Pınar YORGANCIOĞLU is a New York & Istanbul based Turkish filmmaker and an alumna of Columbia University MFA Film Program. She is a co-founder of the Istanbul based Makarna Film.The short films she directed travelled internationally at film festivals including the Warsaw Film Festival, Palm Springs International Shortest, Antalya Golden Orange, and Xining FIRST! Film Festival; and won awards and accolades at festivals such as the Istanbul Film Festival. Her last short film Mrs. Nebile's Wormhole was the recipient of the production grant from the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and was shot on location in Germany. Her work as a freelance director includes web-series, music videos, and commercials. As a freelance editor she works on both narrative and non-narrative material in short and long form media. She is currently working on the development her feature debut, which was selected to the Screenwriting Lab, organized by !F Istanbul and the world renowned Sundance Institute.