Bilge Ebiri is a Turkish American

Turkish American

Turkish Americans are people who have Turkish ancestry and are citizens of the United States.-History:Early Turkish immigrants to the United States were predominantly from Turkey's rural community. They settled in large, industrial cities and found employment as unskilled laborers...

 journalist

Journalist

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 and filmmaker. He was born in 1973 in York

York

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, England

England

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. Currently, Ebiri is a film critic for New York Magazine and Nerve.com. His first feature film, a comedy thriller entitled New Guy, was released in 2004.

Biography

Ebiri studied film at Yale University

Yale University

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, where his thesis film Bad Neighborhood won the Lamar Prize for Achievement in Film. After graduation, Ebiri worked as an assistant director for Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov

Nikita Mikhalkov

Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov is a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, actor, and head of the Russian Cinematographers' Union.Mikhalkov was born in Moscow into the distinguished, artistic Mikhalkov family. His great grandfather was the imperial governor of Yaroslavl, whose mother was a Galitzine princess...

 on The Barber of Siberia

The Barber of Siberia

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. In 2003, he wrote, directed, and co-produced the low-budget feature film New Guy. It was released in 2004, and, after positive reviews in The New York Times

The New York Times

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 and Variety

Variety (magazine)

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, had a successful theatrical run in New York City

New York City

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. It was released on DVD in 2005 by Vanguard Cinema.

Filmography

• Bad Neighborhood (1995)
• Infernal Racket (1996)
• New Guy (2003)
• Purse Snatcher (2006)

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