KAAN ATİLLA TAŞKIN
SCRIPTWRITER & DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY
Kaan Atilla TAŞKIN was born in 1988 in Trabzon.
In 2011 he graduated from Istanbul University Radio, Cinema and TV Department.
She studied film acting at Plato Film School with Ayla Algan.
He worked as an assistant director in various films.
In 2013, he studied cinema directing at Istanbul Cinema Center for eight months.
He shot his first short film- Bilyali- in Trabzon with his family.
Soon after he shot another short films -Cuckoo -.
His short films have been screened at many national and international festivals .
In 2017, he completed his first feature film,- Beyond the Clouds- and his short film - The Sense.
His film- Beyond the Clouds - received national awards and –The Sense - short film received many national and international awards. In 2018,he awarded by his feature film - Self-Sacrificing Grandmothers Of Black Sea Region which has supported by Ministry of Culture of TURKEY
Then he founded Dandelion Film in 2018. Kaan Atilla Taşkın, who is married, finished the script of his second feature film- When Dandelions Bloom.
FİLMOGRAPHY
1 - SELF-SACRIFICING GRANDMOTHERS OF BLACK SEA -2018
(Screenwriter and Director) - (Documentary Feature Film Second)
2- BEYOND THE CLOUDS - 2017
(Screenwriter and Director) - (First Feature Film)
SHORT FILMS
3- THE SENSE -2017
(Screenwriter and Director)
4- CUCKOO - 2014
(Screenwriter and Director)
5-Bilyali -2013
(Screenwriter and Director)
AWARDS
1- SELF-SACRIFICING GRANDMOTHERS OF BLACK SEA (Documentary Feature Film Second)
- Turkish World Documentary Film Festival Professional Category - Best Third Film – 2018
- 13th Boston Turkish Documentary and Short Film Competition Documentary Category Special Mention Award – 2018
2- BEYOND THE CLOUDS - (First Feature Film) -2017 - Seoul Guro International Kids Film Festival - Intercultural Film Award - 2019
- 5th Antakya International Film Festival - Promising Director - 2017
- 5th Antalya International Film Festival - Best Original Music (İmera) - 2017
- 1.Trabzon International Film Festival - Best Promising Actor (Yunus Emre Taşkın)
- 1. Trabzon Uluslararası Film Festivali - En İyi Özgün Müzik (İmera) – 2017 - Eurasia International Monthly Film Festival - Best Director – Russia, Moscow – 2017
3- Karib (THE SENSE) – KISA FILM – 2017 – SHORT FILM
- ASFF, As Film Festival - Special Mention Award -2017 -Italy, Rome
- African Smartphone International Film Festival - Best Short Film -2017- Nigeria, Lagos
- Roma Cinema Doc Film Festival - Best Short Film - July - 2017- Italy, Rome
- Blue Danube Film Festival - Special Jury Award - 2017 - Austria, Vienna
4- GUGUK KUŞU – (CUCKOO) KISA FİLM – 2017 - SHORT FILM - Seoul Guro International Kids Film Festival - Best Short Film Award - 2019