
FACULTY OF COMMUNICATION
Department of Cinema and Digital Media
About Us
Our department offers contemporary cinema and digital media arts education. We focus on conventional and digital forms of visual storytelling including fiction and documentary, animation, interactive and immersive forms of media production.
Our curriculum is shaped around three principles: Teaching applied, intellectual and creative skills in a blended way; equipping the students with multiple professional skills at industry standards; developing habits of ethical conduct, critical thinking, problem solving and professional adaptability.
The cornerstone of our curriculum is a series of intensive studio courses taught by multiple instructors along with visiting professionals working in the field of film and digital media arts. In these studio courses, our students develop applied skills related to pre-production, production and post-production phases of a digital media product. They take individual responsibility of their own creative work as well as work in groups as crew members. The studio courses are supported by a set of must courses and elective courses where the students gain skills in specialized areas.
The professional needs of cinema and digital media industries are rapidly transforming. In line with this transformation, we aim to graduate creative young professionals who are equipped with both the fundamental skill set of filmmaking (scriptwriting, directing, editing, etc.) and competence in creating digital media narratives with interactive elements.
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CDM hosted Dina Iordanova
Prof. Dina Iordanova gave a speech titled Olympics of Film: Dynamics of international film competitions on Thursday, January 5, 2023, in D002 at Izmir

Everything Unnerves Me, directed by Hazal Bayar and Çağıl Saydam at International Festivals
The festival journey of Cinema and Digital Media lecturer Dr. Hazal Bayar and graduate Çağıl Saydam's film Everything Unnerves Me continues.

EPI.LOG 2022 was held between 22 - 24 June
The traditional end-of-year exhibition "EPI.LOG", where the works of the third and fourth-year students and graduates of the CDM are exhibited, was

CDM's Collaboration with Dillard University
Students from the Cinema and Digital Media Department have been chosen to participate in a project sponsored by Breaking Bread Media and

Combined science fiction and drama
Toygun Çetin, a graduate of Izmir University of Economics (IUE) Department of Cinema and Digital Media, achieved great success with his short

"Jelly" is on BluTV
"Jelly", shot as a graduation project in 2021 by Cinema and Digital Media graduate Toygun Çetin, is on BluTV now.

'Turkish coffee' and 'fortune telling' became a documentary
'Turkish coffee', which has become one of the indispensable values of our culture, inherited from centuries ago, and 'coffee fortune-telling', which many

Department of Cinema and Digital Media Talks: "NFT: A New Artistic and Creative Economy Field"
Onur Erdurak talked about his experiences in the world of NFT and his artistic production. In the event, which was held online via