Erin Semine Kökdil is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and educator interested in building solidarity and inciting social change through film. Her work is an exploration of love and resistance, touching upon themes of migration, identity, and motherhood, and has screened at IDFA, Hot Docs, Camden International Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, AFI Docs, Palm Springs International ShortFest, among others. Her work has been supported by SFFILM, Mountainfilm, Marble House Project Residency, Independence Public Media Foundation, Points North Institute, National Geographic, Fulbright, and featured on The New Yorker, KQED, and Means TV.
Prior to becoming a filmmaker, she worked extensively with non-profits and community-led initiatives in the U.S. and Guatemala. Her short documentary, “Since you arrived, my heart stopped belonging to me,” was nominated for Best Short Documentary at the IDA Awards in 2021. She holds a BA in Latin American Studies and Spanish from Smith College and an MFA in Documentary Film and Video from Stanford University. She is the recipient of a 2019 SFFilm Film House Residency, a 2020 Fulbright-National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship, and a 2022 Confluence Fellowship from True False Film Festival. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Media Production at the University of Oklahoma.
erinkokdil@gmail.com