Kaan Şensoy

1962’de İstanbul’da doğdu. 1987’de liseden mezun olduktan sonra, İstanbul Üniversitesi’nde Edebiyat ve Sosyal Antropoloji eğitimi aldı. 1991 yılında, Marmara Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi, Sinema Televizyon bölümüne girdi. 1993 yılında reklam endüstrisinde profesyonel olarak çalışmaya başladı. Birçok yüksek bütçeli reklam projesinde yardımcı yönetmen, asistan ve kurgucu olarak çalıştı. 1996’dan sonra birçok televizyon ve video müzik projesinde yönetmenlik yaptı. 2000 yılında Amsterdam’a yerleşti.

Yönetmenliğini Yaptığı Belgesel Filmler

Taksi Şöforü XL (Taxi Driver XL) - 2005
2. Akbank Kısa Film Festivali, Belgesel Kategorisi, Mansiyon Ödülü. 2005
27. İFSAK Ulusal Kısa Film ve Belgesel Yarışması. 2005
2. Hisar Kısa Film Festivali. 2006

Yönetmenliğini Yaptığı Kısa Filmler

April Fool - 2006
3. Akbank Kısa Film Festivali. 2006
43. Antalya Altın Portakal Film Festivali, Kısa Film Dalı, Yarışma Filmi. 2006

Denizatı (Seahorse) - 1995
2. Antalya Uluslararası Kısa Film Yarışması Sunexpress Özel Ödülü. 1996
17. İFSAK Ulusal Kısa Film ve Belgesel Yarışması. 1995
M.Ü.G.S.F. Sinema TV Bölümü "50. Yıl Film Haftası, 50 Yılda 50 Film” Gösterim. 2008

Tatlı Sular Vadisi (The Sweet Water Valley) - 1994
16. İFSAK Ulusal Kısa Film Yarışması Video Dalı Üçüncülük Ödülü. 1995
7. Uluslararası İzmir Film Festivali, Kısa Film Yarışması, İkincilik Ödülü. 1995
7. Ankara Film Festivali, Ulusal Kısa Film Yarışması, Dramatik Video Dalı, Gösterim. 1995

Illusion - 1993
7. Adana Altın Koza Kısa Film Yarışması Jüri Özel Ödülü. 1993
15. İFSAK Kısa Film Yarışması, Birincilik Ödülü. 1994
5. Orhan Murat Arıburnu Kısa Film Yarışması, Birincilik Ödülü. 1994
3. Nürnberg Türk Film Günleri, Kısa Film Yarışması Bölümü, Gösterim. 1994
6. Ankara Film Festivali, Ulusal Kısa Film Yarışması, Video Dalı, Gösterim. 1994
M.Ü.G.S.F. Sinema TV Bölümü "50. Yıl Film Haftası, 50 Yılda 50 Film” Gösterim. 2008

Aqua - 1992
7. Adana Uluslararası Altın Koza Kısa Film Yarışması, Jüri Özel Ödülü. 1993
1. Antalya Uluslararası Kısa Film Yarışması, Video Dalıİkincilik Ödülü. 1995
5. Ankara Film Festivali, Ulusal Kısa Film Yarışması, Video Dalı, Gösterim. 1993
2. Nürnberg Türk Film Günleri, Türkiye'den Kısa Filmler Bölümü, Gösterim. 1993

Kilit (The Lock) - 1992



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Who is Kaan Sensoy?

He was born in 1969 in Istanbul. After graduating from high school in 1987, he entered Istanbul University, literature as his major and social anthropology as his minor. During his four years of social science education, he worked on photography and scenario projects and managed the faculty’s cinema club as president. In 1991, he entered Marmara University, Fine Arts, Film-TV faculty and ranked second. Starting from his first year, he started developing his own scenarios and working on short film projects. “Kilit”, his first short film was an experimental work of the combination of the photography and video techniques. In 1992, he filmed “Aqua”, his second short film project which was accepted by twelve national, international film festivals. He received two awards and many compliments and was invited to many private shows. He received compliments and criticisms from the media and his film was shown on TRT (Turkish Radio Television) channel. In the same year, his other project, “Illusion”, was selected as one of the best three scenarios in Antalya Film Festival and was awarded with financial grant. The filming of the project was completed in 1993, supported by private sponsors, shown on television channels (TRT, Channel E) and accepted by many festivals from which he received three awards. “The Sweet Water Valley”, his fourth film project was selected to be one of the four film projects supported by the Turkish Ministry of Culture who also took responsibility to pay the expenses and to distribute the film. That same year (his third year in school), while working on his projects, he started working professionally in the advertising industry. He worked in many high-budget TV commercial projects as assistant director, sec-director, off-line editor (AVID) and post-production director with directors Ezal Akay, Ufuk Ahıska, Kagan Erturan in IFR, one of the four biggest companies in the sector. “The Sweet Water Valley” project of which the filming was completed in 1994, was accepted by many festivals, received two awards and shown three times on a private pay-TV channel (Cine 5). 1995 was his last year in school and he continued his professional career in the advertising industry. That same year he decided to make his last short film project scenario, “Sea Horse”, on which he had been working for the last two years as his graduation thesis. The film was completed with the support of a sponsor that year in August by a professional team and got 100 full points from the final jury. The film was accepted by many festivals, received one award and was shown on public and private television channels (TRT, Cine 5). In 1996 he graduated from the school of Cinema-TV with six excellence awards and started attending the Masters Program in the same school. Professor Dr. Alim Serif Onaran, one of the famous history professors of cinema in Turkey, talked about Kaan Sensoy and his projects, and mentioned Kaan’s ideas in his book “The Turkish Cinema” of two volumes.

