Born in 1980 in Turkey Özçelik studied law at the Marmara University in Istanbul but never practiced After working as a text writer in TV channels and as a DJ in a radio station started to produce write and host a TV show on cinema called En Heyecanlı Yeri which was aired for almost ten years Add to that she produced and wrote four other cultureart TV programmes For fourteen years she had written film reviews for online and print media A book of interviews and media memoirs called Dikkat Çekim Var written by her published in 2013 In between 20052011 she edited behind the scenes cinema award videos production company trailers and documentaries Her short films have screened at various festivals including Bratislava Art and Festroia Her feature film debut KAYGIINFLAME a thriller about memory and mass media has made its world premiere at the 67 Berlinale Panorama and won Luna Gamechanger Award at South by Southwest SXSW where the film had its North American premiere Inflame has screened more than 30 other festivals worldwide Özçelik is currently developing her second feature 18 which is a dark comedy about women and violence for quite some time now 18 was among the projects of Meetings On The Bridge and won the Visual Effects Award in 2017 Özçelik is an artistinresidence for 2018 at Medienboard BerlinBrandenburg
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