CEYLAN ÖZGÜN ÖZÇELİK

Biography

 

Ceylan (b. 1980) is an Istanbul-based filmmaker with a law degree and a background in TV, radio and film criticism. For almost twenty years now, she has been making both feature films and shorts -fiction, documentary and experimental- delving into memory and violence. She made her feature debut with INFLAME, a political thriller, premiered at the Berlinale’s Panorama Special and won the Gamechanger Award at SXSW in 2017. Ceylan was an artist-in-residence at Berlin-AIR in and an SFFILM grantee with her project: WITCH TRILOGY that tells its tales in different forms by confronting violence against women. Her films screened at SIFF, Tokyo, Ann Arbor, Sitges, Festival Du Nouveau Cinéma, Dokufest, Cork, London Short Film Festival, Sao Paulo, RIDM and many more. Not Only But Also, the fifth feature film, written, directed, and produced by her currently in post-production. She is a member of the European Film Academy (EFA).