Feb 16 - Middle Eastern Film Festival 2012 Masterclass with Yuksel Yavuz

Event: Masterclass with Yuksel Yavuz: A conversation with Kurdish-German filmmaker Yuksel Yavuz.
Venue: Studio 2, Screen Academy Scotland, A Skillset Film and Media Academy, Edinburgh Napier University, 2A Merchiston Avenue, Edinburgh, EH10 4NU.
Time: 2pm-4pm
Admission: FREE but booking essential. Please sign up to this event below. You must register with the Screen Academy Scotland website in order to sign up to this event.

Kurdish-German filmmaker Yuksel Yavuz, in conversation with filmmaker Amy Hardie talking about his life and career, illustrated with film clips. Yuksel Yavuz was born in Karakocan/Turkey in 1964 and moved to Germany in 1980 where he studied Economics and Sociology in Hamburg from 1986-1989. He has been involved in the film industry since 1990 and studied Visual Communication at Hamburg's Academy of Fine Arts from 1992-1996. His films include: "Die Hoch-Zeit" (video short, 1992), "Coromandel" (video short, 1993), "Freedom Pension" (video short, 1993), "100 und eine Mark" (short, 1994), "Mein Vater, der Gastarbeiter" (documentary, 1995), his first feature film "The April Children" ("Aprilkinder", 1998) and "A Little Bit of Freedom" ("Kleine Freiheit", 2002).