Stare Yildirim
Directing
Biography
Being an Alumni of 2013 Berlin Talent Campus from Turkiye, Stare' has a BA in American Culture and Literature and has a post-grad degree in film and tv at UC Los Angeles. She worked as a freelance filmmaker on film sets and for temp positions at Buena Vista Home and International Distribution in USA. She continued her career as President of Production and Local Acquisitions at Medyavizyon Film Distribution in Turkey (2006-2009) she was chosen as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons of Turkey by JCI. In 2010, she represented Turkish Ministry of Culture in INDIA. In 2012 November, Stare made a short film in English with her 64 years old neighbor who doesn’t speak a word of English. The same film is made into a feature film called “50 kisses,” which brought her the Best Director award in 2014 amongst the other 24 directors. The same project got into the Guinness World Book of Records. She has been an animal rights advocate and a “singer among friends” since she was a little ki
Known For
On a stretch of lonely deserted highway, Melissa and Nina - two beautiful law students traveling cross-country - end up on a horrific, high speed, all or nothing race for their lives! A psychotic game of cat and mouse with a mysterious police cruiser forces the girls to become what's hunting them.
Lost in Plainview
Sarikecilis are the last representatives in Anatolia of the centuries-old tradition of nomadism. Making their way to sea level in winter, and to the highlands in summer, they spend seven months of the year in transit, living off of the goats they keep. This documentary film is telling the story of the last Nomadic tribe in Anatolia within their natural habitat.
Last Nomads in Anatolia: Sarikecilis
Hello, my name is Batlır, not Butler. I’m not actually overweight, I just have some excess in a certain area…. It is told in Anatolia that a baby looks like whatever the mother craves while pregnant. My mother craved for watermelon. I mostly talk to 52 Hertz, she is the loneliest whale in the world, and she is my best friend.