Ebru Ceylan was born in Ankara, Turkey, 1976. After graduating from the film and TV department of Marmara University, Istanbul, she achieved her master’s degree at the Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts. Her first short film On the Edge (1998) was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. Ceylan was the lead actress in the feature Climates (2006). She was also the art director of Three Monkeys (2008) and co-scriptwriter of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival Palme D’Or winner Winter Sleep (2014).
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and emerging. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
