istanbul Baroque and Ankara State Opera. Deidamia, which he staged at the Ankara State Opera, is the first Händel opera staged in Turkey.
Since 2002, he has prepared and presented the radio programs Aksak on TRT Radio 3, Alla Turca on Açık Radyo and Alafranga on Borusan Classic Radio. His book, Cemal Reşit Rey, on his 100th birthday was published by Pan Publishing.
