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Koray Sevindi

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Biography

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 short film Bread (2012) was screened at nearly 70 international film festivals and won 13 awards. He received production support from the animation project "The Head" (2014) by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the film was screened at nearly 40 international film festivals, winning six awards. He was a jury member at the 8th Pentedattilo Film Festival in Italy. He created two additional animated films: Same (2016) for the 3rd Istanbul Triennial and Cycle (2016) for TRT. He was a co-producer in the feature film Under the Sky (2016) and the director in the documentary Migration (2022). He worked as an animation director on the documentary series "Turning Points in World History" (22 episodes), as well as on documentaries such as "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.

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