melis birder

<p>Melis Birder is one of the founders of inHouse projects that realize independent media works.</p> <p>Moved to <span class="caps">USA</span>, after her native studies in Turkey, she has worked as an educator and realized video programs in the low income neighborhoods of New York for about 5 years. During the same period, she has directed documentaries for social service agencies; &#8220;Missing Bird&#8221; was about the effects of September 11th on the Muslim and Arab population of New York. “Crossing Brooklyn” commissioned by Brooklyn Public Library was about 3 teenagers from different neighborhoods of Brooklyn.</p> <p>In 2005 Birder has directed her first award-winning independent documentary: The Tenth Planet &#8220;A Single Life in Baghdad&#8221; that she filmed in Baghdad. The film has participated to many film festivals around the globe.</p> <p>In 2006, she received the Sundance Documentary Grant for her current project The Visitors.</p> <p>Birder now lives between Istanbul and New York and undertakes different documentary projects in those countries.</p> <p>http://tenth-planet.org/<br /> http://filmist.org/<br /> http://www.visitorsdocumentary.com/</p>

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