Sabri Kaliç, born on May 19, 1966 in İzmir

Izmir

Izmir is a large metropolis in the western extremity of Anatolia. The metropolitan area in the entire Izmir Province had a population of 3.35 million as of 2010, making the city third most populous in Turkey...

, Turkey

Turkey

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 is a Turkish film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

, experimental film producer

Film producer

A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

 and writer.

After receiving his BA

Bachelor of Arts

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 in film directing from the Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi in İzmir, he moved to Istanbul

Istanbul

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 in 1992. Having served acclaimed Turkish film director Sinan Çetin

Sinan Çetin

Sinan Çetin is a Turkish actor, film director, and producer.Çetin was born as the son of a customs officer and studied art history at Hacettepe University. Çetin has produced full-length films and television series, and foremost, commercials...

 as an assistant for a while, he made his TV film debut with Midnight Hitchhiker in 1995. Kalic is mostly known with his experimental films and videos having their unique style.

Filmography

• A Fassbinder Lie - 1987 (1/24 second {1 frame!}, 16 mm., b/w)
• PO"y"EM - 1987 (4 seconds, 16 mm., b/w)
• Not The Longest Film You Will Ever See, But... - 1987 (1 second, 16 mm., b/w)
• 59" - 1987 (59 seconds, 16 mm., b/w)
• Bolero - 1990 (17 min., VHS, color)
• Das ist Eine Video-Kunst - 1991 (13 min., VHS, color)
• Keine Kunst Bitte - 1991 (9 min., VHS, color)
• Douche Opera - 1992 (5 min., VHS, color)
• Midnight Hitchhiker - 1995 (87 min, BETACAM, color)
• The Spider Web - 1998 (92 min., BETACAM, color)
• Sabri Kaliç : CV- 2000 (27 min., BETACAM, color)
• Midnight Stories - 2000 (85 min., BETACAM, color)
• Non - 2002 (no color, no format)
• Stories From Beyond - 2005 (62 min., BETACAM, color)
• Stories From Beyond -II - 2005 (59 min., BETACAM, color)

Jury memberships

• IFSAK Short Film Festival - 1995
• Orhon Murat Ariburnu Short Film Festival - 2000
• 3. Yildiz University Short Film Festival - 2006

Awards

• 1987 Ankara Film Festival Invitation
• 1992 Adana Student Films Festival Invitation
• 1992 A Concise History Of Experimental Film - Turkish Ministry of Culture "Cinema Book of the Year" Award
• 1996 Moths Towards The Fire - Turkish Ministry of Culture "Script of the Year" Award
• 1996 Spaghetti With Yogurt - Orhon Murat Arıburnu "Best Film Story" Award
• 2005 Meta-Film Award - Experimental Film Award delivered by Meta-Film Underground, Holland

Published works

• Yes, But Can A Steam Engine Do This? (Translation from Woody Allen
  Woody Allen
  Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema...
  
  , Ayrinti Publication, Istanbul, 1989)
• Annie Hall (Translation from Woody Allen, Hil Publication, 1991, Istanbul)
• A Concise History Of Experimental Film (Hil Publication, Istanbul, 1992)
• Andy Warhol: As An Experimental Film-maker (Yapi Kredi Publication, Istanbul, 1997)
• The Frog Who Assumes It Is A Prince (Novel) (Stüdyo Imge Books, Istanbul, 2001)
• EMINEM (Stüdyo Imge Books, Istanbul, 2001)
• Trainspotting (Translation from Irvine Welsh
  Irvine Welsh
  Irvine Welsh is a contemporary Scottish novelist, best known for his novel Trainspotting. His work is characterised by raw Scottish dialect, and brutal depiction of the realities of Edinburgh life...
  
  , Stüdyo Imge Books, Istanbul, 2001)
• Ecstasy Club (Translation from Douglas Rushkoff
  Douglas Rushkoff
  Douglas Rushkoff is an American media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist and documentarian. He is best known for his association with the early cyberpunk culture, and his advocacy of open source solutions to social problems.Rushkoff is most frequently regarded as a media...
  
  , Stüdyo Imge Books,Istanbul, 2002)
• Restrain Of The Beasts (Translation from Magnus Mills
  Magnus Mills
  - Background :Magnus Mills was born in Birmingham and brought up in Bristol. After graduating with an economics degree from Wolverhampton Polytechnic, he started a masters degree at the University of Warwick but dropped out before completion....
  
  , Stüdyo Imge Books, Istanbul, 2002)
• Show : A Guide To Understanding EMINEM & Hip-hop (Stüdyo Imge Books, Istanbul, 2003)
• 2pac Shakur: Death Of A Rebel (Stüdyo Imge Books, Istanbul, 2004)
• 24: The House Special Subcommittee's Findings at CTU (Translation from Marc Cerasini) (Stüdyo Imge Books, Istanbul, 2004)
• Trivial Truths (Aykiri Publications, Istanbul, 2004)
• You're My Mother, That's What You Are! (Neden Books, Istanbul, 2005)
• You're My Father, That's What You Are! (Neden Books, Istanbul, 2005)
• Dictionary of Foreign Words and Expressions in Turkish (3F Publishing, Istanbul, 2006)
• Genius on the Edge: Syd Barrett (Stüdyo Imge Books, Istanbul, 2006)
• The Templar Revelation (Translation from Lynn Picnett and Clive Prince, Neden Books, Istanbul, 2006)
• Who Won the Oil Wars? (Translation from Andy Stern
  Andy Stern
  Andrew L. "Andy" Stern , is the former president of the 2.2 million-member Service Employees International Union , the fastest-growing union in the Americas. SEIU is the second largest union in the United States and Canada after the National Education Association.Stern was elected in 1996 to...
  
  , Neden Books, Istanbul 2007)
• LOST: Endangered Species (Translation from Cathy Hapka, Neden Books, Istanbul 2007)
• Sean Penn: His Life and Times (Translation from Richard T. Kelly, Studyo Imge Books, Istanbul 2007)
• LOST: Secret Identity (Translation from Cathy Hapka, Neden Books, Istanbul 2007)
• Michael Jackson: King of Pop (Studyo Imge Books, Istanbul 2009)