Name
Derya Durmaz
Biography
Derya Durmaz’s 1st short film ZIAZAN received 11 awards and was covered in the Washington Post. Her 2nd short Mother Virgin No More premiered at the Berlinale Generations. She is an alumna of BERLINALE TALENTS, Toronto TIFF TALENT LAB, FIRST FILMS FIRST and Film Independent GLOBAL MEDIA MAKERS program. Her 1st feature film project won Berlinale Talent Project Market TALENT HIGHLIGHT AWARD.
Her series of interdisciplinary performance, installation, exhibition projects which look into gender equality and questions gender roles identified by the society, received support from various German cultural funds.
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Artist Statement
"I am a writer, director, and performer who was born in Germany and raised in Turkey. I studied Acting, Economy and Human Rights Law, which led me to work in both arts and NGO fields in different parts of the world. I write texts, make films and create/take part in performances and installation/exhibitions focusing on questions of borders (physical and psychological), identity, sense of belonging and human nature, where I also frequently underline the hypocrisies and inconsistencies in the rhetorics that govern the political, social and personal spaces".