Sinan AkkuÅŸ
Sinan Akkuş ( born December 17, 1970 in Erzincan, Turkey) is a German -Turkish director, actor, screenwriter and film producer.
- 3.1 Day of the German short film
- 3.2 Rüsselsheimer Film Festival
- 3.3 Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis
- 3.4 Lünen Film Festival
- 3.5 Berlin & Beyond San Francisco
- 3.6 Silver Horse Awards Ghent
Life and work
Akkuş Sinan was born in Turkey. Even as a child he moved in 1973 to Germany. After finishing high school in Kassel he studied from 1992 to 1994 Philosophy and German. In 1994 he also began with the study of visual communication with the main focus on film and television. In addition, Sinan Akkuş worked in film and television production company kigali -films, where he worked at camera, editing and design of image films. In 1995 he visited as an exchange student in Cuba, the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión. Then in 2000 he graduated at the Kassel Art Academy with a focus on film and television.
Sinan Akkuş also appears as an actor in appearance. Among other things, he played in the first season of the ProSieben comedy series Stromberg Stromberg's colleagues and strongest competitors Turçulu Sinan, who also appears in the movie for the series. In the series Dr. Psycho - The evil, the cops, my wife and I with Christian elm Sinan Akkuş had a guest appearance in the episode The Turk, where he played a police spy.
2007/2008 he worked on his first feature film Evet, I want!, Which was in November 2008 awarded at film festival Lünen the Audience Award ( Lüdia ) and came to German cinemas on 1 October 2009. In this culture clash comedy is Sinan Akkuş a spicy topic assumes: Turks and marriage. The for Evet, I want! produced Teaser Stromberg (k ) a heart for Turks of Sinan Akkuş has so far received almost 865,000 views on Youtube. It announces Bernd Stromberg, the main character from the TV series Stromberg, the movie of his colleagues and competitors Sinan Turçulu.
Previously, short films by Sinan Akkuş already had received honors. Thus, Lassie (2002), among others excellent value with the first prize in the short film Hofheimer Prize and the predicate.
Since 1998, Sinan Akkuş lives in Cologne.
Filmography (selection)
Writer / Director
Spectacle
- 2000: Football is our life
- 2000: ... and that's just the beginning
- 2001: Sheriff
- 2003: Lassie ( short film )
- 2004: Stromberg (TV series ) ( participation in eight episodes)
- 2007: Dr. Psycho - The evil, the cops, my wife and I ( TV series)
- 2008: Evet, I want!
- 2013: Dear Courtney
- 2013: 00 Schneider - At the turning circle of the lizard
- 2013: King Ping - Tap Tappen Tödchen
- 2014: Stromberg - The Movie
Others
- 2009: The village ( koy ) (Short Film ) (Camera)
Awards
Day of the German short film
- 2001: Friedrich- Wilhelm -Murnau -Award for Sevda is love
Rüsselsheimer Film Festival
- 2003: Second place in the Audience Award for Lassie
Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis
- 2003: nominated for the Max Ophüls Award in the category Best Short Film for Lassie
Lünen Film Festival
- 2008: Winner of the Audience Award for Evet, I Will
Berlin & Beyond San Francisco
- 2009: Winner of the Audience Award for Evet, I Will
Silver Horse Awards Ghent
- 2011: Prize for the best film for Evet, I Will