Sinan Çetin

Sinan Çetin was born in Van in 1953. He graduated from the Faculty of Art History at Hacettepe University. After being engaged in graphic art, painting and photography, he switched his forcus to film. Since he shot his first film in 1980, he has been working as a film director. In 1993, one of his films “Berlin in Berlin” broke the record of box office sales. Since then he has shot 11 feature films and has become one of the most famous and successful directors in Turkey. Since 1987, he has also directed and produced commercial films at his company Plato films. Plato films, which was founded by Sinan Çetin in 1986, became one of the biggest film making companies and won many awards for commercial films. His company has become a kind of school and has produced many directors, actors, scriptwriters and technical staffs. Sinan Çetin has taught at several Universities and founded the Plato School to train potential young filmmakers and artists.