Mehmet Özçelik

1 Nisan 1966, Kurudere doğumlu. Oyun yazarlığı, yönetmenlik, yapımcılık, senaryo ve şarkı yazarlığı yaptı. 1990’da Danimarka Odense Üniversitesi Edebiyat Bölümü’nden ve 1991’de Danimarka Ulusal Film Okulu Elyazması Bölümünden mezun oldu.

Yönetmenliğini Yaptığı Belgesel Filmler

The Mirror - 2004

The Danish Goldsmith (Danimarkalı Kuyumcu) - 2003
40. Altın Portakal Film Festivali, 9. Kısa Film ve Video Yarışması, Belgesel Dalı Yarışma Dışı Gösterim. 2003

Bent Gabrielsen - 2003

Yönetmenliğini Yaptığı Kısa Filmler

Sranger Within Me - 2001
Thirst For Revenge - 2002
Garden Of Rest - 2004

Graven - 2004 .... Kurmaca, 00:14:00
41. Antalya Altın Portakal Kısa Film ve Video Yarışması, Kurmaca Dalı. 2004











Born 1966 in Turkey. Living in Copenhagen, Denmark
Director, script and song writer, playwright, video and poetry installations...

EDUCATION:

1991 National Film School of Denmark: graduated from Manuscript Line.
1990 University of Odense, Denmark: graduated as B.A. (cand.art.) in Literature.

AWARDS:

2003 Best screenplay for "Stranger Within Me", Dahlonega, USA.
DCIFF Grand Jury Award for "Thirst For Revenge", Washington DC, USA.

2002 Best Foreign Short Film for "Stranger Within Me", New York International Independent Video and Film Festival in Los Angeles.

1996 1. prize for the play "Europas Gud Ramon", in the Cultural City 96 drama competition, Copenhagen.

GRANTS:

2002 Velux Fonden - The Velux Foundation, Bent Gabrielsen - A Danish Goldsmith.

2000 Drost Fonden - The Drost Foundation.
Statens Kunstfonds toårige Igangsætningsstipendium - The Danish National Art Foundation.

1999 Foreningen Af Danske Sceneinstruktørerslegat til New York. - The Danish Stage Directors. Travel grant to New York (The Pulse-project).
Birch-Krogboe A/S, consultants and planners, founded 1912, is a major Danish consulting, engineering, and construction company.
Statens Kunstfonds toårige Igangsætningsstipendium - The Danish National Art Foundation. Start-up grant for 2 years.

1998 Wilhelm Hansen Fondens arbejds- og rejselegat - The Wilhelm Hansen Foundation. Work and travel grant.

1997 Danske Dramatikeres Forbunds rejselegat - The Danish Dramatists' Association. Travel grant.

FILM FESTIVALS - please go to www.memofilm.dk/festivals

2003 SITGES - Festival International de Cinema de Catalunya (Stranger Within Me)
Cinema Mediterranee (Stranger Within Me, Thirst For Revenge, Bent Gabrielsen - A Danish Goldsmith)
The International Panorama of Independent Film Makers (Bent Gabrielsen - A Danish Goldsmith)
The Dahlonega International Film Festival (Stranger Within Me, Thirst For Revenge)
DC Independent Film Festival (Thirst For Revenge).
York Independent Film Festival (Thirst For Revenge).
26. Göteborg Film Festival (Thirst For Revenge).
!f Istanbul Independent Film Festival (Thirst For Revenge).

2002 The 59. Venice Film Festival (Thirst For Revenge - world premiere).
New York Turkish Film Festival (Thirst For Revenge).
Antalya Golden Orange Int. Short Film Festival (Thirst For Revenge).
Filmstock Int. Film Festival, UK. (Stranger Within me).
Fayetteville FilmFest, Arkansas, USA (Fremmed Landskab - Stranger Within me).
New York International Independent Video and Film Festival, USA (Stranger Within me).
New York International Independent Video and Film Festival in Los Angeles (Best Foreign Short Film Stranger Within me).
New York International Independent Video and Film Festival in Las Vegas (Stranger Within me).

