Gizem was born in Istanbul in 1991. She spent her youth playing volleyball professionally until 2009 when she was admitted to the Cinema and TV department at Marmara University Fine Arts Faculty. She officially began her career in the motion pictures and TV commercial industries as an assistant director in 2009 and has worked her way to become a prominent and respected professional in the industry. Over the course of her career, she has worked on more than one hundred TV commercials, music videos, short films, feature films, and documentaries. While professionally working on these productions, she also shot her own short films. She works as a 1st Assistant Director, Videographer, and Photographer and providing service for post-production editing, live stream monitoring, and quality check services to various clients as a freelancer through her own company in London.