Ada Güvenir is an animation filmmaker and visual artist born and raised in Izmir, Turkey. She studied Audiovisual Arts in KASK School of Arts in Gent. After completing her masters degree, her graduation film received the VAF Wildcard prize with which she created her next film ‘As If It Could’. She is currently doing a PhD in Luca School of Arts C-mine and working as a lecturer in the Audiovisual Arts department and Re-Anima. Her doctoral research is around the themes of humour, immigration, psychoanalysis and animation. She remains active in the film and art industry in and outside of Belgium as well as pursing an academic career.
