Ceyda Asli Kiliçkiran

Ceyda Asli Kiliçkiran is one of very few female directors not only from Turkey but also from the Middle East. She is the only Turkish director working on films concerning women, spiritualism and realization. Her work focuses on the identity, equality and liberty of Muslim women and women worldwide. She writes stories within a framework of a spiritual knowledge and uses these spiritual and metaphysical elements in her stories to give peace and humanity messages through knowledge to make her metaphors more effective. After Graduating from Istanbul University Department of English Literature, she wrote for publications such as Daily News and Middle East Journal on the trials and tribulations of Middle Eastern women. She was also the Editor-in-Chief of CIDC Insight Journal. It gave her an opportunity to create advertising campaigns and to shoot TV commercials. This jettisoned her into a film making career following the path of her father who was also a prominent filmmaker in Turkey. She has been filming her own scripts for the past five years. She is also known as the youngest female director of the Turkish Cinema.