He holds an MFA from Emerson College and is currently an assistant professor at Emory University, where he mentors emerging filmmakers while continuing to develop his own transnational body of work.

His recent shorts include "The Burden of Shadows", a tense borderland drama about Turkish and Kurdish refugees at the US-Mexico border, and "Woodpecker", a lyrical portrait of a Kurdish gay asylum seeker’s search for belonging in the U.S.

He is currently developing his debut feature, "The Rings of Saturn" (a Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Sloan Pitch selection) which interlaces the Greek-Turkish population exchange with contemporary astrophysics. Following a pregnant Greek-American astrophysicist in northern Turkey, the film bridges black-hole imaging with buried ancestral memory.