12th BOSTON TURKISH FESTIVALSM

Colors of Anatolia
 
OCTOBER 29 - DECEMBER 15, 2007
 
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DOCUMENTARY AND SHORT FILM COMPETITION

 

Friday - November 23, 2007    at 9 p.m.


Main Auditorium
Harvard Film Archive
Carpenter Center for the Arts, Cambridge
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In Competition

OCTOPUS HUNTER

Ahtapot Avcisi

Written and directed by Devrim Erdogan


Documentary / Turkey / 2006 / 12 min.


A day in the life of an octopus hunter on the island of Zanzibar.

 

 


Director DEVRIM ERDOGAN:




Born in Istanbul in 1980, Devrim Erdogan graduated from the Cinema and Television Department of the Istanbul University Faculty of Communications. He won many awards for his students films. Since 2004 he has been working as a director and cinematographer for Oteki Production and as a research assistant for the Kultur University, Faculty of Arts and Design. Octopus Hunter won Best Documentary Award in the Akbank Short Film Festival and Third Prize in the Safranbolu Documentary Film Festival.