After completing her undergraduate degree in Business Administration at METU, Emine Yıldırım obtained her MA in Film Studies at the Istanbul Bilgi University. In 2005, she co- founded Giyotin Film and started producing short films and internationally co-produced documentaries. Among her earlier productions are six short documentaries for Discovery Channel Europe, a feature- length documentary funded by the EU Commission to Turkey and Can Candan’s nationally award-winning docu 3 HOURS (2008). Her first feature- length fiction film THE MONSTERS’ DINNER (2011), directed by Ramin Matin won multiple awards nationally and internationally. She is also the writer/producer of Matin's second feature THE IMPECCABLES (2013) which premiered at the Busan FF and received the Best Film and Director Awards at Antalya Golden Orange FF. She also received the Best Screenplay Awards for this film at the Ankara Film Festival and Flying Broom International Women’s Festival. She also produced Derya Durmaz’s short films ZIAZAN (2014), which won the audience award Diversity In Cannes Short Showcase, and GRI BÖLGE (2015) which competed in the Berlinale Generation 14plus. She is currently in pre-production of her EAVE project SIREN’S CALL.
Emine also works as a cinema journalist; she first began writing in 2005 for Time Out Istanbul English, and currently writes for the English Daily Today’s Zaman. She has participated in Training Programs such as 2006 Euromed Audiovisual II Mediterranean Films Crossing Borders, 2007 IDFA Academy, 2008 IFFR FIPRESCI Young Critics Trainee Program and 2013 Cannes Producers Network. She is a 2014 EAVE graduate.