Pelin Çılgın

Pelin Çılgın is a Turkish film critic, curator, creative, and scholar. (...) Their film criticism has been published bilingually in English and Turkish on online platforms including Cineuropa, Eastern Kicks, Bağımsız Sinema, and A-part, among others. They also program and curate films for Norway-based Asian cultural NGO Fra Øst til Nord and Turkey-based cinema organization Fil’m Hafızası while also serving as the head of programming for official selections for India-based SPHERE's film and video festival World Cinema Carnival. In addition, they were on the pre-selection committee for the 2022/2023 New Orleans Film Festival, USA. Their 2020 debut live-action short film “natür & mort” has been selected for several international film festivals and one national art exhibition. Since 2023, they have been revisiting the realm of filmmaking by producing a mid-length creative documentary (currently in development/research) and associate producing a narrative short film (currently in financing/co-producer search stage). Their first peer-reviewed academic article, "Examining the Female Immigrant and Minority Representation in Shunji Iwai’s Swallowtail Butterfly", was published in REFLEKTIF Journal of Social Sciences in January 2023. They have also presented at many conferences on film festivals, film curating, and film studies. Interested in foreign language learning as well, they are a polyglot in Turkish, English, Japanese, and Mandarin Chinese. Alumnus of GoCritic! workshop at Fest Anca in Slovakia, Talents Sarajevo at Sarajevo Film Festival, People's Jury at Five Flavors Asian Film Festival in Poland, Berlinale Talents at Berlinale (duh!), and FEFF Campus at Far East Film Festival in Italy. Open to work and other types of collaborations in film criticism, film curating/programming, film academia, and filmmaking. Main areas of interest include East Asian cinema with a focus on Japan and Greater China, genre films with a focus on horror, anime/animation, documentary, transmedia works, and queer feminist readings of visual media. https://www.linkedin.com/in/hpcilgin/ https://www.bagimsizsinema.com/author/h-p-cilgin https://www.youtube.com/@hpcilgin https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pelin-Cilgin