Born in Turkey, Ismail Necmi works as an independent filmmaker and photographer. After graduating in Law from Istanbul University, he collaborated on a number of movies, shorts and documentaries. His début real-life feature film, “Should I Really Do It?”, which he produced, wrote, directed, shot and edited, has been shown at 34th Toronto International Film Festival 2009 as Official Selection - Discovery and many other international film festivals, including Montreal, Reykjavik, São Paulo, Haifa,Hamburg, Bangkok, Cairo, Costa Rica, Göteborg, Mumbai and Thessaloniki. The movie was awarded'Daniel Langlois Innovation Award' at the International Competition of the 38th Montreal International Festival du Nouveau Cinéma 2009, and both 'Most Promising New Director Award' and 'Most Promising New Screenwriter Award' at the 20th Ankara International Film Festival 2009. The moviewas also shown at Istanbul MODERN - the Museum of Modern Art, as the opening movie of an Interdisciplinary Conference on Fetishism. In addition to his creative work, he has also taught at a number of universities, including the departments of Visual Communication Design and Photography at Istanbul Bilgi University. He is currently an instructor in the Department of Radio - Television and Cinema at Istanbul Kadir Has University
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