Preliminary Jury
Preliminary Jury
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Hayri Çölaşan was born in 1964 in Ankara. He got acquainted with cinema when his father worked as a machinist in Yenimahalle Seyran Theatre. In university he was trained for basic arts, ceramics, plastic and fine arts. In 1987 he started working for TRT Ankara Television as a lighting chief operator. After working in this position for 10 years, he transferred to the Actual Camera Operations. He took part in many documentaries as a cinematographer and a cameraman. He worked as a light operator in around 20 documentaries, camera assistant in 8 documentaries, cameraman and cinematographer in 71 documentaries and 6 foreign documentaries. He served as a preliminary jury and main jury member in many festivals. He created a database of jury members in film festivals and prepared a book on this subject. He tries to convey his training on cinema, his theoretical and practical experience through the website kameraarkasi.org.
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Prof. Dr. N. Aysun Akıncı Yüksel graduated from Anadolu University, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Cinema and Television Department. She was awarded the title of professorship in 2018. She teaches courses on Turkish cinema, popular cinema and mythology at undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels. Gender is among the fields of her research interest. She has published newspaper articles, articles in refereed and non-refereed journals, and chapters in printed books. She has been a referee in many scientific meetings, and a jury member in film festivals. For over ten years she has been a weekly commentator on the programme ‘Sekan’ on Radio A, and took part in the executive committee of many scientific and artistic organisations, including the Eskişehir International Film Festival . She has been the Vice President of Eskişehir International Film Festival since 2013.
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Fotoğraf, resim ve sinema ile ilişkisi 10 seneyi aşkın süredir devam etmektedir. Çeşitli eğitim kurumlarından -İstanbul Film Akademi, Umag, Erimtan Arkeoloji ve Sanat Müzesi Kültür Girişimi, Afsad, Ka Atölye, Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi, Anadolu Üniversitesi gibi - özellikle resim okuma, modernizmden postmodernizme, film okuma, film eleştirisi, film yapımı, senaryo, kurgu, sinema tarihi, sinema türleri, çağdaş sanat, çağdaş sinema vb. ne ilişkin bir çok konuda eğitimler almıştır. Yurtiçinde ve yurtdışında fotoğraflarıyla birçok fuar, art show, galeri, dernek ve üniversitelerde fotoğraf/çağdaş sanat sergilerinde yer almıştır. Şinasi Barutçu Kupası’nda finalist olmuş, Artlimited (Fransa) Photography Awards 2021’ de ikincilik ödülü almıştır.
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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Izlem Kanlı completed her undergraduate education at Ankara University
Faculty of Communication and her master's degree in Cultural Policies at the University of East Anglia
(UEA) in England. Having completed her doctorate in Marmara University, Department of
Communication Sciences with her research titled "The Cultural Political Reading of Women's
Representations in the Post-1980 Turkish Cinema". Kanlı continues to work as a lecturer in the
Department of Filmmaking and Broadcasting in the Faculty of Communication of the Near East
University as of 2015. Kanlı worked as a researcher in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at SOAS London University with an EU research scholarship between 2019-2020 and also gave postgraduate courses at the Faculty of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies at the University of East Anglia in the same period. Kanlı's academic research interests include media and cultural studies, cultural politics, photography, cinema and gender studies.
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He is a filmmaker who is a director in the field of documentary and fictional films and is experienced in editing and cinematography. He participated in many national and international festivals with his films. As a lecturer, he gives lectures in the fields of cinema and photography.