Alin Tasciyan was born in 1969 in Istanbul. She graduated from the University of Istanbul with a BA in journalism and public relations in 1991. She began working for the Milliyet Art Review and Milliyet daily newspaper the same year. During the 16-year period in this media group she has been a correspondent, film critic and the editor of the Art Review. Meanwhile she made various cinema programs for the cultural channel of the Turkish Radio and Television TRT 2 including the Magic of Cinema which screened almost 500 classic films for 10 years. She programmed and presented the Thematic Films Ribbon for the news channel 24 between 2009 – 2012. She worked as a critic and a columnist for the Star daily newspaper 2008 – 2014. She is currently a film critic for the channel of culture & art TRT2 and writing for the culture & art website sanatatak.com.

Tasciyan has been an advisor and programmer for many film festivals including Istanbul IFF and Antlaya IFF in Turkey. She is currently an advisor for Adana International Film Festival, Flying Broom Women’s Film Festival in Ankara and she is the head programmer for International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival. She has served in many national and international film festival juries. She is a member of the European Film Academy.

She had been the vice president and president of FIPRESCI, International Federation of Film Critics between 2009-2017. She is currently the Deputy Secretary of FIPRESCI.