Born in Antalya in 1992, he completed his undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral studies at Marmara University. In 2018 he defended his master's thesis on the relationship between West African filmmakers and Western European funding institutions, with a special focus on the cinema of Abderrahmane Sissako. This study was published as "From Colonial to Global: Transnational African Cinema and Abderrahmane Sissako" in 2020. His doctoral thesis, defended in 2022, examined the formation of the field of Turkish film criticism through newspapers and magazines published between 1948 and 1960. This study was published as "The Intellectual Foundations of Turkish Cinema Criticism". He studied at the Université Catholique de Lille in 2015, and at the Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III in 2017 through the Erasmus+ student exchange program. Yılmaz speaks English and French and his research interests include African cinema, Middle Eastern cinema, Turkish cinema, film criticism, and press-cinema relations. He is a research assistant at Sakarya University.
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