ABOUT
Asligül Armağan is a writer-producer currently based in New York.
Since 2019, she has worked as an Associate Producer on Academy Award-winning director Bryan Fogel's documentary films, the most notable of which are Icarus: The Aftermath, which premiered at the 2022 Telluride Film Festival, and The Dissident, which tells the story of the cover-up that followed the assassination of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. The Dissident premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, was nominated for Best Documentary at the 2021 BAFTA Awards and the 2021 ACE Eddie Awards, and won Best Documentary at the 2021 Writers Guild Awards.
Armagan has previously worked in film and television development at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Working Title Films, George Clooney and Grant Heslov's Smokehouse Pictures, Academy Award-winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman's Weed Road Pictures, and Gunpowder & Sky. In 2018, she was selected by BAFTA Los Angeles as the first and only Turkish honoree of their Newcomers Program, a four-year talent initiative.
Her short film Lyssa explores schizophrenia through the social thriller genre as part of a wider mission to use films to destigmatize mental health taboos. The film was an official selection at the 25th Annual Dances With Films Festival, the Imagine This Women's Film Festival, the California Women's Film Festival, the Awareness Festival, and the REEL Recovery Film Festival & Symposium, and went on to win Best Cinematography at the Toronto Feedback Female Film Festival and the Award of Excellence at the IndieFEST Film Awards.
Her short film Spiral, an intimate portrayal of depression in a post-pandemic world, was a finalist in the Women in Film and IMDbPro Curbside Shorts film challenge and premiered on the IMDb homepage. The film was also an official selection at Indie Short Fest, a quarter-finalist at the Sunday Shorts Film Festival, a finalist at the Vancouver Independent Film Festival, and went on to win the Silver Award for Best Director for a Super Short Film at the Hollywood Gold Awards.
Her short film script The Pickup was a Quarterfinalist in the 2020 ScreenCraft Horror Competition.
Born and raised in Ankara, Turkey, Armagan holds a dual master's degree in Global Media and Communications from the London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, and a bachelor's degree in History from Durham University in the United Kingdom.