Writer and director Senem Tüzen holds a degree in cinema from the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts Academy of Istanbul. Her short films Milk and Chocolate and Unus Mundus were both nominated in 2009 for the Turkish Film Critics Association award and Unus Mundus won Best Short Film. Tüzen also works as an editor, cinematographer and producer on short, feature and documentary films. Motherland (2015), her debut feature film, premiered at International Critics’ Week at the 72nd Venice Film Festival and won five awards at the Adana International Film Festival. It was been selected for the Warsaw, Haifa, Goteborg and Reykjavik International Film Festivals.
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.
