Born in Istanbul on July 16, 1993, Gizem İbak graduated from Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Cinema – TV Department. Ibak, who wrote and directed three short films while at school, went to India upon invitation in his last year of school and took part in the set of a film. In the following years, she made two short documentary films in the same country. Producing his last short film in 2019 with the production support of the General Directorate of Cinema of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey, İbak directed digital commercials of more than twenty brands in 2018 – 2020.
Gizem İbak, who completed her internship at the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, attended the Film Industry Assistant Director’s Workshop, organized by the Mediterranean Film Institute Script-2 Workshop Programme, Mumbai Film Festival Young Critic Labs and Sinebir with the contributions of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey, and Creative Producers trainings organized by the British Council in 2018 – 2021.