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Gökçe Işıl Tuna

Gökçe Işıl Tuna is a film producer. She founded Motiva Film in 2011. She has produced films and documentaries with international collaborations such as Where Is My Mother Tongue, Ich Liebe Dich, Swaying Waterlily and Mold. The films she produced participated in important film festivals and won number of awards. In 2020, she made the film, Cranes Can't Live Alone, directed by Bahman Ghobadi.

İpek Türktan Kaynak

İpek Türktan Kaynak is an actress working for cinema and theater. She studied at Bilkent University, Faculty of Music and Performing Arts, Drama and Acting Department. She won the Best Female Actress Award at Malatya International Film Festival and Sadri Alışık Awards for her role in the film The Impeccables. The Impeccables, Siren’s Call, Debt, Passed by Censor are some of the films she starred in.

Kaan Karsan

Born in Istanbul in 1990, Kaan Karsan moved to Germany to study engineering and established Ekşi Sinema there, a website on cinema. He returned to Turkey to work as a film critic. He graduated from the Department of International Relations at Istanbul Bilgi University. Currently he is writing film articles for different media, working as the producer of the Youtube channel called Kutsal Motor and serving as a consultant for Istanbul Film Festival.