A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Ankara, Turkey
Ayşegül Selenga Taşkent is a Turkish filmmaker from Ankara. Her passion and interest for art and cinema started at an early age and after college pushed her to pursue filmmaking abroad. She received MA degree in Media Studies in England. In 2007, with a full scholarship, she earned an MFA degree in Media Arts Production at SUNY, Buffalo, USA. Her first documentary Volga, Volga: Living with Schizophrenia (2008) was screened in international festivals and won the Jury Prize in the 19th Ankara International Film Festival. Her second documentary Girls of Hope (2012) received the 2012 Rome Independent Film Festival Honorable Mention Award. In her works, Ayşegül Selenga Taşkent’s art focuses on social issues, human rights, love and peace. Through her work, she hopes to contribute to make the world a better place.
Cinematography:
2011 Girls of Hope
Director:
2011 Girls of Hope
2019 Ovacik
Director of Photography:
2011 Girls of Hope
2019 Ovacik
Editor:
2011 Girls of Hope
2019 Ovacik
Producer:
2011 Behind the Walls
2011 Girls of Hope
2019 Ovacik
Sound:
2011 Behind the Walls
2011 Girls of Hope
2019 Ovacik
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Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.