Bülent Akıncı (born 10 March 1967) is a Turkish–German director and script writer. Since 1970 he lives in Berlin.
Bülent Akinci | |
|---|---|
| Born | 10 March 1967 Ankara, Turkey |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1998–present |
In his youth he earned his money as musician, security guard and by selling insurances while he was finishing his graduation certificate from high-school. After high-school he registered to study philosophy, art history, theatre sciences at Free University of Berlin.[1]
Then he was taken to study directing at Kaskeline Film School,[2] which was founded 1926 in Berlin by German filmmaker Wolfgang Kaskeline. In 1996 Akıncı changed to DFFB Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin to finish his studies.
After shooting some short films, he finally won the F. W. Murnau prize in 2002 for his short film A short story (2001), starring actress Gudrun Landgrebe.
His first feature named Der Lebensversicherer was produced in 2006 and shown at the 56th Berlin International Film Festival. It later won a prize at the 28th Moscow International Film Festival.[3]
References
edit- ^ "Filmportal.de". Archived from the original on 4 September 2007. Retrieved 15 June 2009.
- ^ "Home". kaskeline-filmakademie.de.
- ^ "28th Moscow International Film Festival (2006)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 21 April 2013. Retrieved 21 April 2013.