Biography

Özcan Alper (b. 1975 Hopa, Artvin) is a Turkish director and screenwriter.

He was born in Hopa district of Artvin. He graduated from Trabzon High School. In 1992, he started at Istanbul University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics. In 1996, he entered Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters, Department of History of Science and graduated in 2003.

Since 1996, he has participated in cinema workshops in places such as Mesopotamia Cultural Center, Nazim Culture House (now Nazim Hikmet Cultural Center).

Since 2000, he worked as an assistant in various motion pictures, including Yesim Ustaoglu's films.

The short "Momi" is the first film shot in "Hemsin". "Tokai City'de Melankoli ve Rapsodi/Melancholy and Rhapsody in Tokai City" is a documentary shot in Japan.

"Bir Bilimadamiyla Zaman Enleminde Yolculuk / A Journey through the Time Latitude with a Scientist" is his other documentary.

Alper won awards in many festivals with his first feature-length film, "Sonbahar/Autumn", which was released on December 19, 2008.

While the successful director will meet with the audience with the "Asiklar bayrami" he made for Netflix in 2022, he will compete with the film "Karanlik Gece" at the Antalya Film Festival.
- IMDb mini biography by: yusufpiskin