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Semih Kaplanoglu (born 1963 in İzmir, Turkey) is a Turkish playwright, film director and producer.
He graduated from the cinema and Television Section of the Faculty of
Fine Arts at the Dokuz Eylül University in his hometown. In 1984,
Kaplanoğlu moved to Istanbul and worked couple of years as a copywriter
for advertising companies like Güzel Sanatlar, Saatchi & Saatchi
and Young & Rubicam.
Career
He switched over to cinema to become an assistant cameraman for two
award-winning documentary films. Later, Kaplanoğlu wrote the script and
directed a television series with 52 episodes, which became successful
at the channels Show TV and InterStar.
The first film he directed, Herkes Kendi Evinde (Away From Home) won
many awards participating at international film festivals. Kaplanoğlu's
second feature film Meleğin Düşüşü (Fall of Angel) premiered at the
2006 Berlin International Film Festival and found wide interest by
international film critics and audience. His latest film Yumurta (Egg)
brought many international awards for best film, best director, best
screenplay.
Besides his main pursuits in cinema, Semih Kaplanoğlu wrote between
1987 and 2003 articles on plastic arts and cinema, which were published
in arts periodicals and also translated into foreign languages. In the
years from 1996 through 2000, he had a column named "Karşılaşmalar" in
the daily Newspaper Radikal.
He founded his own film production company Kaplan Film. Its first
feature film Egg was a co-production with Greece. Currently, Kaplanoğlu
is working on the film Süt (Milk), which with Yumurta (Egg) and the
film Bal (Honey) to be produced in 2008, will form a trilogy called
Yusuf Üçlemesi (Yusuf's Trilogy), named after the main character Yusuf
of the films.
Filmography
Director
- Şehnaz Tango (TV series)
- Herkes Kendi Evinde (Away From Home) (2001)
- Meleğin Düşüşü (aka Greek: Ekptotos angelos) (2005)
- Yumurta (Egg) (2007)
Screenwriter
- Şehnaz Tango (TV series)
- Meleğin Düşüşü (2004)
- Yumurta (Egg) (2007)
Producer
Editor
Awards
- 2001 Ankara International Film Festival - Best Film for Herkes Kendi Evinde
- 2001 Istanbul International Film Festival - Best Turkish Film of
the Year for Herkes Kendi Evinde (tied with Dar Alanda Kısa Paslaşmalar
(2000))
- 2002 Singapore International Film Festival - Silver Screen Award for Best Director with Herkes Kendi Evinde
- 2005 Istanbul International Film Festival - FIPRESCI Prize for Meleğin Düşüşü
- 2005 Nantes Three Continents Festival - Golden Montgolfiere for Meleğin Düşüşü
- 2006 Nuremberg Film Festival "Turkey-Germany" - Prize of the Young Filmmakers for Meleğin Düşüşü
- 2007 Valdivia International Film Festival - Best Director for Egg
- 2007 Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival - Best Picture, Best Screenplay, NETPAC Jury Award for Best Picture for Egg
- 2007 World Film Festival of Bangkok - Best Director (Harvest of Talents competition) for Egg
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