Ahmet Boyacioglu Festival Programmer, Director and Producer. He graduated from Ankara University with a degree in medicine and worked for twenty years as a general surgeon. He served on the executive committee of the Ankara Film Festival from 1988 to 1995. Since 1995 he has been General Secretary of the Festival on Wheels, as well as chairing the Ankara Cinema Association. Between 2005 and 2007, he took on the role of Turkey’s national representative for Eurimages. Since 2006 he is one of the partners of Greenhouse, a Development Programme for the Mediterranean Documentary Filmmakers. He is a member of the advisory board of the Meetings on the Bridge of the Istanbul Film Festival. In 2009, he produced the feature film Tales from Kars. He wrote and directed his first feature Black and White in 2010, which won the Special Award of the Jury at the Mannheim-Heidelberg Film Festival, among other awards. He is a member of the European Film Academy. He writes on cinema for an assortment of newspapers and magazines. He has been in charge of the Turkish Film Stands at the Berlin and Cannes Film Festivals and has been working as the World Cinema Coordinator at the Adana Golden Boll Film Festival.
Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara
