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Ceylan (1980) is an Istanbul-based filmmaker who studied law at Marmara University. Between 2003-2015, she produced culture-art and radio shows for television. Her movie reviews were published in print and online media for fourteen years. After having made three short films Ceylan’s debut feature KAYGI/INFLAME had its world premiere at the Berlinale’s Panorama Special in 2017. INFLAME won the Gamechanger Award at SXSW and has screened at a further forty festivals worldwide. For the last three years Ceylan has been working on her new project Witch Trilogy, which is formed by a short fiction 13+ (completed), a feature doc 15+ (in post-production) and a feature fiction 18+ (financing). She was an SFFILM grantee and an artist-in residence at Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg in 2018.