Ceyda Asli Kılıçkıran.
English: CEYDA ASLI KILIÇKIRAN-/TURKISH FILMMAKER Ceyda Aslı Kılıçkıran was born in Feb16th-1968 and raised in İzmir/Turkey, where her father was a director and producer for the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT). “My father always taught me how [important] the background of a creative work is,” said Kılıçkıran. in one of her interviews, “It's a family job.”She began making films after studying English literature at İstanbul University. “At first, I was writing scripts for commercials, but after they had been shot ..Ceyda Asli is one of very few female directors not only from Turkey but also from the Middle East. She is the only Turkish director working on films concerning women, spiritualism and realization. Early Career: After Graduating from Istanbul University Department of English Literature, she wrote for publications such as Daily News and Middle East Journal on the trials and tribulations of Middle Eastern women. She was also the Editor-in-Chief of CIDC Insight Journal. It gave her an opportunity to create advertising campaigns and to shoot TV commercials. This jettisoned her into filmmaking. She has been... filming her own scripts for the past five years. She is also known as the youngest female director of the Turkish Cinema. PRESENT: The award winning artist was also selected as one of the 5 Most Successful Entrepreneur Women of Turkey in 2009 by Turkish Garanti Bank, KAGDER (Women Entrepreneur Association,) and KOB (Small and Medium Administration Union) . KILIÇKIRAN then met Terry Porter, an outstanding Hollywood manager in one of her bussiness trips to USA , she then began to be represented by him in Hollywood.. In 2009, Her name appeared on U.S media with a Turkish play on Broadway-New York in which Americans acted in English. Therefore she became the first Turkish producer staged a play on Broadway. EARLY FILMS: 2004----I LOVE MY INDEPENDENCE AND YOU: AWARDS: Denver Film Festival USA. 2005- WATERMARK: AWARDS: Festival Les Toiles De Mer 2005 France 2006- A PATCH OF FREEDOM : About Turkish diplomats rescuing dozens of Jewish academics from Nazi Germany, AWARDS. Nominated: 42nd Golden Orange-Antalya Film Festival/ Turkey 2007-PRESENT 2007- WHILST ON MY WAY: A story of a woman set against a backdrop of the science and spirituality of quantum physicsis. The film talks about a Turkish woman who gets lost between the materialistic world and her spiritual inner world. A young woman working on a project on quantum physics and underlines the conflict between what the society pushes her to be and what she wants to be. Society makes her stay within a limited circle while she has a universal vision of life. The film has a deep metaphor and Kılıçkıran dedicated the film to the late author Duygu Asena, whose groundbreaking magazines and bestselling books, including the once-banned “Kadının Adı Yok” (The Woman Has No Name), promoted women's rights in Turkey. “Asena was a brave woman who dared to talk about the sexual freedom of women in the 1980s. Her books are still controversial in the country.“ . 2008- THE LOCK: The story of "AFİFE JALE", The first Muslim Turkish woman on stage. In Kılıçkıran's other major feature, “Kilit” (The Lock), Müjde Ar plays a modern actress who is the reincarnation of Afife Jale, a rule-breaking, culture-challenging Turkish actress who lived from 1902 to 1941. “Afife Jale is also another important character in history. She was the first Muslim actress during the era when Muslim women were banned from acting. She also fought against radicals her entire life. … The film is about the parallel lives of BERNA who is a contemporary woman and AFİFE JALE who was the first Muslim woman on stage in history. We observe the revolt of the two women from different generations against fundamentalists.The two women in fact question their existence in the multi dimensional universe. Award: ‘Best Women Work of the Year’ by the Turkey Women’s Library and Information Centre Foundation. 2010: THE TRANSITION: The documentary was initiated first in India's Temple of Maduban. It continued with interviews in Istanbul. Brahma Kumaris (The World's Spiritual University) which is an Indian Spiritual Organization supported the film while the music of the project was made by Anjelika Akbar. The interviews were realized with those who are meditation and spiritual knowledge lecturers and who have shaped their lives within the spiritual knowledge. The project discussed why they chose such a spiritual life with leaving the physical World and their all relations behind and shut themselves in the Spiritual centers studying the knowledge which is based on all Holy Scriptures. Focusing on the increasing number of those who talk about a transition period and chose to live celibate lives, the purpose of the project is bringing the spiritualism into the light in the era in which matter is dominant upon moral values and virtues. The people from different belief systems being interviewed with talk on many common points such as a 'period of awakening' and 'realization' in the present time which is called the Dark Age in the scriptures. People from different nations and religions who have high status and careers in the outside World, talk on a Golden Age which is being expected to come after the present Dark Age full of hate, anger, ego and battles. Therefore, the questions on 'The law of Karma' , 'Reincarnation' , 'The leap to the 5th dimension', 'Those who already entered the 4th dimension', along with ' The importance of forgiveness in spiritualism', 'The techniques to gain the reality of the 4th dimension in today's world', Nostradamus', The coming of prophets from incorporeal world' The concept of God' The benefits of meditation', 2012-the end of Mayan calendar', The cycle of time', 'Einstein's theory of relativity' find answers in the documentary. The project is actually based upon the human rights and the nuclear seasoning. Therefore, it surfaces the brotherhood of all religions and aims to serve the Peace of the World. 2014: KILIÇKIRAN acted as the jury of International Wine Country Fılm Festival in