Ayça Çiftçi

Ayça Çiftçi is a faculty member in the Department of Film at Istanbul Bilgi University. She teaches courses on creative documentary production, city films, video essays, and film grammar. 

After completing her BA in Film and MA in Cultural Studies, she received her PhD in Media Arts from the University of London's Royal Holloway in 2015. She has taught various theoretical and practical film courses at different universities and institutions, and has supervised numerous short film projects. Her short films Impressions from a Summer and Meanwhile have been screened at the Istanbul Film Festival, Ankara Film Festival, Istanbul Modern, Documentarist, Cologne Türkisch Film Festival, and Berlin HIVE Short Film Days, among others. Her feature-length fiction project, Saadet, currently in development, received an award at Meetings on the Bridge. Since 2006, she has been a film critic and a member of the editorial board of Altyazı Cinema Magazine.