Who is Mihri

Berna Gençalp holds a BA in Film and Television from Anadolu University and an MA in Film and Television from Istanbul Bilgi University. She has attended international workshops on scriptwriting at the Mediterranean Film Institute in Greece and Katapult in Hungary. With her script The Wig Story, she was invited to the Berlin Film Festival Talent Campus and the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival. Gençalp coined the name Canlandıranlar for the independent animation film festival that aims to promote animation art in Turkey. She has held various positions within Canlandıranlar since its inception in 2008. Born in Izmir, Turkey, Gençalp now lives and works in Istanbul. She is the project designer, scriptwriter, and director of Who is Mihri.

Özlem Gülin Dağoğlu is Curator of Modern Art at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. She holds a PhD in History of Art from the Université de Montréal, and a BA from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her work focuses on global modern art histories with an emphasis on issues of migration, gender, and nationalism. Her research interests also include the migrant-woman and portrait-painter Mihri Rasim. In 2019, she cocurated the first exhibition on Mihri Rasim, Mihri: A Migrant Painter of Modern Times, for SALT Galata Istanbul, based on her PhD research. Recently, she has completed her monograph entitled Connecting the Dots: The Migrations of an Ottoman-Turkish Woman Painter, Mihri Rasim (1885–1954).