Ismail Necmi
- Cinematographer
- Producer
- Director
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 debut
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,
Sao Paulo, Haifa, Hamburg, Bangkok, Cairo, Costa Rica, Gothenburg,
Mumbai and Thessaloniki. The movie was awarded 'Daniel Langlois
Innovation Award' at the International Competition of the 38th Montreal
International Festival du Nouveau Cinema 2009, and both 'Most Promising
New Director Award' and 'Most Promising New Screenwriter Award' at the
20th Ankara International Film Festival 2009. The movie was 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.
