Hi, I'm Dogu Ozorhan from Ankara Turkey

I was born and raised in Ankara, Turkey. My mom being a cellist and my dad being an opera singer caused me to be always surrounded with music when I was growing up. Most of my weekends as a child was spent at the opera; walking around singers and dancers in costumes.

During high school I started to realise I wanted to study art in college but there were not a lot of opportunities in Turkey regarding studying any of my passions academically. That is why I applied and got accepted to United World Colleges USA and left my life back home to study abroad at the age of 16, right when the Covid pandemic and all of the flight restrictions were happening.

My boarding school was a crucial turning point in my life where I got to spend two years with so many people from so many different countries. It was also when I realised I did not want to study fine arts or painting academically, and I slowly started inclining towards filmmaking.

After finishing my two year IB diploma program in New Mexico, Montezuma I finally decided that I wanted to study filmmaking and pursue it as a career.

In 2022, I moved to Sarasota, Florida and started studying in Ringling College of Art and Design as a film major. During my first year I discovered my interest in photography and also business, so I started my photography and business minors.

Over the past two years, I worked on several photoshoots and a variety of them got published in editorial magazines which made me realise that I should continue to publish my work as much as I can.

During my second year, I made my sophomore film Goodbye Blue Sky (2024) where I tried to implement all my background in fine arts into filmmaking, and composed my first soundtrack.

After sending it to several festivals in both United States and around the world, my first festival short film got screened in 4 continents, in 17 international festivals and won 3 awards for Best Experimental Film, and 2 awards for Best Student Short film.

Currently I am 21 years old, working on my first feature film outside of film school and I am excited to see what else the future is going to bring through.