Koray Sevindi

He was born in Istanbul, Turkey. After studying Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering at Istanbul Technical University, he worked as an assistant director in various feature films, short films, documentaries, and commercials. After that, he studied filmmaking at the New York Film Academy in the USA. His Bread (2012) short film was screened at nearly 70 international film festivals and won 13 awards. He received production support from the animation project The Head (2014) from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the film was screened at nearly 40 international film festivals and won 6 awards. He was a jury member at the 8th Pentedattilo Film Festival in Italy. He made two more animated films called Same (2016) for the 3rd Istanbul Triennial and Cycle (2016) for TRT. He was co-producer in the feature film Under the Sky (2016) and director in the documentary Migration (2022). He worked as an animation director in the documentary series (22 episodes) Turning Points in World History, documentaries the Hidden Kingdom, and Fuat Sezgin for TRT. He gave seminars and lectures on cinema in many organizations and universities. He completed his master's degree and Ph.D. in Cinema Studies at Marmara University, Turkey. He worked as a film critic in the Hayal Perdesi Cinema Magazine for eight years. He still works as an academician at Istanbul Medeniyet University and continues his practical and theoretical studies on cinema and animation.