Sinan Çetin

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{{Short description|Kurdish film director, producer, and actor (born 1953)}}

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| birth_place = Bahçesaray, Van Province, Turkey

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| education = Art history

| alma_mater = Hacettepe University

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Sinan Çetin (born 1 March 1953) is a Turkish film director, actor, and producer. He won the best director award at the 12th Dhaka International Film Festival.

Çetin was born as one of the eight children of a customs officer.{{cite web | url = http://www.milliyet.com.tr/2008/01/23/magazin/amag.html | title = Her 10 yılda bir başka Sinan Çetin | author = Asu Maro | date = 23 January 2008 | publisher = Milliyet | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20120210033111/http://www.milliyet.com.tr/2008/01/23/magazin/amag.html | archivedate = 10 February 2012}} He is of maternal Azeri and paternal Georgian descent.{{cite news|url=https://www.sabah.com.tr/gundem/2010/01/10/baykala_cok_sasiriyorum|title=Baykal'a çok şaşırıyorum|access-date=22 May 2022|date=10 January 2010|work=Yönetmen Çetin, Meclis'teki konuşmasını SABAH'a yorumladı|publisher=sabah.com.tr|quote=Azeri bir annenin, Gürcü bir babanın evladıyım.|trans-quote=I am the son of an Azerbaijani mother and a Georgian father.|first=Sevilay|last=Yükselir}} He studied art history at Hacettepe University. Çetin has produced full-length films and television series, and foremost, commercials. He is best known in the English-speaking world for his 1999 film Propaganda, a critically acclaimed libertarian comedy about post-World War II eastern Turkey. Çetin both directed and produced this film, as he did for many other films. His 1993 film Berlin in Berlin was entered into the 18th Moscow International Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1993 |title=18th Moscow International Film Festival (1993) |access-date=9 March 2013 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140403093721/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1993 |archive-date=3 April 2014 }}

Çetin is a fan of Ayn Rand, and has published Rand's books and other libertarian books in Turkey.

Çetin manages and owns the film production company Plato Film Productions. He opened the company in 1986 and it has been expanding ever since. It is one of the most commercially successful Production Companies in Turkey. He is currently working on his 13th feature film named Çanakkale Çocukları. The film will star actors such as Haluk Bilginer, Oktay Kaynarca, Yavuz Bingöl, and Sinan Çetin's two sons Rafael Cemo Çetin and Orfeo Çetin.