Academic Staff

He completed his undergraduate degree in 2019, in Izmir University of Economics department of Cinema and Digital Media with a full scholarship as an honour student. Afterward, he started to IUE Media and Communication Studies MA Program and graduated in 2022 with a thesis titled "Transnational Dynamics of Turkish Film Festivals in Germany and the United States". He continues his education at Dokuz Eylül University, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Film Design PhD Program, and carries out his studies on "The History of Digital Cinematography in Türkiye and the Transformation of Visual Production".
He has been working in various roles in independent films since 2017 and has been working as a Research Assistant at the IUE Department of Cinema and Digital Media, since 2021. His works include short-fiction films, documentaries, interactive films, music videos and promo films. Recently, he has participated in various roles in conferences and film festivals as well as works for which he was the cinematographer and co-producer. His main areas of focus include cinematography, filmmaking, and film festivals.

Received her Ph.D. in 2008 from the Visual and Cultural Studies Program at the University of Rochester in the USA. Was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Munich in Germany from 2008 to 2011. From 2011 to 2016, she was the director of the research project "Changing Imaginations of Istanbul. From Oriental to the Cool City" funded by the Emmy Noether Program of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation). Has been working as an Assistant Professor in the Cinema and Digital Media department at IEU since 2016. She chaired the Cinema and Digital Media department from 2017 to 2020.

Ahmet Gürata is an academic, film critic and festival curator. He has published research on the history of Turkish cinema, reception, remakes and documentary in anthologies and journals. He also works as a programmer for the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival and Festival on Wheels. He has curated several thematic programs for festivals. As a film critic he writes and podcasts regularly for a number of publications and platforms.

Serkan Şavk received his undergraduate degree from Ankara University, Faculty of Communication. He pursued graduate study at Hacettepe University, Department of History and received his PhD in 2014 with a dissertation titled “Doors, Privacy and Public Sphere: Spatial Structure of Istanbul in the Early Modern Period (17th-18th Centuries).” After receiving his PhD, Serkan Şavk conducted research at Princeton University, Department of History as a visiting fellow. His research interests include image-space relation from a historical perspective, early modern Ottoman cultural history, digital humanities and cinema in Turkey.