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Biography
She was born in 1980 in Istanbul. In 2003, she graduated
from Marmara University Faculty of Communication Department of Radio TV and
Cinema. She worked in various short and documentary films which have screened at
national and international film festivals. She worked as reporter, production
supervisor and director in various tv channels such as TV8, Haberturk, CNN-Turk.
She also worked at Suha Arin’s MTV Film Company. She studied at Hochschule
für Bildende Künste (HFBK) in Germany as an exchange student. There she joined German
director Wim Wenders’s courses and made a fake-documentary called The Last
Amazon in Germany. The film was screened in various national and international
competitions and received awards. In 2013, she received her Doctorate Degree with
her thesis titled Reality in Cinema and Mock-Documentary. She has a book called
Mock-Documentary Between Dream and Reality. She is still in M.U. Faculty of
Communication, Department of Cinema as a Lecturer. She also continues her theoretical
and practical works. She gives courses such as Documentary Cinema, Film
Criticism, Film Theory, World Cinema, Cinema and Society.
Contact
- ekurtoglu@marmara.edu.tr
- Web Page
- https://avesis.marmara.edu.tr/ekurtoglu