Fire lit! 🔥 Representation
Despite some remaining boxes to tick, I have realized some of my resolutions. I am now signed with two agencies, one in my current home, The Netherlands, and the other in my native home, Turkey.
Holy Guacamole! Whaaat?!
It was a Dutch director, curious about my availability for his upcoming feature. Yes! It did happen. Just like a memory told in …
A tale of belonging vs Search for an agent
It is just that giant question mark in me that remains unanswered, which I dyingly command to unravel. Why does belonging matter so much in my profession's tale that demands …
Shit-shows & Marvellous Milestones
Wow! It has been two years since my last post. I honestly do not even know where to start. What I know now and what matters is that I am alive, healthy, happy and like my usual self in my natural habitat with the addition of a …
2018: High on Pure, Toxic Love
The month of January will unravel two long-awaited audition call-backs for amazing projects I have been crossing my fingers for. They are both European on a wider scope and …
A Month of Firsts
I completed my first 48Hour film challenge. I co-produced and -wrote the film and acted in it; not to forget to mention that I also designed the poster…
Rewarding Adventures of a Lazy July
Having such a fun and rewarding photoshoot and managing the time so efficiently was truly a wow! accomplishment. A functioning team is a blast!..
Storytelling, by acting, typing or directing; Same Same?
I have been telling stories, graphically first. Communicating them via emotional imagery, shapes and visual elements. Reaching out to the ones that sniff out with their eyes. Then, …
May Conflicts and Discoveries
Here I am on a beautiful Italian island at a Script Analysis course and I am homesick. Period. Neither the beautiful little village I am in nor the wonderful intensity of the course makes it up for me…
Headshots, More Than Pretty Pictures
Headshots are a lot deeper than pretty pictures. They are frames of stories to be told. Therefore, it is crucial to work with a photographer that can see you, let you create and capture it in the right moment…
Scene Night and Stage Acting
I adore camera acting because I love that medium most. However, stage is different. Stage acting is an interactive meeting with your audience, a more analog interplay, a true handshake…
New Set Of Tools As A Camera Actor!
My actor brain started questioning intellectually but chose eventually to follow the instructions obediently to see the impact in real time. I could then set loose and simply re-focus…
Why Do I Act?
For as long as I can remember, acting has been my biggest passion. Being an actor was the first thing I wanted to do in life. I still remember my first audition for a school play when I was 12 years old…
Now I am also a Bullet Model!
I had a photography session this week. What a pleasure to start the session with the question "So, what shall we listen to?" and how lucky I am that we both like Chet Baker :) …
Commercial Shooting is, Auditioning for It is not, fun!
Everything is in haste as if you are in an ant colony, things get arranged quickly and all that work and energy is only for some seconds at the end. Such rhythm and pressure calls for creativity, usually…
The Method is calling back!
Until my training in The Method, I have not studied acting anywhere. I certainly had no traditional training where many in Europe would find unfortunate. Me, not. No doubt, how precious right education is. I think…