Agnès Varda was a Belgium-born French film director, screenwriter, photographer, and artist. Her pioneering work was central to the development of the widely influential French New Wave film movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Her films focused on achieving documentary realism, addressing women's issues, and other social commentary, with a distinctive experimental style.
Mary Ellen Mark was an American photographer known for her photojournalism, documentary photography, portraiture, and advertising photography. She photographed people who were "away from mainstream society and toward its more interesting, often troubled fringes".
Bikem Ekberzade is a Turkish journalist, photojournalist and documentary photographer. She is known for her work on forced migration in the Balkans, Africa, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Since the 1990s, she has worked with numerous news outlets, including CNN International, Newsweek, Associated Press, Businessweek, Der Spiegel, and The New York Times. Ekberzade was selected the photographer of the month by European Press Network World Reporter in 2002. She was presented an award for her documentary work on refugees by UNHCR in 2004.
Robert Grosvenor Gardner was an American academic, anthropologist, and documentary filmmaker who was the Director of the Film Study Center at Harvard University from 1956 to 1997. He is known for his work in the field of visual anthropology and films like the National Film Registry inductee Dead Birds and Forest of Bliss. In 2011, a retrospective of his work was held at Film Forum, New York.
Aclan Bates is an American film and theatre director who divides his time between Los Angeles and Ankara. He is a working actor/director in the Turkish State Theatres.
Yvonne Welbon is an American independent film director, producer, and screenwriter based in Chicago. She is known for her films, Living with Pride:Ruth C. Ellis @ 100 (1999), Sisters in Cinema (2003), and Monique (1992).
Emine Gülbahar Mükrime Hatun, was consort of Sultan Mehmed II, and mother of Sultan Bayezid II.
Zeena Galatea Schreck, known professionally by her mononymous artist name ZEENA, is a Berlin-based American visual and musical artist, author and the spiritual leader of the Sethian Liberation Movement (SLM), which she founded in 2002.
Özcan Alper is a Turkish film director and screenwriter of Hemshin descent.
Marion "Muffie" Meyer is an American director, whose productions include documentaries, theatrical features, television series and children’s films. Films that she directed are the recipients of two Emmy Awards, CINE Golden Eagles, the Japan Prize, Christopher Awards, the Freddie Award, the Columbia-DuPont, and the Peabody Awards. Her work has been selected for festivals in Japan, Greece, London, Edinburgh, Cannes, Toronto, Chicago and New York, and she has been twice nominated by the Directors Guild of America.
Ciro Cappellari is film director, cinematographer, and screenwriter based in Berlin, Germany.
Ceyda Aslı Kılıçkıran is a Turkish female screenwriter and film director.
Tayfun Belet is a Turkish film director, screenwriter, producer and film editor.
Gülnaz Karataş, nom de guerre, Berîtan, was a female fighter of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). She became a Kurdish cultural figure after dying, and a symbol of women within the guerrilla movement.
Turkish Film Critics Association is a non-governmental organization based in Istanbul, founded in 1977 by film critic Atilla Dorsay. It distributes the annual Turkish Film Critics Association Awards and also a member of the International Federation of Film Critics.
Fatoş Sezer was a Turkish actress.
Seher Devrim Yakut is a Turkish actress.
Lisa Rinzler is an American cinematographer who works on both feature films and documentaries. She has worked with Wim Wenders, Martin Scorsese, the Hughes Brothers and Tamra Davis.
Bonnie Timmermann is an American casting director and producer for film, television and theatre, perhaps best known for her work on the TV series Miami Vice and for her ongoing collaboration with the show's creator, Michael Mann.
Fadik Sevin Atasoy is a Turkish actress, scriptwriter, film director, and writer.
