Deniz Akçay Katıksız

Deniz Akçay Katıksız — Biography

Deniz Akçay Katıksız is a screenwriter and director from İzmir who began by writing for television and then stood out in cinema with her first feature, Köksüz (Nobody's Home, 2013). She wrote the film, directed it and produced it.

She graduated from Ege University's Faculty of Communication, in radio, television and cinema, in 2004, but had entered the industry earlier, in 2000, as a screenwriter on the series Kahkaha Show. Her television years continued with series such as Bitmeyen Şarkı and İstanbullu Gelin. In 2006 she took directing and editing classes at the New York Film Academy.

Köksüz screened at the Venice Film Festival in 2013 and was nominated for the Lion of the Future; its Golden Boll screening drew a standing ovation. That same year it won the Seyfi Teoman Best First Film Award at the 32nd Istanbul International Film Festival and the Yılmaz Güney Award at the 20th Golden Boll Film Festival. In 2014 it was named best film in Nuremberg and was shown in her home city of İzmir, and in 2015 Katıksız received the Mahmut Tali Öngören Best Screenplay Award from the Turkish Film Critics Association. Since 2016 she has worked with her sister in the Teşriki Mesai scriptwriting group she founded with friends, and she was part of the team of the 2017 film Sonsuz Aşk.