Derviş Zaim

Last updated • 2 min readFrom Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Derviş Zaim
Born
Derviş Zaimağaoğlu

1964 (age 5960)
Occupation(s)Filmmaker, novelist
Years active1990–present

Derviş Zaim (born Derviş Zaimağaoğlu in 1964) is a Turkish Cypriot filmmaker and novelist, who has twice won the Golden Orange for Best Director for Elephants and Grass (2000) and Dot (2008); Golden Oranges for Best Film and Best Screenplay for Somersault in a Coffin (1996); and the Yunus Nadi literary prize for his debut novel Ares in Wonderland (1995). [1] [2]

Contents

Biography

Derviş Zaim was educated at Famagusta Namık Kemal High School and graduated in Business Administration from Boğaziçi University in 1988. He attended a course in independent film production in London and made experimental video Hang the Camera (1991). He subsequently wrote, produced and directed numerous television programs starting with the documentary Rock around the Mosque (1993). He completed his master's degree in Cultural Studies at the University of Warwick in 1994. His first novel, Ares in Wonderland (1995), won the prestigious Yunus Nadi literary prize in Turkey.

Somersault in a Coffin (1996) was his debut as director and screenwriter, which won awards at film festivals in Antalya, Montpellier, San Francisco, Thessalonika and Torino. He followed it with Elephants and Grass (2000), which won awards at film festivals in Antalya and Istanbul, and Mud (2003), which won the UNESCO Award at the Venice Film Festival.

He co-directed the documentary Parallel Trips (2004) with Panicos Chrysanthou, in which the two directors, from opposite sides of the divided island of Cyprus, recorded the human dramas that unfolded during the war of 1974 and the legacy that remains today. He later produced the Greek Cypriot director's fictional feature debut Akamas (2006) about a love affair between a Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot.

He made a trilogy of films, themed around traditional Turkish arts, consisting of Waiting for Heaven (2006), which was nominated for the Golden Tulip at the Istanbul International Film Festival, Dot (2008), which won awards at film festivals in Antalya and Istanbul, and Shadows and Faces (2010), which won the Turkish Film Critics Association Award at the 47th International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival.

He also teaches at Istanbul Bilgi University and Boğaziçi University.

Filmography

Films, Television & Video
YearTitleCredited asNotes
Director Producer Writer
1991 Hang the Camera (Turkish : Kamerayı As)YesYesYesExperimental video.
1993 Rock around the Mosque YesYesYesTelevision Documentary.
1996 Somersault in a Coffin (Turkish : Tabutta Rövasata)YesYes
2000 Elephants and Grass (Turkish : Filler ve Çimen)YesYesYes
2003 Mud (Turkish : Çamur)YesYesYes
2004 Parallel Trips (Turkish : Paralel Yolculuklar)YesYesYesDocumentary made with Panicos Chrysanthou.
2006 Waiting for Heaven (Turkish : Cenneti Beklerken)YesYesYes
2006 Akamas YesFictional feature debut of director Panicos Chrysanthou.
2007Dot (Turkish : Nokta)YesYesYes
2010 Shadows and Faces (Turkish : Gölgeler ve Suretler)YesYesYes
2012 Cycle (Turkish : Devir)YesYesYes
2014 Fish (Turkish : Balık)YesYesYes

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nuri Bilge Ceylan</span> Turkish film director, screenwriter, film producer and photographer (born 1959)

Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a Turkish director, screenwriter, photographer and actor. His film Winter Sleep (2014) won the Palme d'Or at the 67th Cannes Film Festival, while six of his films have been selected as Turkey's submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hülya Koçyiğit</span> Turkish actress (born 1947)

Hülya Koçyiğit is a Turkish actress. A prominent female lead in the Turkish cinema, she received numerous awards at international film festivals, including the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival. Altogether, she has acted in some 180 films.

Atıf Yılmaz Batıbeki was a renowned Turkish film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He was very much a legend in the film industry of Turkey with 119 movies directed. He also wrote screenplays for 53 movies and produced 28 movies from 1951 right up till his death in 2006. He was active in almost every period of the Turkish film industry.

Tuncel Tayanç Kurtiz was a Turkish theatre, movie and TV series actor, playwright, and film director. Since 1964, he acted in more than 70 movies, including many international productions.

<i>2 Girls</i> 2002 novel by Perihan Mağden

2 Girls is a novel by Turkish writer Perihan Mağden, first published in 2002. The novel tells the story of two teenager girls with polar characteristics drawn into each other, forming an intense friendship in milieu of man-dominated, materialistic, and oppressive pressures. The novel was translated in English by Brendan Freely and published in the United Kingdom in 2005. The novel was hailed by The Independent by the following remark, "Not since Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye has a writer animated adolescent anguish so vividly and compellingly."

<i>Elephants and Grass</i> 2001 film by Derviş Zaim

Elephants and Grass is a 2001 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Derviş Zaim, about six different stories that merge into a common theme. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on 5 January 2001, won awards at film festivals in Antalya and Istanbul, including the Golden Orange Behlül Dal Jury Special Award.

<i>Somersault in a Coffin</i> 1996 Turkish film

Somersault in a Coffin is a 1996 Turkish film, written and directed by Derviş Zaim, about a homeless criminal and car thief. The film, which was released on November 15, 1996, received awards at several international film festivals including the Golden Orange for best film at the Antalya International Film Festival.

