Özkan Arslan

Özkan Arslan was born in Hamburg (Germany) to a family of Turkish ancestry. He studied Media and Communication Sciences at the University of Trier and the Sorbonne University (Paris IV) and worked for production companies from producers like Francis Ford Coppola or Nicolas Cage. In 2001 he received the Körber Foundation's German Study Award for his thesis "What does the android do in film?" After moving to Berlin he graduated in scriptwriting and documentary filmmaking. Among his teachers were Rosa von Praunheim, Jens Becker, Oliver Schütte, Petra Lüschow, Andreas Dresen, Jean-Marc Lesguillons and Academy Award® winning director Pepe Danquart. Özkan Arslan is a member of the Screenwriters' Guild of Germany.