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Bessy Adut is a film director, producer and screenwriter born in Istanbul, Turkey and lives in the United States. She holds an M.F.A. in Film Directing from CalArts as a Fulbright Alumni and a B.A. in Film & Television from Istanbul Bilgi University. She was a screenplay grant winner in Turkey, she wrote and directed “Tolerance” and “Strange Little Girl” screened in several international festivals in Los Angeles “Pasadena Art Center Film Festival winner”, New York “Brooklyn Art Film Festival” and Istanbul “Akbank Film Festival winner”. She directed and hosted an international documentary “Mysteries of Cinema” for Television. She has worked as a freelance Assistant Director, Script Supervisor and Production Assistant in commercials, independent films and Television formats. She also taught “Film Production” and “Film Editing” classes in University. She worked as a freelance videographer/photographer mostly for art events and promo videos. She worked as 1st Assistant Director in the indie movie “Tinker” that is in Film Festival circuit right now. She also worked as a 1st Assistant Director at “Everything Happens at Once” an indie science fiction.
She started her own business in 2015 and opened “Queen B. Film Hive” for all kinds of Film and Television productions in 2015. She is currently developing her original feature screenplays and a TV dramedy at UCLA Professional Screenwriting Program. She continues to work as a Freelance Production Coordinator/Manager, Assistant Director and Script Supervisor.
Her goal is to work in feature film projects, helping writers/directors to accomplish their dream projects with success. She aspires to be staffed in Television and work in Writers Room. Her dream is to direct one of the film or television screenplays she wrote someday.