Background
She was born on February 16, 1968 in Izmir, where her father was working as a director and producer for the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT).
director editor-in-chief female screenwriter
She was born on February 16, 1968 in Izmir, where her father was working as a director and producer for the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT).
After finishing the high school, she studied English literature and Philology at Istanbul University graduating in 1993.
Kılıçkıran worked as a writer for foreign papers including Daily News and Middle East Journal before she became editor-in-chief of the CIDC Insight. She then wrote scripts for commercials. After she realized that something was missing in the concept she decided to shoot the films of her own script.
She says "Literature trained my writing skills and my perspective toward life.
And writing is the main and most important process of a visual creative work. I think the best films come when the writer and the director are the same person."
Ceyda Aslı Kılıçkıran is one of very few female directors not only from Turkey but also from the Middle East.
She writes stories within a framework of a spiritual knowledge and uses these spiritual and metaphysical elements in her stories to give peace and humanity messages through knowledge to make her metaphors more effective. In 2007, she wrote and directed Geçerken Uğradım (Whilst on My Way), a film about the life of a modern woman portrayed by the famous Turkish actress Hale Soygazi.
lieutenant is dedicated to Duygu Asena (1946-2006), journalist, best-selling author and activist for women's rights.