In 1996, Kaan started working as free-lance director in the advertising industry and worked with many production companies in TV commertials, presentations and music videos projects. Meanwhile, he continued on working on his first feature film project’s (Under The Shooting Star) scenario. The synopsis was completed in January 1997. In February 1999, he started his own production house “Dream Affairs” together with producer Ozlem Uslu. The main goal in setting up this company was to make “Under The Shooting Star” an independent film project, to service other directors in their first filming projects and to support other short film projects. In accordance with this mission, international film production companies which had worked in projects with the “Euroimage Programme” were contacted. The project studies were paused after the Marmara earthquake that took place in August 1999. Kaan Sensoy is currently engaged in developing the scenarios and working on his film and photograhy projects in Amsterdam.




Filmography of Kaan Sensoy

2016

Solo Fine Art Photography Exhibition
At The Grand Amsterdam ''The Light Above Amsterdam''

2006

April Fool (Short Film)
Screenwriter, Director


2005

Taxi Driver XL (Experimental Documentary)
Screenwriter, Director

Grand Jury member
Antalya Golden Orange Int. Short Film Fest.

2001 - 2014

Be At The Media SJA/ SALTO (TV programs in Amsterdam)
Co-Director, Editor

2000

Neva Cosmetics (TV commercials) 3films
Director

Knidos Lion (Documentary)
Co-Director, Editor

1999

Turan Deniz (Music Video)
Screenwriter, Director

Gazi Dairy products (TV Comercial) 14 films
Screenwriter, Director

Kybele (Documatery)
Co-Director, Editor


1998

TC. Ministery of Foreign Affairs " Turkey" (Adv. film)
Director

Borusan Holl.Co. Power systems "Caterpiler" (Adv. film)
Director

Demirbank (Documentary)
Co-Director & Art Director

Borusan Holl.Co. Machine "Caterpiler" (Adv. film)
Director

Kalder "Quality Control Systems" (Adv. film)
Screenwriter, Director

Dogus Holl. Co. Dogus Otomotiv Group " Audi,VW, Porshe, Saab, Seat, Scania" (Adv. films)
Director


1997

Spor Newspaper (Tv Comercial) 2 films
Director & Art Director

Popsi Magazine (TV Comercial)
Director & Art Director

Ceylankent (TV Commercial)
Director & Art Director

Simena (TV Commercial)
Director

Ekinciler Holl.Co."Ekdis" (Adv. film)
Director

Giykop (Adv. film)
Director

Simena House (TV Commertial)
Director

Ctv (TV intro. films)
Co-Director & Art Director

Ctv (TV Comercial)
Co-Director & Art Director

Süleyman Demirel "President of Turkish Republic"(Documentary)
Co-Director & Art Director

1995

Sea Horse (shot film)
Screenwriter, Director

Mis Süt (TV Commercial) 5 films
Assistant of Director

Carmina (TV Commercial)
Assistant of Director

Is Bank (TV Commercial)
Assistant of Director

Pizza Hut (TV Commercial, prom.) 2 films
Post Prod. Director

Bosch (TV Commercial)
Assistant of Director

Pizza Hut (TV Commercial, prom.)
Post Prod. Director

Fikret Kizilok "Kalbim" (Music video)
Director

1994

The Sweet Water Valley (Short Film)
Screenwriter, Director

Mercedes (TV Commercial)
Assistant of Director

Cappy " Coca Cola co." (TV Commercial) 4 films
Assistant of Director

A La Luna (TV serial ) 8 part
Assistant of Director

Persil (TV Commercial) 2 films
Assistant of Director

Is Bank (TV Commercial) 4 films
Assistant of Director

Altin Baţak (TV Commercial)
Assistant of Director & off-line director

1993

Illusion (Short Film)
Screenwriter, Director

1992

Aqua (Short Film)
Screenwriter, Director

1991

The Lock (Short Film)
Screenwriter, Director


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