Alin Tasciyan

Alin Tasciyan was born in 1969 in Istanbul. She was graduated from the University of Istanbul with a BA in journalism and public relations in 1991. She began working for the Milliyet Art Review and Milliyet daily newspaper the same year. During the 16 year period in this media group she has been a correspondent, film critic and the editor of the Art Review. Meanwhile she made various cinema programs on television, especially the cultural channel of the Turkish Radio and Television TRT 2 including the Magic of Cinema which screened  almost 500 classic films for 10 years (1996-2006). Between 2019-2023 she introduced and analyzed films twice a week for Film Onu / Film Arkasi . She programmed and presented the Thematic Films Ribbon for the news channel 24 between 2009 – 2012. She worked as a critic and a columnist for the Star daily newspaper 2008 – 2014. She is currently writing reviews for the culture&art website www.sanatatak.com. Tasciyan has been an advisor and programmer for many film festivals including Istanbul, Antalya, Adana, Malatya international film festivals, Filmmor and Flying Broom women’s film festivals in Turkey. She is currently the Program Director of the International Crime and Punishment Film Festival in Istanbul. She has served on many national and international film festival juries. She is a member of the European Film Academy. She had been the vice president and president of FIPRESCI, International Federation of Film Critics between 2009-2018. She is currently the Deputy Secretary of FIPRESCI.