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Sami Mermer
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He studied Mathematics at the University of Ankara from 1994 to 1996. From 1996 to 2000, he studied Engineering of environment at the University of Istanbul. He studied cinema at the University of Mesopotamia from 1998 to 2000.
From 2000 to 2002, he studied French/Cinema Studies at the University of Quebec.
Career
lieutenant was shown at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He worked on several documentaries and fiction films, as a director and director of photography. "The Box of Lanzo, 102 minutes, was his first feature documentary about homeless people which he directed, edited and shot almost entirely in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
In 2006, he collaborated as writer/director & DP with Benjamin Hoekstra on a feature-length fiction project, The Extra," shot in both Los Angeles and Michigan, and since reduced to a short film.
From December 2006 to July 2007 he lived in Morocco and he opened a production company called Turtle Productions with Hind Benchekroun based in Casablanca. Mermer and Benchekroun are co-writer, co-director and co-producers of Traces of Time, Les Vendeurs ambulants, Le Pompiste and À quelque pas de la ligne.
Mermer has lived in Montreal since July 2007. Grand Rapids. (as camera).
Achievements
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He was co-writer and assistant director of Ax (the land), winner of several prizes and awarded best film in the 2000 Hamburg Film Festival. In Grand Rapids, Michigan, he co-directed, with Aaron B. Smith a short fiction film called Sortie, winner of Compass School for Cinematic Arts 24 Hour Film competition.
