CV for Mehmet Özcelik Sct. Jørgens Allé 4, st. th. DK - Copenhagen V, Denmark DK- 2000 Denmark Phone: 61 38 23 74 E-mail: post@memofilm.dk Homepage: www.memofilm.dk
Mehmet Özcelik. Playwright, director, producer, script- and song writer, visual art installations... Education: 1991 National Film School of Denmark (Den Danske Filmskole): graduated from Manuscript Line. 1990 University of Odense, Denmark: graduated as B.A. (cand.art.) in Literature. Films 1. Stranger Within Me 2. Thirst For Revenge 3. Bent Gabrielsen A Danish Goldsmith 4. Graven 5. Spejlet Dokumentargruppen MOMENT 6. Yes, I am Muslim. And So What? Video, Dias and Poetry Installation too. Grants and Awards: 2004 5th Prize to Thirst For Revenge, The 10th Annual Brainwash Movie Festival BG Foundation Græsprisen Poetry award 2003 Stranger Within Me - Best screenplay, The Dahlonega International Film Festival, USA. Thirst For Revenge - DCIFF Grand Jury Award, Washington DC Film Festival, USA. 2002 Stranger Within Me won the Best foreign short film award at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival in Los Angeles. The Velux Foundation - for the film project Bent Gabrielsen, The Goldsmith. 2000 Drost Fonden - The Drost Foundation. Statens Kunstfonds toårige Igangsætningsstipendium - The Danish National Art Foundation. 1999 Foreningen Af Danske Sceneinstruktørers legat til New York. - The Danish Stage Directors. Travel grant to New York. 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 to Istanbul. 1996 1. prize for the play, Europas Gud Ramon, in the Cultural City 96 drama competition, Copenhagen. Film festivals: 2005 Odense Film Festival (The Mirror) RiverRun International Film Festival (Garden of Rest)
DC Independent Film Festival, US premiere (Garden of Rest) Ankara International Film Festival, (Garden of Rest, Thirst For Revenge) 2004 Cph:dox (As Time Goes By / The Mirror) The 10th Annual Brainwash Movie Festival (Thirst For Revenge) Microcinema Internationa (Thirst For Revenge) FotoFest (Thirst For Revenge) Blue Moon (Thirst For Revenge, Stranger Within Me) 2003 Cinema Mediterranee, The Netherlands, (Stranger Within Me, Thirst For Revenge, Bent Gabrielsen A Danish Goldsmith) SITGES - Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya, Spain, (Stranger Within Me) The Dahlonega International Film Festival, USA (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 New York Turkish Film Festival, USA (Thirst For Revenge) Antalya Golden Orange International Short Film, Turkey (Thirst For Revenge) 59 th Mostra Internazionale d'arte Cinematografica, Venice, Italy (Thirst For Revenge, World premiere, 29. 8. 2002 Sala Perla 21.30). 10th ContraVision, Germany (Thirst For Revenge) Filmstock International Film Festival, Luton, UK. (Stranger Within me). Fayetteville FilmFest, Arkansas, USA (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. (Stranger Within me). New York International Independent Video and Film Festival in Las Vegas. (Stranger Within me). 2001 Ankara film festival 2001, Turkey (Stranger Within me). Invited. Antalya Golden Orange International Short Film 2001, Turkey (Stranger Within me). IndoKina online film festival 2001, Korea (Farewell My Love music video) And more... Films, Songs, Radio: 2003 Bent Gabrielsen A Danish Goldsmith 1. documentary Dur. 48 min. 3. film 2002 Thirst For Revenge (Hævntørst). Short feature. Script writer, director and producer. Dur. 8.45 min. Staring: Mette Marie Ahrenkiel og Runi Lewerissa. 2. Film 2001 Stranger Within Me (Fremmed Landskab). Short feature. Script writer, producer, and director. Dur. 27 min. Super 16 mm. Staring: Runi Lewerissa,
Benedikte Hansen, Michelle Bjørn-Andersen, Jørn Gotlieb, Rikke Lylloff. 1. Film Videomarathon 2001 24 hours to make a short film, and 7 hours to edit it. Dur. 3 5 min. August 2001 (www.videomarathon.dk) You Are The Flower, The Sound Of Poetry, poetry collection (CD) published by International Library of Peotry; USA. 1999 New York's Pulse (30 min.) for P1, Danish Radio. Producer Jacob Zeuthen. 1998 Film: Havet (The Sea). Short feature. Script writer, producer, and director. 1998 Lyrics for songs. Music composed in collaboration with Claes Cornelius... Original Stage 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. 1996 Europas Gud Ramon (Ramon, God of Europe). Playwright and music by Claes Cornelius, Mega Scandinavia A/S.. Published by Drama, Copenhagen Won 1. prize in Cultural City 96. Publications: 2001 You Are The Flower, Nature's Echoes - poetry Anthology, published by Library Congress, USA. 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 Dusin, (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. Installation: 2005 Yes, I a Muslim. And So What? a video/poetry installation, Gallery Project. 1999 Long Distance - a poem/music installation, Gallery Projekt. 2000 - a video/glass installation, Gallery Projekt. 1998 Farewell My Love - video installation: For Rigmor Kubiak Rasmussen's exhibition 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 installation: 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 fotografers/ pressefotografers (Koldinghus, Kolding). Miscellaneous: 1999 Abandoned Shores, stage manager, Compagnie Faim De Siècle, New York. Spring Awakening production assistant, La Mama, New York. A Book of Bélen assistant to 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.