Deniz Akçay was born in Izmir in 1978. While she was still a history major at Ege University, she joined the writers´ team for the TV series Ayrılsak da Beraberiz. Then she changed her major to communications, at the same university, and studied radio, television and film. She took filmmaking and editing courses at New York Film Academy in 2006. She´s been working as a screenwriter for TV series since 2006. In 2013, she wrote and directed her first feature film Nobody's Home (2013).
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With the support of the Eurimages Fund of the Council of Europe
