Aylin Tinel
Biography
After abandoning a budding career as a musician, Aylin entered the film industry as a director's assistant. By the age of 19, she had gone on to run one of Turkey's most commercially successful post-production studios, Autopsy.
Following this, she edited and supervised post-production on the American Independent Film "Crude", which went on to win the Los Angeles Film Festival and a Special Jury prize at the Seattle International Film Festival. Next Aylin found herself beckoned by the academic world and was invited to teach and lecture at Bahcesehir University, Kadir Has University, and Bilgi University.
In 2005 she left teaching to co-found the Film Collective, Vav Film Group to develop, nurture, and support film and documentary projects. In addition to countless commercials, Aylin edited a variety of notable feature films, streaming series, documentaries, and art installations working with some of the most legendary directors of Turkish Cinema.
Her latest work includes the feature Pacified, a film produced by Reagent Media and Darren Aronofsky that has won fifteen international prizes including the Golden Shell at San Sebastian International Film Festival. She continues her work at 'Civil Editors', an editor collective that she and her editor friends founded in 2012.