Can Koçak

After graduating from Bilkent University Faculty of Law in 2013, Can Koçak received a master’s degree in Film and Drama at Kadir Has University with his thesis which suggested an interdisciplinary method for creative writers, derived from Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966). He received his PhD in Communication from Istanbul Bilgi University with a thesis that focused on the representation of intellectual in the films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan. He is one of the writers of vesaire.org, an independent online blog for culture, arts and politics.

Güray Tezcan

Güray Tezcan, who was born in Istanbul in 1988, completed his education in advertising at Bahçeşehir University, and completed his master's degree in cultural studies at Goldsmiths College, London. He examined heteronormative monogamous marriages in his thesis. He is one of the translators of the book The Sexual Policy of Meat, published by Detay Publishing. He is currently continuing his doctoral studies at Istanbul Bilgi University and is preparing a thesis on communicative analysis of animal experiments. Apart from his native Turkish, he also knows English and German.

Meltem Özel

Meltem Özel 1984 İstanbul doğumlu. 2008’de lisans eğitimini Işık Üniversitesi Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü’nde tamamladı. 2012’de Beykent Üniversitesi İşletme Yüksek Lisans Programı’ndan mezun oldu. 2009-2012 arasında özel bir üniversitede Halkla İlişkiler Müdürü olarak çalıştı. 2014’ten bu yana İstanbul Esenyurt Üniversitesi Meslek Yüksekokulu Halkla İlişkiler ve Tanıtım Programı’nda Öğretim Görevlisi olarak çalışıyor. 2016’da Kocaeli Üniversitesi Halkla İlişkiler ve Tanıtım doktora programında başladığı eğitimine devam ediyor. Evli ve iki çocuk annesi.

Onur Aytaç

Onur Aytaç was born in 1991 in Üsküdar. He graduated from Marmara University Faculty of Law in 2014. Having a double major at the Faculty of Communication of the same university, Aytaç graduated from the Radio, TV and Cinema department in 2015. He studied at Istanbul Bilgi University Human Rights Law and Marmara University Cinema Graduate Programs, with the aim of doing interdisciplinary studies by blending both fields. Although he started his academic life as a research assistant in the Department of Criminal Law at Istanbul Kültür University, he resigned from this position and started to work as a research assistant at the Faculty of Communication, as he found it more enjoyable to do academic work in the field of communication and thought it was a more suitable field for interdisciplinary work. Aytaç, who was appointed to Mersin University Faculty of Communication within the scope of the Teaching Staff Training Program, worked at the Marmara University Communication Faculty Department of Cinema due to his graduate education, and in July 2017, he completed his master's degree in cinema with his thesis “Film Festivallerinde Belgeseller ve Sansür: Yeryüzü Aşkın Yüzü Oluncaya Dek ve Bakur”. Recalled due to the opening of a doctorate program at Mersin University, Aytaç has been working as a research assistant at Mersin University Faculty of Communication since October 2017 and continues his doctoral studies.

Özge Onay

Özge Onay is pursuing her doctoral degree in cultural studies at Yıldız Technical University. She completed her undergraduate education in the Department of American Culture and Literature at Istanbul University, and started working as an English lecturer at different universities the year she graduated. After her undergraduate education, she pursued her master's degree in Istanbul Bilgi University Cultural Studies Department and stayed in Overijssel region of the Netherlands to do the field research of her study on "Üçüncü Jenerasyon Türk Kökenli Hollandalı Gençlerin Entegrasyon Problemleri". Since January 2016, she has been working on her doctoral research, which analyzes the gentrification trends that have occurred since the old Bomonti Brewery in the Kurtuluş district was transformed and became a place of entertainment.

Özgül Akıncı

Özgül Akıncı lisans eğitimini Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Psikoloji Bölümü’nde gördükten sonra 2010'da Kültürel Çalışmalar'da gösteri sanatları üzerine yaptığı çalışmayla yüksek lisansını, 2017’de University of British Columbia'da "Çağdaş Türkiye'de Seks İşçiliği ve Performansta Cisimleşen Kadınlık Emeği: Teorik ve Pratik bir Çalışma" başlıklı teziyle de doktora eğitimini tamamladı. Liminalities, Performance Research gibi uluslararası hakemli dergilerde yazıları yayımlandı. Performans alanında yaratıcı faaliyetleri arasında solo performanslar da bulunuyor.

Sarper Durmuş

Sarper Durmuş has a Ph.D. in Communications from Istanbul Bilgi University where he also teaches undergrad courses on media & technology and journalism. His general interests are digital platforms and global media.

Zeynep Merve Uygun

Zeynep Merve Uygun received her BA in English Language and Literature from Bogazici University and her MA in Film and Television Department from İstanbul Bilgi University. She received her Ph.D in trans-disciplinary documentary film from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Prior to her current occupation as an assistant professor in the department of communication design at Özyeğin University, she worked as a lecturer at Istanbul Bilgi University, İstanbul Şehir University and Koç University.

Zeynep Merve Uygun has taken part in many international film festivals and workshops as a mentor, tutor and also jury member. Her animated and experimental documentaries such as IN OUT and Zigzag, besides receiving many international awards, have been screened at more than 50 international film festivals including Cannes, Boston Turkish Film Festival, Golden Orange and IF Istanbul (Istanbul Independent Film Festival). Her research interests include the visual representation of body and space in documentary film, digital ethnography, and new media documentary (interactive documentary, digital storytelling, transmedia documentary etc.).