Sertaç Koyuncu was born in 1991 in Ankara. He graduated from the Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory Department of Clarinet in 2011 and the Dokuz Eylül University Film Design and Directing Department in 2016. In 2019, he graduated from the master's programme of the same department. He is currently pursuing his PhD in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at Bahçeşehir University and working as a research assistant in the Department of Film Design at Yaşar University. His articles, reviews, and essays on horror cinema have been published in cinema journals such as Sekans, Psikesinema, Sinemasal, and Alacakaranlık. His personal and academic research on genre films, film aesthetics, gender, and horror cinema continues. He has worked as an assistant director on feature films and organized film analysis, short film production, and screenwriting workshops in various institutions. His goal is to produce films of international standard in Turkey in the genre Elevated Horror.