Biography
Worked as a journalist for the magazine Aktuel in 1992; editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, Turkey, 1992-1995; editor-in-chief of the Kelebek newspaper, the main supplement of Hurriyet newspaper 1996-1997. Columnist, interviewer (Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Marie Claire, Aktuel, Hurriyet, Sabah, Aksam). Created, produced and hosted some television shows on mainstream television channels such as ATV "This is The Show", Star "With Elif Dagdeviren", Cine 5 "Young Turks with Elif Dagdeviren", TRT "Build a Your Career", Skytürk "Butterfly Effect", Türkmax "Social Media Universe with Elif Dagdeviren", Turkmax "Heberler"... Founded and developed netbul.com, one of the first dot com companies of Turkey. Sold it in 2001. Co-founded her own company Hermes Film Productions. Produced blockbuster movies "Shattered Soul", "Living and Dying" (a co-produced Hollywood film), "Waiting For Heaven" (an award winner art-house film) and "IceCream I Scream" (2007 Academy Awards candidate for nomination on behalf of Turkey, an international award winner cult movie) and recently "Iftarlik Gazoz". Gave classes at Istanbul University, Marmara University, Akademi Hayat, MGSM on Journalism, Social Media, New Media, Communications and Film Production. Recently founded ED.GE All-In-One, to put all her experiences of filmmaking, journalism, media, internet, production, organizations and communications into one pool and produce films. Ex-board member of TURSAK (Turkish Foundation of Cinema and Audiovisual Culture). Members of: EFA, EWA, SEYAP Founder of the non-profit organization Cinema of Turkey. Festival Director of International Antalya Film Festival.
