Pakize Emel Celebi

director, Turkey

was born and raised in Istanbul. She has studied English literature and worked in various magazines as editor, interpreter and writer. Her first film “Housekeeper” has won the Best Documentary Award in 43rd Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival and the First Prize in 9th Women’s Film Festival in Seoul. Her second documentary “Sisters of Lilith” has won the “Best Balkan Documentary” award in 8st Dokufest Documentary and Short Film Festival in Prizren, Kosovo. She is also among the organizers of Documentarist-Istanbul Documentary Days and Human Rights Watch Film Festival in İstanbul.

Filmography: Housekeeper, 2006; Sisters of Lilith, 2008; Ain’t No Cinderellas!, 2014.