Hive International Short Film Days, Berlin, 9-11 September 2022.
Julia Lazarus and I presenting our curated selection of short films and TIkTok videos titled “Curling Eyelashes: Feminisms of the Everyday” for the second edition of the festival. 
The works in the selection question the seeming invisibility of patriarchal ideology.

Presenting Communing in a Crisis, a  collaborative video essay series about the entanglement of fear and hope during the pandemic by Julia Lazarus and Şirin Fulya Erensoy, at the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, 30 October, 2021.

Presenting the awards at the Porto Femme International Film Festival with my fellow jury member Leslie Ann Coles, Porto, October 2021.

 From presentation titled “Why can’t I walk in my own country?” LGBTI+ community’s Visual Activism in Turkey, given at the Radical Film Network Meeting in Berlin, Germany, August 2021.

Poster for the Migration Film Days: Sub-Saharan African Migration to Turkey in Cinema fiction film selection panel,  broadcast on Medyascope TV in May 2020. Event held in the context of the TÜBİTAK BIDEB 2232 program at Kadir Has University. I was the event director and moderated the panel held with Nesli Çölgeçen, Seyfettin Tokmak, Melisa Önel and Prof. Dr. Mahir Şaul.

Still from the Migration Film Days: Sub-Saharan African Migration to Turkey in Cinema fiction film selection panel,  broadcast on Medyascope TV in May 2020. Event held in the context of the TÜBİTAK BIDEB 2232 program at Kadir Has University. I was the event director and moderated the panel held with Nesli Çölgeçen, Seyfettin Tokmak, Melisa Önel and Prof. Dr. Mahir Şaul.

Poster for the Migration Film Days: Sub-Saharan African Migration to Turkey in Cinema documentary selection panel,  broadcast on Medyascope TV in May 2020. Event held in the context of the TÜBİTAK BIDEB 2232 program at Kadir Has University. I was the event director and moderated the panel held with Berke Baş, Reyan Tuvi, Dr. Eda Elif Tibet, Kıvılcım Akay, Prof. Dr. Mahir Şaul.

Still from the Migration Film Days: Sub-Saharan African Migration to Turkey in Cinema documentary selection panel,  broadcast on Medyascope TV in May 2020. Event held in the context of the TÜBİTAK BIDEB 2232 program at Kadir Has University. I was the event director and moderated the panel held with Berke Baş, Reyan Tuvi, Dr. Eda Elif Tibet, Kıvılcım Akay, Prof. Dr. Mahir Şaul.

From panel Discrepant Images: Representations of African Immigrants Across Different Media in Turkey, where I gave a presentation titled The Limits of the Humanitarian Approach in Turkish Documentaries on African Immigrants. The panel took place at the XX. New Directions in Turkish Film Studies Conference: Cinema and Migration at Kadir Has University, May 2019. Fellow panelists were Güler Canbolat and Özlem Yıldız.

From lecture titled Short Films in Turkey: Themes and Aesthetics, Screening Possibilities and Industry Relations, given at The Short Film: A Genre Sui Generis Conference, held during the 16th In the Palace International Short Film Festival, Varna, Bulgaria, September 2019.

The International jury at the 16th In the Palace International Short Film Festival, Varna, Bulgaria, September 2019. From left to right: Dr. Zelma Catalan, Şirin Fulya Erensoy, Sandy Lieberson, Rita Capucho, Pascal Reinmann, Ognyan Kovachev, Katya Trichkova, and Faisal-Azam Qureshi.

Production still from documentary 8 – Macedonian Chalgia Music, funded by the Macedonia Film Agency, shot in Istanbul (Turkey) in October-November 2018. I worked as a local producer and translator. Here, we are interviewing Kanun-player Günay Çelik from the state’s Classical Turkish Music Band. Next to me screenwriter Risto Soluncev, D.O.P Goran Naumovski, director/producer Blazhe Dulev.

Production still from documentary 8 – Macedonian Chalgia Music, funded by the Macedonia Film Agency, shot in Istanbul (Turkey) in October-November 2018. I worked as a local producer and translator. Here, we are interviewing musicologist from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Melih Duygulu. With D.O.P Goran Naumovski.

From presentation titled The Evolution of Video Activism in Turkey, given at The Power of Activist Video conference, held at the ICI Berlin, May 2017.

From presentation titled The Evolution of Video Activism in Turkey, given at The Power of Activist Video conference, held at the ICI Berlin, May 2017. At the time, video activist Kazım Kızıl had been arrested in İzmir during a demonstration held in protest of the 16 April 2017 constitutional referendum results in Turkey. Kızıl was jailed  on the charge of “insulting the president.” 

From presentation titled The Evolution of Video Activism in Turkey, given at The Power of Activist Video conference, held at the ICI Berlin, May 2017. At the time, video activist Kazım Kızıl had been arrested in İzmir during a demonstration held in protest of the 16 April 2017 constitutional referendum results in Turkey. Kazım was jailed  on the charge of “insulting the president.” Conference organizers and participants joined in on the hashtag campaign to make Kazım’s unlawful arrest visible.

Competition jury at the Seecs Short Film Festival, Istanbul Turkey, April 2017. From left to right: Bülent Küçükerdoğan, Manuela Cernat, Sophia Georgiadou, Ovidiu Nicolae Georgescu, Vladimir Stojcevski, myself and Kadi Lokk.  

Post-PhD. defense with my jury members: Eleni Varmazi (supervisor), Melis Behlil, Özge Erbek, myself, Nilay Ulusoy, Kaya Özkaracalar. Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, January 2017.

From lecture series titled An Introduction to Turkish Film: From Yeşilçam to the New Cineastes, held at the Academy of Dramatic Arts Zagreb, Croatia, within the scope of the ERASMUS Academic Personnel Exchange, March 2016. 

From lecture series titled An Introduction to Turkish Film: From Yeşilçam to the New Cineastes, held at the Academy of Dramatic Arts Zagreb, Croatia, within the scope of the ERASMUS Academic Personnel Exchange, March 2016. 

From the screening of my documentary I Occupied: The Gezi Park Protests, in the occupied foyer of Sofia University’s St. Kliment Ohridski building, December 2013.

Production still from fiction film The Short Anatomy of a Murder, that I wrote, directed and edited in 2011. The film had received support from the Cinema of the Future Short Film Support Competition, given by the TÜRSAK Foundation. The film starred Yasemin Erensoy and Güray Binay. 

Production still from fiction film The Short Anatomy of a Murder, that I wrote, directed and edited in 2011. The film had received support from the Cinema of the Future Short Film Support Competition, given by the TÜRSAK Foundation. The film starred Yasemin Erensoy and Güray Binay.