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He was born in İzmir, Karşıyaka in 1939. After graduating from Galatasaray High School in 1957, he graduated from the State Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Architecture in 1964. He worked as a tourist guide, a journalist and a cinema critic. He worked for Cumhuriyet newspaper, which he started in 1966, for 27 years. He made weekly music programs and presented films on the state broadcasting corporation TRT. Especially in 1995, when the centennial of cinema was celebrated, and afterwards, he introduced countless classics together with his young colleagues such as Murat Özer, Alin Taşçıyan and Müjde Işıl. He founded the Cinema Writers Association (SİYAD) and served as its president for many years. He published many books, which were compilations of the film critics he wrote since the 1970s under the classification of Turkish and foreign cinema.
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Bachelor΄s Degree in Economics, Law School, University of Athens.
Graduate of E. Hatzikou Drama and Film School.
Theatre Studies at NYU and HB Studio in New York.
She has been acting on Stage and Television for more than 30 years.
She established “ELIART”, an independent theater in Athens.
Since 2000 she directs and produces documentaries mostly about human rights issues and received numerous international awards. She has filmed in “difficult” areas such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Indonesia, etc.
Selected filmography:
“Qadir, an Afghan Ulysses “, “Playing with Fire”, “The Nymphs of Hindu Kush”, “After the Tsunami – Sumatra”, “Europe, the Dream”
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David Archibald is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow. His publications include The war that won’t die: The Spanish Civil War in Cinema (2012), Tracking Loach: Politics | Practices | Production (2022) and many essays on film and film culture. He is Editor of the Edinburgh University Press Political Cinemas Series, sits on the editorial boards of Journal of Class and Culture, New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, and Media Practice and Education, and is a member of the Radical Film Network international steering committee. David is currently making films with Núria Araüna Baró under the banner ‘Ragged Cinema’, writing songs for and performing with The Tenementals, and is researcher-in-residence at The Revelator Wall of Death
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He is an academician and director, born on March 14, 1981 in Alanya. He graduated from Eastern Mediterranean University Radio, TV and Cinema Department. He made many short films and won awards. He is the producer and director of the documentary ‘Famagusta’. He worked as an assistant to Ülkü Erakalın, the veteran director of Yeşilçam Cinema, and he entered the cinema industry as an assistant director in the movie ‘A Love to Scream’. Later, he started to work with Producer-Director Derviş Zaim, who has many national and international awards. He is still continuing his doctorate program and giving lectures on cinema, short films, documentaries and photography at different universities. He continues short film and documentary projects. He has served as a jury member at national and international film festivals and has taken part in festival committees.
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He was born on October 13, 1950 in Izmir. Turkish actor, director, art director and writer. In 1971, he entered Ankara State Conservatory Theatre Department with a level exam. He graduated from Ankara State Conservatory Graduate Programme in 1977. He worked in the State Theatres first as an actor, then as a director, and later he served as the deputy general director and the general director. The plays he directed have been invited to festivals in Russia, Canada, South Korea, Iran and Northern Cyprus. He is still a director at the State Theatres and is the founder and first president of the State Theatres, Opera and Ballet Employees Foundation (TOBAV) and Theatre Actors Professional Union (TOMEB).