2001 Ankara Int. Film Festival 2001, Turkey (Fremmed Landskab - Stranger Within me). - Invited.
Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival 2001, Turkey (Fremmed Landskab - Stranger Within me).
IndoKina online Film Festival 2001, Korea (Farewell My Love - music video)


PLAYS:

1998 1001 Nat: Der var engang... (Arabian Nights: Once upon a Time...). Playwright and Director. Performed in October, 1998,
Dagmar's Theater, Kulturværkstedet Dagmar, Copenhagen.
Hun er bare en engel... (She's almost an angel...) Playwright. Commissioned by the DAT Organization.

1997 Karl hævner sig... (Karl's Revenge). Playwright and Director. A children's play for Islands Brygge School, Copenhagen.

1997 Talkshow. Playwright and Director.. Performed by the Terra Nova Theatre, at Matthæusgade School, Copenhagen. Commissioned by the SSP.

1997 Europas Gud Ramon (Ramon, God of Europe). Playwright. Music by C. C. Ryder.
dialoPublished by Drama, Copenhagen. Won 1. prize in Cultural City 96.


FILMS, SONGS, RADIO:

2003 4. Short film. In Production GRAVEN Dur 10min. spring 2004.Starring Mette Ahrenkiel, Runi Lewerissa, Rikke Lyllof.

2003 3. film but 1. documentary Bent Gabrielsen - A Danish Goldsmith. Dur. 48 min.

2002 2. short film Thirst For Revenge. Starring Mette Ahrenkiel, Runi Lewerissa. Dur: 8.45 min.

2001 1. short film Super 16 mm film Stranger Within Me. Starring Runi Lewerissa, Michelle Björn-Andersen, Benedikte Hansen,
Jörn Gotlieb, Rikke Lylloff. Script writer, producer, and director. Dur: 27 min.
You Are The Flower, The Sound Of Poetry, poetry collection (CD) published by International Library of Poetry; USA.

1999 New York's Pulse for the Danish Radio P1. Producer Jacob Zeuthen.

1998 Film: Havet (The Sea). Short feature. Script writer, producer, and director.

1998 Lyrics for songs. Music composed in collaboration with C. C Ryder.


PUBLICATIONS:

2001 You Are The Flower - Nature's Echoes - Poetry Anthology, published by Library Congress; USA.

2000 Roser I Havet - en fortælling (Roses In The Sea) et uddrag i Dagens Danmark.
Full Of Disgrace - poem, Europ Magazine.

1998 Collection of Poems: Yasmin - den store Kærlighed (Yasmin, the One and Only). In Net-Bog-Klubben, Copenhagen.

1996 Collection of Poems: Blå cisterne (Blue Cistern). In Net-Bog-Klubben.

1991 To Dosin, (Two Dozen) published by Drage Forlaget, Kolding.
Indvandrer og afmagt, (Foreign And Powerless) published by Rostras Forlaget, Copenhagen.

1990 To Love Another Is To Kill Another, published by Drage Forlaget, Kolding.

1988 Roser i snø (Roses In The Snow) published by Cappelen, Oslo, Norway.


INSTALLATIONS:

1999 Long Distance - a poem/music installation, Gallery Projekt.
2000 - a video/glass installation, Gallery Projekt.

1998 Farewell My Love - video installation: For Rigmor K. Rasmussen's at Studio Kausch, Kassel, Germany.
Galleri Projekt's group show: Fallen Rose - video installation.
Galleri Projekt's group show: Kalejdoskop text to Ann Susan's installations: Coffee, Copenhagen.
Galleri Marius's group show: Engle (Angels) Copenhagen.

1997 Galleri Projekt's group show: Kalejdoskop with the installation: Til jeg vågner (Till I Awake).
Galleri Projekt's group show: Karla from Skørping - video and Empty beauty -installation.

1994 Galleri Projekt group show: Mothers - installation.

1987 3 photos with poems together with other photographers/ pressefotografer (Koldinghus, Kolding).


MISCELLANEOUS:

1999 Spring Awakenning production assistant, La Mama, New York.
A Book of Bélen assisted director Ruth Maleczech, Mabou Mines, New York.

1998 Internship with Kumpanya, experimental theatre in Istanbul, Turkey.

1994 L'hombre - en forbavsende kort opera (The Man - a short opera) Riddersalen, assistant to director.

1993 8000 C (8000 C) Theatre Svalegangen, Aarhus: assistant to director.




Kaynak
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