Mustafa Büyükcoşkun

Mustafa Emin Büyükcoşkun was born in Istanbul in 1988, where he studied History and Sociology at Boğaziçi University. He worked with filmmakers such as Semih Kaplanoglu, Hany Abu Assad, Aida Begic, Mahmut Fazıl Coskun as assistant. He also traveled in Africa and Asia as voluntary videographer for a humanitarian aid campaign and worked as a peace activist in Kurdish question and union specialist in textile industry.

He Studied at Artuklu University in Mardin, conducted research on sound in Kurdish cinema, where he also worked as human rights reporter.

Since 2016 he lives and works in Karlsruhe, focusing more on media archeological aspects of moving images and various archival practices. He developed the project Images From Past Future with Rayna Teneva, revisiting film archive of former nuclear research center of Karlsruhe. His last project, which includes oral history, visual memory and documentary film To Go is about the journey of a group of youngster who travel from East to West Turkey, to help the reconstruction city of Kobane, where they lost their lives by an ISIS suicide attack. Mustafa is now developing his debut film with Semih Gülen, telling the story of a female athlete using an unorthodox doping method, at the crossroads of fiction and documentary.