Zeynep Dadak
Dr., Screenwriter & Director, Fenafilm
Zeynep Dadak holds a PhD from the Cinema Studies Department at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She was a member of Altyazı Monthly Film Magazine’s editorial board between 2004 and 2020. Her debut feature film Mavi Dalga (The Blue Wave, 2013), co-directed by Merve Kayan, had its international premiere at the 64th Berlin Film Festival, receiving three awards at Antalya Film Festival. Her films including the feature length documentary Ah Gözel İstanbul (Invisible to the Eye, 2020) were screened at prestigious film festivals such as Rotterdam, Sheffield, AFI and Dokufest. Zeynep Dadak was selected for the Medienboard Artist in Residence in Berlin in 2018 and Berlin Senate Fellowship in 2019. She directed a mini-series called Terapist (The Therapist) for the online platform GAIN in 2021. Currently, Zeynep teaches film at Istanbul Kadir Has University and NYU Berlin; she works as a consultant and tutor for Berlinale Co-Production Market and Torino Film Lab. Based in Berlin and Istanbul, she is working on her new feature film, Electric Sleep.
Speaker’s Events
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Talk | On the Trail of a Gaze: Invisible to the Eye | 05 Oct 2023 17:30 | 18:30 |