Murat Akser

Murat Akser is a filmmaker based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey on September 8, 1972. After attending Bogazici University, he got his BA in English in 1995 and an MA in History in 1999. He had his formal training in filmmaking at Directors Guild of Turkey in 1998 from renowned film directors such as Lütfi Akad, 'Memduh Un', 'Omer Kavur'. Nedim Otyam, 'Ertem Gorec' and Duygu Sagiroglu. Later in 1999 he attended PhD seminars at MSU Turkish Film Institute by Metin Erksan and Halit Refig. In 1999 he came to Canada to study film at York University where he got his MA in Film and Video. Between 2001-05 he was a PhD student in Communication and Culture at Ryerson University. After seven years of teaching and research on cinema at academic level he has joined International Cinematographers' Guild in 2004. Currently he directs music videos and short films for Ronin Media and Entertainment Inc. Murat Akser is responsible for organizing Norman Jewison retrospective at Bloor Cinema in 2000.