Tolga Karaçelik

Tolga Kenan Karaçelik was born on April 22, 1981. Raised as the son of a painter mother and a shipowner father, Karaçelik started his education life at Koç Private High School and graduated from Marmara University Faculty of Law. In order to further deepen his interest in cinema, he gave his career a new direction with the cinema education he received in New York. He married Tuğçe Altuğ in 2018.

Karaçelik, who took his first step into the world of cinema as a director with the movie Kaşık Adam in 2004, then took on different roles such as both director and producer in projects such as Evoke and Rapunzel. In 2011, he also appeared as an actor in the movie Kurtuluş Son Durak and appeared before the audience with the character "Okan".

In the same year, he took on the duties of both director, screenwriter and editor in the movie Tollbooth Officer. Then Baby Job, Sarmaşık, Kelebekler, Yakamoz S-245 and finally 2024's Psychotherapy: A Serial Killer. He undertook important projects such as The Shallow Story of the Writer Who Decided to Write About Him.

Karaçelik's contributions to cinema were crowned with many prestigious awards. In 2014, with his film Sarmaşık, he won the Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay awards at the 52nd International Antalya Film Festival, as well as the Best Film award at the East End Film Festival. While he received the Best Director Award at the 22nd Adana Golden Boll Film Festival with the same film, his 2011 film Tollbooth Officer won important awards such as the Best First Film at the 47th International Golden Orange Film Festival and the Grand Prize at the 20th Mannheim Turkish Film Festival.

In 2018, he won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival with his movie Butterflies and was awarded the Director of the Year Award at the GQ Awards Ceremony. In the same year, he won the Best Director Award at the 25th International Adana Film Festival.

Productions in which he took part

• Butterflies (2018) — Emre
• Bartu Ben (2018)
• Kurtuluş Son Durak (2012) — Okan Poyrazlı

Production and imprint information was taken from TMDB.