Zeynep Güzel

Zeynep Güzel is a filmmaker, consultant, and the head of Doc Station at the Berlinale Talents in Berlin International Film Festival. She has produced several documentaries and written, directed, and produced her debut feature documentary „Come Rain or Shine“in 2019. Sheis currently working on her feature fiction film „When The Sun Comes Out“with which she was a fellow of Berlin Artist in Residency at Nipkow Program and the film project is funded by the Medienboard and German-Turkish co-production development fund. As former head of the Yeni Film Fund in Turkey and senior consultant to the Documentary Association of Europe, Zeynep has many years of experience working with emerging and established creatives, helping them explore their artistic vision and writing and supporting them with her strategic knowledge of international documentary film industry and a global network of like-minded professionals. Dok Leipzig Industry, Cannes Docs at Marché du Film, the Institute of Documentary Film andthe European Film Market at Berlinale are among the many other international documentary platforms where Zeynep regularly runs workshops or mentors as well as curates and moderates. She is a visiting lecturer at The Norwegian Film School in Lillehammer. Since 2022 Zeynep is the programming consultant at International Documentary Association’s biennial conference “Getting Real”and a member of European Film Academy.