Eylem Kaftan Born in Turkey, Eylem Kaftan completed a B.A. in Philosophy at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. She completed another Masters program in film and video at York University. Her first documentary, Faultlines won Best Short Film and the Jury Prize at the Planet Indie Film Festival in Toronto in 2002. Kaftan then wrote and directed Vendetta Song (2005) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFxusefo6tE) produced in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada. This documentary about her personal journey into the honour-killing of her aunt in a small village in Turkey has received several awards including the Quebec Film Critics Association Award for Best Medium Length Documentary; Best Documentary, Calgary International film festival. Her third documentary Bledi, This is Our Home tells the story of the non-status Algerians and their struggle to remain in Canada. In 2010, Kaftan made a documentary series for Aljazeera documentary channel, called the Dreamcatchers. Between 2011-2013 she worked for Al Jazeera Turkish and produced several short documentaries and three 44-minute films, which were shown at Al Jazeera English/World channel. The first one is The Passion and Penalty, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4opWj38qp0) a film about the matchfixing scandal in Turkish football. The second one is Sarajevo, My Love,(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmuqWmALnjoa) a film about a Serbian general who defended Sarajevo during the siege of the city. Third one is Seeing isn't Everything which is about four blind people living in İstanbul. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9KsI5SSmnk Kaftan is currently working for Vatan newspaper and producing docs for TRT documentary channel and Al Jazeera Plus channel. Her latest film is The emptiness in me which is about three non-Turkish sufis. She also worked as a presenter for a TV series for TRT Documentary on ‘urban farmers’, called Biçiftlik (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDEWpOSfvDo)