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ErhanArık

Erhan Arık was born in Ardahan, Turkey in 1984 and studied journalism. Since 2010, he has worked on photography and video projects focused on the memory of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. His project, which he shot in the villages at the border between Turkey and Armenia titled “Horovel”, was exhibited in Turkey, Armenia, and France His photography work “Gayan” which he started in 2014, is about the Armenian diaspora of the Middle East and was exhibited in Turkey and Iran in 2016. His documentary works “Remembering” and “Voice” were shown in IDFA under the Doc Next section. In 2021, he founded Horovel Films with Meryem Yavuz to produce documentary films.

MeryemYavuz

Meryem Yavuz was born in İstanbul, Turkey, and studied film. In 2009, she was selected for the Berlinale Talent Campus. She was accepted to the American Society of Cinematographers Vision Mentorship Program in 2020 Independent short, feature-length fiction, and documentary films for which she worked as a cinematographer were screened at Cannes, Berlinale, Venice, Toronto, Tokyo, Clermont Ferrand, Camerimage, DokLeipzig, IDFA, and many international festivals. She worked with well-known contemporary artists for their video works, and organized workshops on cinematography at film schools in Turkey. In 2021, she founded Horovel Films with Erhan Arık to produce documentary films.