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Iulia Puica, Moldova
In 2012 graduated from the Academy of Music Theater and Fine Arts, in Moldova. Specialty film director and editor and master degree as director of animation. She has been working as a director and 1st AD since 2013. Iulia has great experience working with international teams from Germany, Portugal, Japan, Romania, Moldova. She has been awarded in a few national and international film festivals. Since 2018 she has been working as a director in Japan.
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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". He won many awards in festivals with his short film screenplay named “BARCODE".
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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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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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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.
