Okan Avcı

Okan Avcı (born 29 November 1984 in Muğla, Turkey) is a Turkish film director and actor.

Okan Avcı studied motion pictures and acting in Pera Fine Arts and in the meantime sub-aqua technology in Istanbul University. He worked for a short period of time as industrial diver and snail hunter. Afterwards, he started working both behind and the front scenes. He had roles in Annem, Nefes and Çoğunluk, television series broadcast in Turkey. The first of which he shot was his grandmother's life, Kadim and he won the Golden Orange Award. Later on, he made his second documentary Telvin with Erkan Oğur, the Turkish musician made the soundtracts of Kadim. Telvin Tour Documentary has been sold out in DVD format with Kalan Müzik brand. In 2011 summer, he shot another documentary Kaş-Kekova The Protected Areas Project for WWF Turkey. In October, 2012 he had a role in movie The Two Faces of January with Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Oscar İsaac which was directed in Turkey. Now he is progressing in his career in movie making and actor with the movies Akabende Sivas and İçimdeki Balık.