I have been working as a researcher, lecturer and a free-lance film-maker for more than fifteen years. I worked as a runner, PA, PC, 2nd and 1st AD as well as a script supervisor on feature films, dramas and unscripted TV in my home country of Turkey. I wrote and directed two short films funded and distributed by European Commission. Throughout my... Read More

I have been working as a researcher, lecturer and a free-lance film-maker for more than fifteen years. I worked as a runner, PA, PC, 2nd and 1st AD as well as a script supervisor on feature films, dramas and unscripted TV in my home country of Turkey. I wrote and directed two short films funded and distributed by European Commission. Throughout my PhD, I studied cognitive processes occurring during film viewing and conducted eye-tracking studies on film perception. I was awarded the prestigious Marie Curie Individual Fellowship and managed a science project at the University of London. Since I completed my PhD in 2008 I have worked at Istanbul University (Turkey), the University of Vienna (Austria), the University of Tuebingen (Germany) and the University of London (UK) and involved in a variety of projects and collaborated with professors from around the globe including Dan Levin (the scientist behind the Invisible Gorilla experiment) and Tim Smith (the scientist who introduced the edit blindness concept). I myself am known for the experiments I carried out on film perception by first-time viewers. During my postdoctoral studies at The Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development (Birkbeck College), I started to long for being on film sets. During my previous roles at Film Departments of the universities, I could still feel the magic of cinema when supervising my film students making their own short films but in a lab at a Psychology Department, something inside me started to become discoloured, quietened. So I decided to get back into the magical world of film sets but I was living in a different country and knew no one from the British film industry. This is when the EAN stepped in and helped me to find my first film job in the UK. I worked as a script supervisor on a short film funded by BBC and BFI. The director and the producer were both happy with my work and they recommended me to other directors and producers and they called me for their other projects. I am still an old new entrant in the industry and as a part of the EAN team, I am trying to help others like myself who find it difficult to step in to or step up within the British Film Industry. Read Less