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 début real-life feature film, Should I Really Do It?, which he produced, wrote, directed, shot and edited, was shown at the 34th Toronto IFF 2009 as an official selection in the Discovery program, and in many other international film festivals–including Montreal, Reykjavik, Sao Paulo, Haifa, Rome, Hamburg, Bangkok, Cairo, Costa Rica, Göteborg, Mumbai and Thessaloniki. The movie received the Daniel Langlois Innovation Award at the International Competition of the 38th Montreal International Festival du Nouveau Cinéma 2009; Most Promising New Director Award and Most Promising New Screenwriter Award at the 20th Ankara International Film Festival 2009; and Audience Choice Award at the International Competition of the inaugural Rome Gender DocuFilm Festival 2010. The movie was also… read more
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 début real-life feature film, Should I Really Do It?, which he produced, wrote, directed, shot and edited, was shown at the 34th Toronto IFF 2009 as an official selection in the Discovery program, and in many other international film festivals–including Montreal, Reykjavik, Sao Paulo, Haifa, Rome, Hamburg, Bangkok, Cairo, Costa Rica, Göteborg, Mumbai and Thessaloniki. The movie received the Daniel Langlois Innovation Award at the International Competition of the 38th Montreal International Festival du Nouveau Cinéma 2009; Most Promising New Director Award and Most Promising New Screenwriter Award at the 20th Ankara International Film Festival 2009; and Audience Choice Award at the International Competition of the inaugural Rome Gender DocuFilm Festival 2010. The movie was also shown at Istanbul Modern, Istanbul’s Museum of Modern Art, as the opening movie of an interdisciplinary conference on fetishism.
In addition to his creative work, Necmi 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’s Kadir Has University.
Stills From Unmade Films – A Black & White Photo Exhibition by Ismail Necmi
Macedonian Museum Of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki – 2010
51st Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Transformation – A Black & White Photo Exhibition by Ismail Necmi
Dulcinea Contemporary Art Gallery, Istanbul – 2001
AWARDS
Daniel Langlois Innovation Award
38th Montreal International Festival du Nouveau Cinéma 2009
International Competition
Most Promising New Director Award
Most Promising New Screenwriter Award
20th Ankara International Film Festival 2009
National Competition
Audience Choice Award
1st Rome Gender DocuFilm Festival 2010
International Competition
FESTIVALS
34th Toronto International Film Festival 2009
Official Selection – Discovery
38th Montreal International Festival du Nouveau Cinéma 2009
International Competition – Louve d’Or
Daniel Langlois Innovation Award
6th Reykjavik International Film Festival 2009
International Competition – New Visions
33rd São Paulo International Film Festival 2009
International Competition – New Directors
25th Haifa International Film Festival 2009
International Fipresci Competition – New Directors / New Horizons
1st Rome Gender DocuFilm Festival 2010
International Competition – Visions Around The Body
Audience Choice Award
7th If Istanbul International Independent Film Festival 2008
International Competition – Discovery
17th Hamburg International Film Festival 2009
Official Selection – Agenda 09
33rd Cairo International Film Festival 2009
Official Selection – Festival of Festivals
7th World Film Festival of Bangkok 2009
Official Selection – World Cinema: Cinema Beat
11th Mumbai Film Festival 2009
Official Selection – Above the Cut
11th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival 2009
Official Selection – Portraits: Human Journeys
3rd Costa Rica International Film Festival 2009
Official Selection – Montezuma
33rd Göteborg International Film Festival 2010
Official Selection – New Visions
10th Wroclaw Era New Horizons International Film Festival 2010
Official Selection – New Cinema of Turkey
3rd Fetisch Film Festival Kiel 2010
Official Selection
20th Ankara International Film Festival 2009
National Competition
Most Promising New Director Award
Most Promising New Screenwriter Award
45th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival 2008
National Competition
16th Adana Golden Boll Film Festival 2009
Turkish Cinema: Special Selection
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Conference Opening Film
An Interdisciplinary Conference on Fetishism
“Substitute Lack! / Accept No Substitutes!”
Istanbul MODERN – Museum of Modern Art
Conference Opening Film
New Directions in Turkish Film Studies Conference IX
“Cinema and Reality”
Istanbul Kadir Has University
Special Presentation
“Women in a Midlife Crisis”
Neues Kino Basel – Switzerland
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