Mennan Yapo

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Mennan Yapo
Born1966
Occupation(s) Director, screenwriter, producer, actor.
Years active1996 - present
Awards Cognac Festival du Film Policier
Special Jury Prize
2004 Lautlos

Mennan Yapo (born 1966) is a German director, screenwriter, producer and actor.

Born in Munich to Turkish parents, Yapo has been in the film business since 1988, working in various assistant jobs and as a publicist at first.

From 1995, Yapo worked as a screenwriter and producer, as well as a supporting actor (in Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book , 1996, and Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye Lenin! , 2003).

1999 marked Yapo's first outing as a director. His directing debut, the short subject Framed, was nominated for the Deutscher Filmpreis and shown at numerous international festivals.

In 2002, Yapo started working on his first full-length directing work, the thriller Soundless which became a German box-office success in 2004. It also won international critical acclaim.

Yapo's Hollywood directing debut, the drama film Premonition , starring Sandra Bullock, was released to cinemas in March 2007 and grossed $85 million worldwide.

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