Alice Street - Official Trailer (2020) Documentary
In a rapidly gentrifying city, the construction of a luxury condominium threatens a local mural forcing the artists and a neighborhood to rally to protect its history, voice, and land. www.alicestreetfilm.com

Contributing editor and cinematographer. 
​Mill Valley Film Festival Official Selection

COP 25 protest outside US embassy demands justice for missing and murdered indigenous women
While representatives from governments across the globe gathered in Madrid for the COP 25 climate summit, dozens of activists demonstrated outside the U.S. Embassy in the Spanish capital to demand justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirits, as they highlighted the fossil fuel industry’s connection to violence against them.

Editor, Videographers: Ayşe Gürsöz and Vane Ramos 
Cinematographer: Spencer Mann of Indigenous Climate Action.

ONE VOICE Official Trailer
One Voice delves into the lives of four Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir members and artistic director Terrance Kelly. This film illuminates a group of people from diverse faiths, races, genders, socioeconomic backgrounds, and lifestyles, all with a common goal: to bring joy and inspiration to the stage through black gospel music. By coming from a place of inclusion and acceptance, choir members are able to bridge their differences, embracing the celebrations and challenges that arise along the way.

Contributing Cinematographer

Standing Strong - Short Documentary
Since April 2016, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has been protecting their water from the Dakota Access Pipeline development. This short documentary funded by Indigenous Rising (Indigenous Environmental Network) looks at the ways people came together to fight back.

Producer: Ayşe Gürsöz
Cinematography: Ayşe Gürsöz
Cinematography: Josué Rivas
Audio: Ayşe Gürsöz

Meet Brenda White Bull: A Descendant of Sitting Bull
White Bull reflects on the movement at Standing Rock and imagines what her Great Great Grandfather, Sitting Bull, would have felt about the Water Protector movement.

Produced for Indigenous Rising Media

Director and Editor: Ayşe Gürsöz
Producer: Jade Begay 
Cinematography: Dylan McClaughlin 
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Indigenous Women For Climate Justice
A delegation of Indigenous women leaders from around the world, fighting extractive industries for climate justice, visit Kandi White (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikira) in her homeland of Fort Berthold, an epicenter of Fracking in the United States.

Produced for MADRE and Indigenous Environmental Network.

Videography and Editing: Ayşe Gürsöz
​Second Camera: Rudi Tcruz

'Divergent' Star, Shailene Woodley, Stands With Standing Rock

Cinematrography: Tomas Karmelo Amaya, Josué Rivas Fotographer, Jade Begay, Ayşe Gürsöz
Editor: Tomas Karmelo Amaya
Audio: Ayşe Gürsöz
Music: Kai Engel, "Crying Earth"

We Are Protectors. Not Protestors.
Meet Heather Milton Lightening of Indigenous Peoples Power Project (IP3).
She's one of the direct action trainers at Oceti Sakowin Camp.

Produced for Indigenous Rising Media
Director, Videographer, and Editor: Ayşe Gürsöz




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Vets Self-Deploy For #NoDAPL
This veteran is calling out the militarized police's response to #NoDAPL activists.

Produced for AJ+
Cinematography: Ayse Gursoz and Josue Rivas
Editor: Ayse Gursoz



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Why People Are Protesting DAPL

Produced for AJ+
Producer: Ayse Gursoz