Ayça Çiftçi

Ayça Çiftçi is an assistant professor in the Department of Film at Istanbul Bilgi University. She completed her PhD in Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is a film critic and a member of the editorial board of Altyazı Cinema Magazine. She recently directed two short films titled Impressions of a Summer (2020) and Meanwhile Yet (2022). She is currently teaching at the Film and Television department at Istanbul Bilgi University. She is also a researcher at Kadir Has University, working for the research project entitled “Women on Screen and Behind the Camera: A Contemporary Outlook to Representation and Labor of Women in Film and TV Industries in Turkey”.