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.
Grantee
Meryem Yavuz
Cinematographer