Handan İpekçi

 
Style of Art : Film director, producer, screenwriter
Branch of Art : Film
Art Profile :

Handan İpekçi was born in Ankara in 1956. She graduated from the Department of Radio-Television in the School of Press at Gazi University. She started working as an assistant in the TRT program "Hanımlar Sizin için". After preparing many TV drama series, she shot documentary films as an assistant director. In 1993, İpekçi shot her first documentary film "Kemençenin Türküsü", which was written by the poet Yaşar Miraç. In 1994, İpekçi shot her first long film "Babam Askerde", and received many awards. It was screened in the Panorama Bolume of the Berlin Film Festival in 1995. Her film "Büyük Adam Küçük Aşk" was awarded the "Best Film" in the Antalya Film Festival. Currently, İpekçi lives and works in Istanbul.

Awards:
2001, Antalya Altın Portakal Film Festival, the Best Film Award, "Büyük Adam Küçük Aşk"
2001, Antalya Altın Portakal Film Festival, the Best Scenario Award, "Büyük Adam Küçük Aşk"
2002, Cairo International Film Festival, the Best Scenario Award, "Büyük Adam Küçük Aşk"
2002, Cairo International Film Festival, the Silver Pyramid Award, "Büyük Adam Küçük Aşk"
2002, Cairo International Film Festival, nominated to the Golden Pyramid Award, "Büyük Adam Küçük Aşk"
2002, Cologne Mediterranean Film Festival, the Best Scenario Award, "Büyük Adam Küçük Aşk"
2003, International Istanbul Film Festival, Public Award, "Büyük Adam Küçük Aşk"
2003, International Istanbul Film Festival, nominated to the Best Film Award, "Büyük Adam Küçük Aşk"

Films as a director:
Ayaşlı ve Kiracıları (1989)
Babam Askerde (1994)
Büyük Adam Küçük Aşk (2001)
Saklı Yüzler (2006)
Çınar Ağacı (2011)

Films as a screenwriter:
Babam Askerde (1994)
Büyük Adam Küçük Aşk (2001)
Saklı Yüzler (2006)
Çınar Ağacı (2011)

Films as a producer:
Babam Askerde (1994)
Büyük Adam Küçük Aşk (2001)
Saklı Yüzler (2006)

Films as an actor:
Ayaşlı ve Kiracıları (1989)
Can Şenliği (1989)
 
Films as an assistant director:
Kanunun Ötesinde (1992)
Yağmur Beklerken (1992)
Sarı Tebessüm (1992)
İlk Aşk (1991)
Ayaşlı ve Kiracıları (1989)
Can Şenliği (1989)

Reference: sinemalar.com, sinematurk.com, tr.wikipedia.org, kameraarkasi.org, google.com.tr/images

City : Istanbul
Country : Turkey
Preferred Lang. : Turkish / English
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