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Nazlı Dinçel (Naz) has won awards and exhibited worldwide in institutions, festivals, and microcinemas including The Museum of Modern Art, International Film Festival Rotterdam, MUMOK, and the Hong Kong International Film Festival, among others. They are the recipient of a 2024 Creative Capital award and of a 2019 Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship at Harvard University. Dinçel holds an MFA from the UW-Milwaukee’s Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres. Born in Ankara, Turkey, Dinçel immigrated to the United States at age 17. Dinçel’s emphasis on hand-crafted works stems from experiences of diaspora, and laborious working conditions in their birth country. They are a trans non-binary filmmaker with a focus on breaking binary representations of the body acclimating to a western culture, anti-ethnography and object theory in analogy with the film object and the tactility of the 16mm analogue material.