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Zeynep Özbatur Atakan. Producer: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia. Zeynep Atakan, who graduated from Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Cinema and Television, worked actively in the advertising sector between 1986-1999 and specialised in the field of production during these years.
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Zeynep Özbatur Atakan is a film producer whose recent credits include the award-winning Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011), Three Monkeys (2008) and Climates (2002), all directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. She graduated from Marmara University Department of Cinema and Television in 1991.
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia ( Turkish: Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da) is a 2011 internationally co-produced drama film, co-written and directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan based on the true experience of one of the film's writers, telling the story of a group of men who search for a dead body on the Anatolian steppe.
Atakan has been the chairwoman of SE-YAP, the Turkish Guild of Film Producers, since 2011. Since 2014, she is a vice president of EWA, the European Women’s Audiovisual Network. She won the Bilge Olgaç Achievement Award at the 17 th Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival in 2014.
Nov 27, 2015 · We sat down with Zeynep Özbatur Atakan to discuss the current state of Turkish Cinema, the growing presence of women in the industry, and her programming of the Turkish Waves selection at Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival.
Zeynep Özbatur Atakan. Producer: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia. Zeynep Atakan, who graduated from Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Cinema and Television, worked actively in the advertising sector between 1986-1999 and specialised in the field of production during these years.
Zeynep Özbatur Atakan started working in advertisement industry before transitioning to film industry. In 2007, she founded her production company ZeynoFilm and produced internationally acclaimed films.
