Ayşe Şasa

Cinema critic (b. 1941, İstanbul). She graduated from Arnavutköy American College for Girls (1960). She studied at Robert College, Department of Administrative Sciences between 1963 and 1965. Ayşe Şasa, who has worked as a scenarist in Turkish cinema since 1960, has written almost 15 screenplays including Son Kuşlar (The Last Birds), Ah Güzel İstanbul (Ah, Beautiful İstanbul), Cemo (Cemo), Gramafon Avrat (Gramophone Woman). She has written cinema critiques and reviews under the title Yeşilçam Günlüğü (Journal of Yeşilçam) in the review Dergâh since 1990. She received the Writers Union of Turkey Critic Award in 1994.

WORKS:

Yeşilçam Günlüğü (Journal of Yeşilçam, 1996), Düş ve Gerçeklik ve Sinema (Dream and Reality and Cinema, with S. Yalsızuçanlar and İ. Kabil, 1997), Delilik Ülkesinden Notlar (Notes from the Country of Madness, 2003).