Sinan Çetin
- Film director
- producer
- publisher
Sinan Çetin (born 1 March 1953) is a Turkish film director, actor, and producer. He won the best director award at the 12th Dhaka International Film Festival.
Çetin was born as one of the eight children of a customs officer.[2] He is of maternal Azeri and paternal Georgian descent.[3] He studied art history at Hacettepe University. Çetin has produced full-length films and television series, and foremost, commercials. He is best known in the English-speaking world for his 1999 film Propaganda, a critically acclaimed libertarian comedy about post-World War II eastern Turkey. Çetin both directed and produced this film, as he did for many other films. His 1993 film Berlin in Berlin was entered into the 18th Moscow International Film Festival.[4]
Çetin is a fan of Ayn Rand, and has published Rand's books and other libertarian books in Turkey.
Çetin manages and owns the film production company Plato Film Productions. He opened the company in 1986 and it has been expanding ever since. It is one of the most commercially successful Production Companies in Turkey. He is currently working on his 13th feature film named Çanakkale Çocukları. The film will star actors such as Haluk Bilginer, Oktay Kaynarca, Yavuz Bingöl, and Sinan Çetin's two sons Rafael Cemo Çetin and Orfeo Çetin.
Filmography
Films
- 1982 - Çiçek Abbas (director)
- 1982 - Çirkinler de Sever (director)
- 1985 - 14 Numara (director)
- 1986 - Prenses Gökyüzü (director)
- 1993 - Berlin in Berlin (director)
- 1995 - Bay E (director)
- 1999 - Propaganda (director)
- 2001 - Komser Şekspir (director)
- 2002 - Banka (director)
- 2004 - Okul (producer)
- 2004 - Romantik (director)
- 2005 - Pardon (producer)
- 2005 - Şans Kapıyı Kırınca (actor)
- 2008 - Mutlu Ol! Bu bir emirdir (writer & director)
- 2010 - Kağıt (director)
Television
- 2004 - Avrupa Yakası
- 2006 - Sahte Prenses
Documentary
- 1977 - Baskın
- 1977 - Halı Türküsü
References
- ^ "Sinan Çetin'in oğulları birbirine düşman!". 3 September 2012. Archived from the original on 6 February 2016.
- ^ Asu Maro (23 January 2008). "Her 10 yılda bir başka Sinan Çetin". Milliyet. Archived from the original on 10 February 2012.
- ^ Yükselir, Sevilay (10 January 2010). "Baykal'a çok şaşırıyorum". Yönetmen Çetin, Meclis'teki konuşmasını SABAH'a yorumladı. sabah.com.tr. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
Azeri bir annenin, Gürcü bir babanın evladıyım.
[I am the son of an Azerbaijani mother and a Georgian father.] - ^ "18th Moscow International Film Festival (1993)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 3 April 2014. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
External links
- Sinan Çetin at IMDb
- Her 10 yılda bir başka Sinan Çetin, Asu Maro, 23 January 2008, Milliyet (in Turkish)
- Biyografi.info - Biography of Sinan Çetin (in Turkish)
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Preceded by | Golden Orange Award for Best Director 1985 for 14 Numara | Succeeded by |
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- Atıf Yılmaz (1965)
- Memduh Ün (1966)
- Yılmaz Duru (1967
- Yılmaz Duru (1968)
- Ertem Eğilmez (1970)
- Muzaffer Aslan (1971)
- Atıf Yılmaz (1972)
- Nejat Saydam (1973)
- Ömer Lütfi Akad (1974)
- Şerif Gören (1975)
- Atıf Yılmaz (1976)
- Zeki Ökten (1977)
- Atıf Yılmaz (1978)
- Yavuz Özkan (1979)
- Zeki Ökten (1980)
- Erden Kıral (1981)
- Ömer Kavur (1982)
- Zeki Ökten (1983)
- Atıf Yılmaz (1984)
- Sinan Çetin (1985)
- Atıf Yılmaz (1986)
- Ömer Kavur (1987)
- Ömer Kavur (1988)
- Halit Refiğ (1989)
- Halit Refiğ (1990)
- Yavuz Özkan (1991)
- Tunç Okan (1992)
- Erden Kıral (1993)
- Yavuz Özkan (1994)
- Canan Gerede (1995)
- Tunç Başaran (1996)
- Ferzan Özpetek (1997)
- Ömer Kavur (1998)
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan (1999)
- Derviş Zaim (2000)
- Zeki Demirkubuz (2001)
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2002)
- Ömer Kavur (2003)
- Uğur Yücel (2004)
- Kutluğ Ataman (2005)
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2006)
- Fatih Akin (2007)
- Derviş Zaim (2008)
- Reha Erdem (2009)
- Seren Yüce (2010)
- Çiğdem Vitrinel (2011)
- Erdem Tepegöz (2012)
- Ramin Matin (2013)
- Onur Ünlü (2014)
- Tolga Karaçelik (2015)
- Ümit Köreken (2016)
- Mohammad Rasoulof (2017)
- Hirokazu Kore-eda (2018)
- Ali Özel (2019)
- Azra Deniz Okyay (2020)
- Tayfun Pirselimoğlu (2021)
- Emin Alper (2022)