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Yusuf Aslanyurek

Date of Birth / Doğum Tarihi
26 February 1982, Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union

Mini Biography / Biyografi
Yusuf Aslanyurek was born in Moscow, Russia, in 26th of February, 1982. His father is a Turkish screenwriter, director and academician, and his mother a geology engineer. He returned to Turkey at the age of 6, and after graduating from the technical college for electronics, his career in cinematography has started when he became an assistant to Hayk Kirakosyan, who began working in Turkey at that time (away from home - 1999). After his first feature film as an assistant cameraman, Yusuf continued working with Turkish directors of photography, in numerous advertisements and video clips. Yusuf assisted Kirakosyan in all of his feature films until 2002, and then he decided to attend the All Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow, from which his father was also graduated. He became a student of Leonid Kalashnikov, and he left VGIK upon his master's death in 2006. During his education at VGIK, he gained extensive experience in the shooting of many 35mm short movies. While providing him invaluable education in cinematography, VGIK has also raised his self-confidence. Having the highest grades in his faculty at VGIK, he transferred to and graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Marmara University, in which his father works as an academician. Shortly after his return to Turkey, he worked as the second unit director of photography in "Hacivat ve Karagoz Neden olduruldu", a feature film directed by Ezel Akay. After this project, his interest in chemistry led him to work as the lab manager for Safak Film Studios, which also undertook the post production of the project. While establishing his own lab during this period, he took notes of his experiments for a future book he wants to publish, and shared the results with his cinematographer colleagues. A few months later, he started to work as the assistant to Eyup Boz, the director of photography of his father's project, Eve Giden Yol. When Eyup Boz left the project, Yusuf completed the film, and it became his first feature film as a director of photography. IMDb Mini Biography By: 0419

Trivia / Önemsiz Şeyler
Son of Semir Aslanyurek