Bessy Adut
Actor, Cinematographer, Writer, Director, Producer
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About Me
Turkish-born Bessy Adut is an award winning film director/writer/producer who lives in Los Angeles. She holds an MFA in Film Directing from CalArts as a Fulbright Grantee and a BA in Film and Television from Istanbul Bilgi University.
She is also a UCLA Professional Screenwriting Program alumna. Bessy’s latest short film Escape Room has won 11 awards and has been featured in several Oscar qualifying international film festivals. Bessy is also the founder of Queen B. Film Hive, LLC in 2015.
Bessy has worked as a Director/Host in TRT World documentaries such as Inside the Lens and Mysteries of Cinema and has worked as a Production Coordinator and Director’s Assistant for Academy Award winner Bryan Fogel’s Icarus II and The Dissident.
Currently she works on a documentary about hip hop artist Post Malone. For the past two years Bessy has been developing her feature documentary Searching For God In Antarctica with a docu-series to follow.
InterestsAntarctica, Global Warming, Human Interest Documentaries, Historical Documentary, Spirituality, Documentaries And Human Rights Journalism, Women Issues, Africa, Female Director, Science, Religion, Nature, Female Empowerment, Female Film / Short Films / Genre Films / Experimental Films, Middle East
SkillsSpeaking Turkish, Film Direction, Film Directing, Creative Direction, Line Producing, Screenwriting