Gülsel Özkan

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Gülsel Özkan (2015)

Gülsel Özkan (* 1966 in Malatya , Turkey ) is a German film director and screenwriter.

Özkan began studying film at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg in 1987 , which she graduated with honors. She has been working as a freelance filmmaker, dramaturge and producer since 1989, realizing documentaries and features for ARD, arte, NDR, WDR, BR, DW Phönix, H3, MDR and SFB as well as international broadcasters such as Spain TVE, 3sat and Planet France. Özkan also works as a director and screenwriter for documentaries and feature films. Her films have been broadcast internationally and have been nominated several times.

Özkan has been working with Ludger Pfanz on new dramaturgical models since 2012. With a combination of classic media and film dramaturgy, they developed storytelling for "space-time narratives" and "space-time experiences" for new digital, multimedia, transmedial and interactive media.

Özkan also works as a jury member and jury president at many national and international festivals, including the "Türk Film Festival" in Mannheim / Heidelberg, the "Ökofilmfestival" in Freiburg, the "African International Woman Film Festival" in Harare , and the "CEVE Festival" in Beijing and won the VR Festival in Nanchang .

Gülsel Özkan is the managing director of Future Design Company GmbH (previously Planet Film GmbH) and artistic director of the Beyond Festival, which has been taking place in Karlsruhe since 2011 .

Filmography

  • 2005: Greenpeace versus Shell (documentary)
  • 2002: The illegal worker (short film)
  • 1999: Waldeslust. The Germans and the forest
  • 1999: Thorns in My Eye (Documentary)
  • 1997: Circumcision
  • 1997: Tai Chi Chuan (documentary)
  • 1996: the hidden face
  • 1996: The Voice of Heaven
  • 1996: Las Américas (documentary)
  • 1993: Dances with Tailings (documentary)
  • 1992: El Oro Negro (documentary)
  • 1992: Silent Worlds FRG (documentary film)
  • 1991: Que Todos se Levanten (documentary)
  • 1989: The New Wall (Documentary)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Gözetleme Kulesi” (“Watchtower”) by Pelin Esmer . April 14, 2014. Accessed on February 16, 2020: "Here is the jury's reasoning, consisting of [...] Gülsel Özkan (director, 3D producer), [...]"
  2. ↑ Women urged to speak through film . July 23, 2015. Accessed on February 16, 2020: "International guests to grace the festival include [...], Gülsel Özkan and Ludger Pfanz both from Germany, ..."
  3. ^ Website of Planet Film GmbH about Gülsel Özkan
  4. ↑ Beyond Festival about Gülsel Özkan . January 2020. Accessed February 16, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Özkan, Gülsel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Malatya , Turkey