Preliminary Jury
Preliminary Jury
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Asst. Prof. Dr. Elnaz Nasehi is a documentary filmmaker who currently works as a full-time lecturer in the department of Film Design and Directing at Arkin University of Creative Arts and Design. After receiving her bachelor degree in Cinema (Editing) from Art University of Tehran (2004), and her MA in Dramatic Literature from Tarbiat Modares University (2007), she started working as a director, editor and researcher in IRIB and made a series of episodic TV documentaries titled Future. She also had her first book, the Guide to Story-Telling for Computer Games, published in 2010. In 2018, she earned her doctoral degree in communication and media studies at Eastern Mediterranean University in North Cyprus. Her research interests include Neopatriarchal Iranian society/cinema, critical cultural studies and interdisciplinary and feminist contributions to the fields of Middle Eastern Studies and Film Studies.
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Naile Berberoğlu, also known as Davita Günbay, is a lecturer at the Department of Film Making and Broadcasting at Near East University in North Cyprus. She utilises post-structuralist critical theory to approach many issues ranging from globalisation to childhood in her academic studies. She recently worked in the production of a short film titled ‘Mysrery’ (2021) as producer.
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Deborah Semel Demirtaş is an interdisciplinary artist and the founder and coordinator of the Foça International Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Documentary Film Days. Ms. Semel Demirtaş holds a B.F.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, an M.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and a Ph.D equivalent from Hacettepe University. She has taught at various institutions, including Bilkent University in Ankara, and she has written about and lectured on art with an emphasis on its role in the creation of a public consciousness. Her installations and two-dimensional work have been exhibited in both Turkey and the United States.
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Assist. Prof. Dr. İzlem Kanlı obtained her BA from Ankara University, Faculty of Communication. She obtained her MA degree in Cultural Politics from (UEA), UK. She later obtained her PhD degree in Communication and Media Studies from Marmara University-Istanbul. She obtained EU scholarship and continued to do research at SOAS University of London during 2019-2020 and at the same time she also taught masters courses in media studies at University of East Anglia. Kanlı has taught in Sussex University, GAU, UEA and NEU and now is the head of NEU Department of Film Making and Broadcasting Department. Her research interests include media & cultural studies, cultural politics, photography, cinema and gender studies.
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Hakan Karahasan took his PhD in Communication and Media Studies from Near East University (NEU). In 2009-2010, he was a guest researcher at the University of Bologna, under the supervision of Anna Maria Lorusso. His studies were mostly published in various journals in Cyprus and in Turkey. Besides his published papers, he is the editor of Past Traumas: The Representation of History and Peace Education and Education in a Multicultural Cyprus, together with Iacovos Psaltis, Nicos Anastasiou, Hubert Faustmann, Maria Hadjipavlou, and Marilena Zackheos. In 2019, he translated Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince into Turkish Cypriot dialect with Ahmet Serdar Gökaşan as Güçük Prens.