Fırat Sezgin

Fırat Sezgin is a producer working in Film and in New Media with a background in producing feature  length films as well as documentaries.

 

After graduating from Emerson College (2011) with a BA in Producing for Film, he returned to Istanbul where he worked in different positions in various productions. In his last five years in Istanbul he joined the largest Turkish studio BKM, where he worked in national and international licensing & distribution as well as more than 20 co-productions. He co-founded Institute of Time to work on independent projects including 3 feature creative documentaries. His VR work Floodplain premiered in Venice Film Festival. His latest documentary co-production world premiered at the IFFR 2020. He now resides in the Netherlands. He was one of the Emerging Producers selected by Jihlava International Documentary FF 2020 as well as IFFR Producers Lab in 2021. He was also selected to participate at the Immersive Storytelling Workshop organized by Netherlands Film Fonds & Torino Film Lab in 2020.