COMD Alumnus M. Mert Örsler (’19) has been awarded the 2022 Atom Egoyan Cinema Studies Scholarship in his Ph.D. program at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Arts and Science, Cinema Studies Institute. We congratulate Mert on this exceptional success.
Asst. Prof. Dr. Emel Özdora Akşak will receive the BAGEP (Turkish Science Academy Young Scientists Program) award this year.
We congratulate Özdora Akşak on receiving this prestigious award in this discipline.
Asst. Prof. Dr. Lutz Peschke received a TÜBİTAK award on the Horizon Europe Launch Event on March 21, 2022, in Istanbul from Prof. Hasan Mandal, President of TÜBİTAK, Signe Ratso, Deputy Director-General, DG Research, and Innovation, European Commission, Mehmet Fatih
COMD Alumna Nisan Dağ’s “When I am done Dying // Bir Nefes Daha” became the most award-winning film at the 28th International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival. The film won The Best Director, The Best Screenplay, The Best Male Actor,
“Fish Out of Water// Sudan Çıkmış Balık” by COMD alumna Nur Özkaya (’21) won the Best Animation Film Award at the National Student Films Competition at the 28th International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival. We proudly congratulate our alumna.
COMD faculty member Asst. Prof. Dr. Ayşenur Dal and IR faculty member Asst. Prof. Dr. Efe Tokdemir won the “Essay Award” at Sakıp Sabancı International Research Awards with their work “Social Psychological Dynamics in the Fight Against COVID-19 in Societies
Senior student F. Nur Özkaya won 2nd place with her short animation “Fish Out of Water/Sudan Çıkmış Balık”, at the 2nd Animation Festival, MAU Anifest, organized by Maltepe University, Faculty of Fine Arts.
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The documentary “İnci Anne” (Mother İnci, 2019), directed by Department of Communication and Design student Yiğit Can Çaylı, received the Hasan Kalyoncu Special Award at the Golden Baklava Film Academy’s International Student Film Festival, hosted by Hasan Kalyoncu Üniversitesi on
“ORSAM organized a visual content competition under the sponsorship of the European Union that will raise awareness regarding the themes of radicalization and countering violent extremism.”* A team of three Bilkent students, two of whom are own COMD, Sena Beril Toprak
Bilkent University’s Department of Communication and Design alumna Pınar Yorgancıoğlu was awarded as the winner of the National Feature Length Film Project Development Support, with her film “Karanlıkta Islık Çalanlar/Those Who Whistle After Dark” by the 30th Ankara International Film