Director/Producer, Nihan Gider Işıkman is also a faculty member at Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey. She teaches courses such as Documentary Cinema, Documentary Film Production, Directing in Cinema, and Production in Cinema. Her work focuses on cinema, documentary cinema, which is an important field in the creative industries, and different narrative forms in documentary cinema within the framework of the re-presentation of reality. She won awards with the documentary films she produced and directed, and took part in international festival programs.