Burak Oğuz Saguner
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Biography
Born to Turkish migrant parents, in Sydney, Australia, and raised in Istanbul, Turkey, Burak Oguz Saguner graduated from North Sydney College of TAFE NSW in 2004, where he studied Screen & TV Production. As a cinematographer, he worked on numerous independent short and feature films, documentaries, commercials, and music videos in different parts of the world including Australia, Vietnam, Germany, Switzerland, Greece, Italy, and Turkey. In 2013 Burak co-wrote, produced, shot and edited the short film IN AUTUMN, which world-premiered at the 29th Warsaw Film Festival and won the Rising Star Award at the 2014 Canada International Film Festival. Burak Oguz Saguner completed a Postgraduate Degree in Cinematography at AFTRS (Australian Film, TV and Radio School) in 2014. During this time, he shot DRIFTWOOD DUSTMITES, which world-premiered at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival and subsequently won him Best Achievement in Cinematography Award at the St Kilda Film Festival and Best Cinematography Award at the Canberra Short Film Festival in 2016. This year, Burak wrote, produced and directed the short films, ONE THIRD OF A SECOND, WAYFARERS and A STRANGE SEASON and, now he is in development for his next project BITTER. IMDB mini bio by yusufpiskin
Known For
How long should you wait for the life you expected and imagined to turn up? How long is too long and should one wait at all? Angela, Beth, Peter and Adam each have a life: one is living it, one is desperately chasing it, and another has woken up to it while the other is still trying to figure it out. In Autumn is a film about walking out on the fears and self imposed life sentences that prevent us from living full and genuine lives.
In Autumn
Four friends become unlikely bystanders to an incident of domestic violence. What will they do?
Bitter
Aishe sees her father kiss his new love for the first time since her mother's death. Unable to sleep she wakes up her younger sister for company.
Driftwood Dustmites
Two young women convince each other they are under threat after accidentally photographing what they believe to be a concealed automatic rifle. Shot in drawn-out, static takes, Emma Doxiadi’s comical mystery comments on Greece’s ongoing refugee crisis in real time, pointing squarely at foolish knee-jerk reactions.
Automatic
Ilyas, an expatriate writer who lived most of his adult life in Australia, returns to Turkey in the hope of finding inspiration for his new book. Instead, he ends up having to deal with the breakdown of a relationship and, a deepening writer's block, in a land he feels estranged.