biography

Born in 1982 in Ankara. In 2005, he graduated from Anadolu University, Civil Engineering Department. In 2008, he started his master's degree in cinema-television at Anadolu University. He made his first short film About Uğur Kaymazs’ in 2006. With this film, he won the best experimental film award at the 19th Istanbul International Short Film Festival. As a reward, he was among the filmmakers who went to the Netherlands as cultural ambassadors with the support of the Embassy of the Netherlands. In 2006, he participated in the Istanbul Art Festival Counter Arts Workshop Turkey video art selection. He participated in the Hamburg Film Festival in 2007 with an Average 40 Matches. It was among the 9 animations in the world at Nine Nation Animation in the USA. In 2009, it won the special jury award for Mediterranean Films at Adana Golden Boll Film Festival. In 2009, he participated in 35 video exhibition in Strasbourg in the 35th Anniversary of Video. 2009 He took part in the video exhibition at Hafriyat. He has produced nearly 15 short films, 6 documentaries and 20 videos (videoart-videoactivism-videodocumentary) so far. He was the screenwriter, director, producer and editor of his films. 1 animation and 2 script development support from the General Directorate of Cinema. He was entitled to 2 film production support from the EU Sivil Düşün Programme. With his feature-length project Bilenme, he won 62nd Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, Film Forum, The Best Script Development Award in 2025. He is currently working on short and feature-length projects.

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