Handan İpekçi is a Turkish

Turkish people

Turkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...

 screenwriter

Screenwriter

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 and film director

Film director

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Education

Handan İpekçi studied Radio and Television Studies

Television studies

Television studies is an academic discipline that deals with critical approaches to television. Usually, it is distinguished from mass-communication research, which tends to approach the topic from an empirical perspective...

 at Gazi University

Gazi University

Gazi University is a public university primarily located in Ankara, Turkey.It was established in 1926 by Kemal Atatürk as Gazi Teacher Training Institute...

, Faculty of Communication

Communication studies

Communication Studies is an academic field that deals with processes of communication, commonly defined as the sharing of symbols over distances in space and time. Hence, communication studies encompasses a wide range of topics and contexts ranging from face-to-face conversation to speeches to mass...

 in Ankara

Ankara

Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....

. The controversial feature Hejar which she wrote, produced and directed was Turkey's official submission for the 74th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Submissions for the 74th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

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Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1989	Ayaşlı ve Kiracıları	Co-director with Tunca Yönder	TV series
1993	Kemençenin Türküsü	Director	Documentary
1994	Dad is in the Army aka Babam Askerde	Director	First feature film, denied distribution
2001	Hejar aka Büyük Adam Küçük Aşk	Director, Producer, Writer
2007	Hidden Faces aka Saklı Yüzler	Director, Producer, Writer, Editor

Awards

İpekçi received local and international awards. Dad is in the Army brought her most promising director and screenwriter awards among others at Turkish film festivals, Hejar won nine awards including Golden Orange for Best Film and Best Screenplay at Antalya Film Festival and Silver Pyramid at Cairo Film Festival.

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