BESSY ADUT
Bessy Adut is an award winning film director/writer/producer who lives in Los Angeles. She holds an MFA in Film Directing from CalArts as a Fulbright Grantee and a BA in Film and Television from Istanbul Bilgi University. She is also a UCLA Professional Screenwriting Program alumna. Bessy’s latest short film “Escape Room” has won 11 awards and has been featured in several Oscar qualifying international film festivals. Bessy Adut is also the founder of Queen B. Film Hive, LLC in 2015.
Bessy has worked as a Director/Host in TRT World documentaries such as “Inside the Lens” and “Mysteries of Cinema” and has worked as a Production Coordinator and Director’s Assistant for Academy Award winner Bryan Fogel’s “Icarus II” and “The Dissident”. Currently she works on establishing her talent management agency/production company Queen Bee’s Agents as well as fundraising and developing her first feature film “Searching for Goodness” and writing her first books for publishing.
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Bessy is an award-winning filmmaker resides in Los Angeles, California. Her films have screened internationally at festivals and venues including Pasadena Art Center Film Festival, Brooklyn Art Film Festival, International Children Film Festival, Lone Star Film Festival, Ifsak and Tursak short film festivals. More info: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3501533/
last project
"ESCAPE ROOM" (2019)
"Escape Room" is an award winning film (best screenplay, best editing, nominated for best film, best music score and best acting) about a brilliant student who is bullied in high school and suffers from OCD reluctantly joins her popular friends at a horror-themed Escape Room game. When the group realizes that a revenge-seeking Game Master has set them up in a custom-made deadly trap, the five teenagers start turning on each other. They have to join forces in order to get out of the room alive.
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BIO/CV
Bessy Adut is a Turkish-American filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She’s the project manager of Vyre Network as well as an independent, freelance writer/director/producer and a social media influencer/talent. She is the head of screenplay and jury of the restarting LA Bizarre Film Festival. Bessy is a after film school survivor in LA as an international filmmaker, underrepresented not belonging to a certain popular diverse group. She continues to make her projects & hustle.
WRITER/PRODUCER/DIRECTOR FOR FILM & TV
FICTION:
Escape Room - horror short film
Tolerance - dramedy short film
Mutlucu - drama
Strange Little Girl - drama short
Father Chaos - fantasy
Forbidden Door - horror/thriller shortNON-FICTION:
Searching for Goodness - documentary series to be made into a feature film
YouToo - social movement episodic series
Inside the Lens - TV documentary series about photojournalists
Mysteries of Cinema - TV documentary about VFX and SFX in Hollywood movies
Other Stories - International documentary Series
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR and/or 1ST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR:
Storage - Short Film premier at LA SHORTS Oscar Qualifying festival
The Dissident - Feature Documentary Film BAFTA winner, premiered at Sundance
Icarus II - Feature Documentary Film’s Sequel of Academy Award Winning film
Tinker - Feature Film
Voyager - Short Film
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR and/or 1ST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR:
Bakkal app
Turkish Airlines
Total Gas
BMW
Adidas
AFFILIATIONS:
Queen Bee’s Agents - Founder/Director (work in progress 2022-Present)
Queen B. Film Hive, LLC - Owner/Founder (previously 2015-2020)
International Documentary Association - Professional Filmmaker Member
Women in Media - Member
Alliance of Women Directors - Member
PAST OTHER:
Executive Assistant at DreamWorks Animation
Production Assistant at Amazon series
Production Assistant at New Films International
Production Assistant at Waterproof Films
Production Assistant at McClure Films
EDUCATION:
CalArts - MFA - Film Directing, Film/Video (as a Fulbright Exchange Scholar)
Istanbul Bilgi University - Film & Television, Communications
Pera Fine Arts School - Painting and Drawing
WORKSHOPS:
UCLA Professional Screenwriting Program
WoMentoring Program Alumni at Jewish federation of Los Angeles
Contact
She's very busy because of her film projects. Please be patient with her responses. But don't hesitate to say hello. :)