Sanem Çelik is a Turkish actress, artist and dancer. Her series Aliye and Kara Melek has record-breakings Turkish Tv series.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">45th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival</span>

The 45th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival was held from October 10 to 19 2008 in Antalya, Turkey. Awards were presented in the 45th Antalya Golden Orange Festival in 20 categories of three competition divisions and in the 4th Eurasia Film Festival in 4 categories. The award ceremony took place on October 19, 2008 at the Konyaaltı Amphitheatre in the downtown of Antalya. It was run in conjunction with the 4th International Eurasia Film Festival.

<i>A Sip of Love</i> 1984 Turkish film

A Sip of Love is a 1984 Turkish drama film, co-written, co-produced and directed by Atıf Yılmaz, featuring Kadir İnanır and Hale Soygazi as an unhappily married couple, who are divided when he loses his job and she is forced to find factory work. The film screened in competition at the 21st Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, where it won Golden Oranges for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best Music, and the 4th International Istanbul Film Festival, where it won Best Turkish Film.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">47th International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival</span>

The 47th International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival was a film festival held in Antalya, Turkey which ran from October 9 to 14, 2010. Prizes were awarded in four competitions in the course of the festival, at which 191 films were shown at 12 venues across the city with the theme Cinema and Social Interaction and Italian actress Claudia Cardinale was the guest of honor.

<i>Five Cities</i> 2010 Turkish film

Five Cities is a 2010 Turkish drama film, written, produced and directed by Onur Ünlü, about a young policeman just arrived in Istanbul who falls in love with a woman in a candy shop. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on April 9, 2010, won awards at film festivals in Antalya and Istanbul and has been described as, an absurd poetic tale of five seemingly unrelated people’s lives.

<i>Majority</i> (film) 2010 Turkish film

Majority is a 2010 Turkish drama film directed by Seren Yüce, which tells the story of a middle class young man rebelling against his father's brutish authority while seeking a rough romance with a woman of ethnic minority. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on October 15, 2010, won several Golden Orange awards at the 47th International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival and was premiered at the 67th Venice International Film Festival, where it won the award for best debut film. Hürriyet Daily News reporter Vercihan Zilioğlu wrote that, "The director's moral tale draws on the example of today's Turkish youth and the timeless shadow of fathers over sons," and Today's Zaman reviewer Emine Yıldırım concludes that this is, "one of the rawest and truest stories from our society," and "As Yüce’s hardcore realism shows us, love sometimes does not conquer all when individuals chose to become part of the herd."

Parallel Trips is a 2004 Cypriot documentary film, written, produced and directed by Derviş Zaim and Panicos Chrysanthou, in which the two directors, from opposite sides of the divided island of Cyprus, record the human dramas that unfolded during the war of 1974 and the legacy that remains today. The film was screened at the Istanbul International Film Festival and the 12th London Turkish Film Festival.

<i>Shadows and Faces</i> 2010 Turkish drama film

Shadows and Faces is a 2010 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Turkish Cypriot director Derviş Zaim, which tells the story of a young girl who is separated from her father, a Karagöz shadow play master, during the beginning of the conflict between Turks and Greeks in Cyprus in 1963. The film, which saw a nationwide general release across Turkey on March 11, 2011, premiered in competition at the 47th International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, where it won the Turkish Film Critics Association Award. It is the third and final part of a trilogy of films themed around traditional Turkish arts, which includes Waiting for Heaven (2006) and Dot (2008).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ezel Akay</span> Turkish actor, film director and producer

Ezel Akay is a Turkish film actor, film director and film producer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">18th International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival</span>

The 18th International Adana Golden Boll Film Festival was a film festival held in Adana, Turkey from September 17 to 25, 2011. Cash prizes totalling 936,000 Turkish Liras, the highest amount given by a film festival in Turkey, were awarded for all categories, for the first time in Turkey, in three competitive sections, nearly 220 films were shown both in and out of competition in a selection described by critic Ali Koca as "one of the event’s strongest in recent years," following disappointment with the previous year's hastily rescheduled event, and there were also a range of lectures, workshops and other events, including the 1st International Golden Boll Film Congress, said to be the first to be organised during a film festival.

The London Turkish Film Festival is a film festival that takes place every year in London in the United Kingdom. It focuses on Turkish films.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Suha Arın</span> Turkish film director, writer, producer and educator

Mustafa Suha Arın was a Turkish film director, writer, producer and educator. He was born in Balikesir, Turkey. He completed his primary and secondary education in Ankara. In 1965, he went to USA to receive his license degree on film directing from Howard University and his master's degree on mass communication from the American University. He also worked as a translating speaker and interviewer at the Voice of America Radio, and as the Washington DC reporter of Turkish Radio and Television. He returned to Turkey in 1974.

Leyla Selen Uçer is a Turkish actress, best known for her role in the movie Ara and the play Bug.

References

  1. "Dervish Zaim". Turkish-Cypriot Online Museum of Fine Arts. Retrieved 21 November 2010.
  2. "Turkish Film Festival". Madison Association of Turkish Students. Archived from the original on 12 June 2010. Retrieved 21 November 2010.
Awards
Preceded by Golden Orange Award
for Best Screenplay

1996
for Tabutta Rövaşata
Succeeded by
Preceded by Golden Orange Award
for Best Director

2000
for Filler ve Çimen
Succeeded by
Preceded by Golden Orange Award
for Best Director

2008
for Nokta
Succeeded by