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Bilge Ebiri is a Turkish-American journalist and filmmaker. He was born in 1973 in York, England. Currently, Ebiri is a film critic for New York Magazine and Nerve.com. His first feature film, a comedy thriller entitled New Guy, was released in 2004.
Biography
Ebiri studied film at Yale University, where his thesis film Bad
Neighborhood won the Lamar Prize for Achievement in Film. After
graduation, Ebiri worked as an assistant director for Russian director
Nikita Mikhalkov on The Barber of Siberia. In 2003, he wrote, directed,
and co-produced the low-budget feature film New Guy. It was released in
2004, and, after positive reviews in The New York Times and Variety,
had a successful theatrical run in New York City. It was released on
DVD in 2005 by Vanguard cinema.
Filmography
- Bad Neighborhood (1995)
- Infernal Racket (1996)
- New Guy (2003)
- Purse Snatcher (2006)
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