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İstanbul, Türkiye

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

After completing my duties as a Virtual Experience Designer at SPHERE, I joined the team under this new role.- Viewing, scoring, and then discussing the festival submissions with the Artistic Director.- Deciding the films for the festival line-up with the Artistic Director and the external jury.- Planning sub-categories for the festival line-up.- Writing.

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Returned to the festival as a team member! Assisted the team with the masterclass sessions for the Young Critics Program 2023.- Introduced the masterclass guest and moderated the sessions.- Coordinated the Q&A sessions after the end of each session.- Recorded the sessions and provided admin/tech support as needed.- Moderated 9 sessions in total with guests.

Istanbul, Türkiye

- Teaching roughly 160 high school students from freshman to senior years (aged 15 to 18).- Developing the curriculum according to HSK (Mandarin Chinese proficiency exam) levels, supplemented with native audiovisual media.- Creating student worksheets and review notes; preparing and grading midterm and final exams.

Oslo, Norway

A newly founded NGO, based in Oslo, Norway, aims to organize Asia-related cultural events in the city. Focusing on screening independent films and documentaries from Asia and curating the inaugural art exhibition in 2023.Joined the organization's curator team. Currently in charge of the first screening of KINA KINO 2023 screenings.- Contributing to the.

Istanbul, Turkey

Joined the national organization's discovery team, where we program films for screening events. Currently co-curating the year's first event, scheduled to be in March 2023.- Following short film platforms and national and international film festivals' line-ups.- Contacting the directors, producers, or distributors of potential films.- Creating the short.

Istanbul, Turkey

Joined the editorial team as a film critic for Bağımsız Sinema, a Turkish online cinema platform with thousands of followers on Instagram and Facebook.

Athens, Attiki, Greece

- Watched submissions as assigned from FilmFreeway, averaging 350 films of varying lengths and genres each month- Watched out and took note of themes or recurring elements within submissions, being active participants in the selection process and following programming guidelines and criteria- Provided written feedback on the films screened- Participated.

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Returned to take part in creating the festival line-up as a member of the film screening team. Screening 260 short films in the narrative category until June and attending monthly meetings.

United Kingdom

An insightful 6-month traineeship program by McKinsey & Company, aiming to equip young professionals with crucial and transferable skills needed to thrive in the global and digital workplace.Subjects include: business, leadership, resilience, adaptability, design thinking, problem-solving, digital toolkit usage, communication, etc.Conducted by McKinsey &.

Norwich, England, United Kingdom

Joined the screening committee for the BAFTA-qualifying festival briefly.

Istanbul, Turkey

A remarkable and in-depth 8-month traineeship program for a select number of trainees (21 trainees for the animation director track, 166 trainees in total with all tracks included) chosen after a case study inspection process. Subjects include: Screenwriting, 2D & 3D animation production streamlines training, Disney pipeline training, animation timing &.

United States

The main apprenticeship program lasted from May 2022 to October 2022 -- I'm now an alumnus of the program starting November 2022!A multi-stage leadership development program by Harvard University's Aspire Institute for low-income and first-generation university students from all over the world. The program aims to develop upcoming leaders through personal.

China

A workshop on translating Chinese media with 20 hours of cultural analysis seminars and 20 hours of practical translation seminars on the chosen media. The types of media analyzed are: theatrical films, TV series, and documentaries.Conducted by Chinese Culture Translation & Studies Support Network as a part of the project focusing on nurturing and.

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Took part in creating the festival line-up as a member of the film screening team. Screened more than 300 short films in the narrative category for 7 months and attended monthly meetings.

Istanbul, Turkey

Wearing several hats for the 2-month-long (prep week and 3 sprints, 2 weeks each) graduation bootcamp of this traineeship, which is a game development project with Unity 3D.Agile Scrum Master:- Created project management documents such as: Project plan, Gantt chart, user story burndown chart, Kanban chart, and retrospective notes document using Microsoft.

Istanbul, Turkey

An intensive 5-month traineeship taking trainees from zero to hero by teaching them coding in C#, developing games in Unity, guiding them through game art principles, while also teaching crucial project management skills with the help of the Google Project Management Professional Certificate Program at Coursera.Subjects include: C# coding, 2D and 3D game.

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

The main apprenticeship program lasted from January 2022 to June 2022 -- I'm now an alumnus of the program starting July 2022!A truly unique fellowship focusing on nurturing global and emerging critics with the help of distinguished mentors and sessions.Subjects include: Climate crisis representation in art, queer cinema in queer-insensitive areas around.

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

- As a group representative, led a group of fellow 12 cohort members for the duration of one full month, where we collectively prepared a written manifesto.- As a coordinator, maintained frequent communication with group members and made sure the writing process from researching to the final submission went smoothly.- Gathered everyone's input in one.

Istanbul, Turkey

An intensive and extraordinary 4-month workshop for 30 trainees chosen after an interview process; covering all aspects of filmmaking, film history, and film criticism.Subjects include: Film directing, film producing, cinematography, screenwriting, film editing, color-grading, film history, and film criticism.Sponsored by the Turkish Ministry of Culture.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Film And Television

Awarded full tuition fee waiver by the institute and full monthly stipend by TUBITAK through the BIDEB 2210-A program. Courses include: MA.

Visiting Student, Cop4333 - Netflix Series Writing Special Course

Awarded full scholarship by the faculty. A unique single-semester course on Series Writing, taught together by the Film and Television.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Business Chinese

Activities and Societies: Member of Chinese Speaking Club, Traditional Chinese Calligraphy Club, and Japanese Popular Culture & Anime.

High School, Maths And Literature Track, Diploma Grade: 82%

Activities and Societies: President of the Japanese Media Club.