Istanbul, İstanbul, Turkey
$150 - $300 / Day
Request QuoteAslihan is an independent writer-director-producer based in NYC and Istanbul. She received her BA in IR and Photography from Yale. She received her MFA in film from NYU. Her award winning short film RAZAN premiered at the Rotterdam FF in 2006 and went on to screen at dozens of festivals. Aslihan has written three scripts: FLORENCE B., winner of a Sloan Foundation Feature Writing Grant in 2007, GATED a selection to Berlinale Script Station and Thessaloniki FF Crossroads in 2010, and G.E.Z.I., a finalist for the SFFS/KRF Grant and Hubert Bals Fund in 2013. OVERDRIVE:ISTANBUL IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM, Aslihan’s first feature documentary examining the environmental and social challenges of uncontrolled urbanization, premiered at the Istanbul FF in April 2011 and was screened in NYC, Washington DC, Toronto, Mexico City, Sao Paolo, Brussels, Vienna etc. She is currently filming her feature documentary providing an intimate look into the dangerous lives of young Syrian activists from Aleppo.
Produced for Xanthe Ackerman Company
The riveting story of three Syrian friends who have escaped from Assad and ISIS into the Turkish border city of Gaziantep. The film highlights and contrasts the immense ongoing humanitarian tragedies in the region with the hopeful and dynamic spirit of these young activists.
This documentary film tells the story of Istanbul’s struggle to come to terms with accelerated population growth and car-centric policies that have dominated its development in the last five decades – issues that are challenging megacities around the world.
This documentary film tells the story of Istanbul’s struggle to come to terms with accelerated population growth and car-centric policies that have dominated its development in the last five decades – issues that are challenging megacities around the world.
After strapping on a belt of explosives a passionate young woman and would-be suicide bomber looks into the eyes of her potential victims and reexamines her convictions.
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