Pre-Selection Jury Members

PRE-SELECTION JURY

Marco Rimondi, Italy

He started working as film maker since 2007 and he has always dreamed of being a documentarist. In the first years of his career he worked especially in commercial, tourism and events movie for brands as Dolce& Gabbana, Ducati, Massei Ferguson,Trelleborg, Yamaha,Wolkswagen and Giant. He did video editor and camera man and it was helpful to gain experiences. In 2015 He met Luciano Berruti, he gave his the inspiration to make his first documentary-film, L’Eroico. L’Eroico took parts at some film festival around the world winning some awards as "Best Documentary” at Izmit Film Festival in the 2019.

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Hüseyin Urçuk, Turkey

Huseyin Urcuk, was born in Akhisar, district of Manisa, in 1983. He started to deal with theater art actively since 1998. After graduating from the departmant of “Photography and Videography” at Anadolu University between 2012-2014, he started to work on “Photography and Cinema” in Kybele Art House. In 2016, he was deemed worthy of the award by taking part in many festivals at home and abroad with his experimental short film project named “ENTROPY". In 2018,He won the awards in many festivals with his short film screenplay named “BARCODE". In 2019, he took part as an actor in the fictional short film named "DRAGON" in which he wrote his script. Huseyin Urcuk still continues his undergraduate education at Istanbul University, “Faculty of Communication”, Department of “Radio, Television and Cinema”.

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Çağatay Çelikbaş, Turkey

Çağatay Çelikbaş, born at 23 February 1995 in Edremit, Balıkesir. He has attended Ege University at 2013 and 2017 he got his bachelors degree in Radio Television and Cinema; Communication Faculty of Ege University. He has begun second education on Advertising at 2015. He does master's degree on documentaries at the same University. Undersigned many projects of fictions, documentaries, trailers and photography. “Actor” and “Hidden Heaven” documentaries directed by him were finalists at many national and international festivals and had prizes. He has been nominated as jury member at national and international festivals and contests. At present he has ongoing film and trailer projects.

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Gazanfer Biricik, France

He was born in Saint-Dié-Des-Vosges in France on April 15th, 1977. He writes stories, scenarios & poems since 1990. It is however with the short film "GAB" produced in 2018 that Gazanfer manages to seduce the international festivals, and wins 59 awards in total for 138 selections till end of 2019. On the strength of this success the festivals ask him also the short "The Tombeur / The Heartthrob" he directed in 2015 & that even never pay their attention. The latter won 23 awards for 43 selections from July to the end of 2019. Currently he is working on several projects of feature film and TV series (show), drama and science fiction in collaboration with La Vie Parigo.

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Meral Özdemir, Turkey

She was born in Gaziantep. She graduated from The University of Harran, the academy of Radio and Broadcast in 2006. She won the university of Istanbul Kültür, Art and Design Faculty, the design of Communication and cinema Department with a full scholarship in 2009. She is currently a master's degree student at University of Akdeniz, Fine Arts Institute, Academy of Art and design.

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Ayça Seymenoğlu, Turkey

She graduated from Sabiha Gökçen Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School Radio-Television / Graphic-Animation department in 2014. In the same year, he had 1-year internship at M.A.R.K.A Advertising Agency. In 2018, she graduated from Yalova University, Faculty of Art and Design / Communication Arts department with first degree. Ayça Seymenoğlu, who has worked at Maltepe University, has directed several short films and has won many national and international awards.

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Onur Doğan, Turkey

He graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Radio, TV and Cinema. He has worked as director and director in many productions until today. He wrote and directed C.O.D. (2017) and The Rejected (2019). His work continues by shooting short films and music videos.

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Anthony Merchak, Lebanon

Born In Beirut , Experienced as Segment Director & Sound Operator @ MTV Lebanon For more than 10 years, with a demonstrated history of working in the motion pictures and film industry. Skilled in Photography, Music Videos, Camera, Sound, editing and Film. Strong product management professional with a Master's degree focused in Cinematography and Film/Video Production from the Lebanese University of fine arts. Awarded over than 14 international prizes For My Senior Short Film. Gained remarkable experience and results in the field of audio-video productions.

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Turan Kubulay, Turkey

He was born in İzmir, Esrefpasa Neighborhood, in 1997. He get into the Elazig Firat University, Radio,Cinema and Television undergraduate programme in 2015. He completed the first year of the university in there. In 2016, he transfered to Antalya Akdeniz University, Radio,Cinema and Television undergraduate programme and graduated in 2019 . He joined the Antalya Film Team in 2016, where she worked as a director and producer.In 2018, he was the Technical Director of Béla Tarr Film Production Workshop organized under Antalya Film Forum. In 2019, he joined the YGA Leadership Program. In early 2019, he became a co-founder of a new film collective called Güney Yeni Dalga (Wave of the South), where he continues his film activities. He is also the short film coordinator of Çalı Village Film Festival.

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Erfan Parsapour, Iran

Erfan is a film, animation, and theater writer and director. His paintings and caricatures were his first encounters with the art world which won him great attention as a child. His career as a director has been fruitful, especially in THE INCOMPLETE which brought him several international awards. He is the founder of CUBECAT animation studio.

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Alp Özkardeş, Turkey

Alp Özkardeş; is a visual communication designer and independent short film director. He is a graduate of Doğuş University, Visual Communication Design department. He is currently continuing his graduate education and academic studies at Istanbul University, Department of Radio Television Cinema. Some of the short films he directed were shown at national and international festivals and received awards. Detailed version of the resume, achievements, studies and references of his CV can be viewed on his personal web page http://alpozkardes.com.