Erim Giresunlu is a director, photographer, cameraman, editor, father and husband based in Cologne, Germany. He began working on his own film and photo projects with his father’s Hi8-camcorder and Minolta XD7 analogue camera in the 1990s.  Erim Giresunlu studied film directing and audiovisual media at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.  His short film Double Room has won the Murnau Shortfilm Award. This and his other short films have been shown at numerous film festivals around the globe.  Since then he freelances and captures stories in the mountains of Japan, onboard the world’s largest flying telescope, and during a Sojus launch in Baikonur. He has worked as director, cameraman and in the post-production department for hundreds of corporate communications films.

FESTIVALS (Selection)
Cannes Film Festival (German Films Next Generation)
Kurzfilmpreis der Murnau Stiftung Wiesbaden 2008 (Preisträger)
Max-Ophüls-Preis (Wettbewerb, nominiert Bester Kurzfilm)
Königs Pilsener Webfilm Award (Nominierung Best of Three)
Internationales Festival der Filmhochschulen München
Kino 2007!- Museum of Modern Art New York
Festival des Deutschen Films Madrid
Festival des Deutschen Films Buenos Aires
Filmfestival Umea (Schweden)
Frankfurter Buchmesse (Forum Film &TV)
Rom Festival
Filmfestival Warschau (Polen)
Festival des Deutschen Films Paris
Deutsche Filmwoche Krakau
Festival des Deutschen Films London
German Films Go North Kopenhagen
Festival des Deutschen Films St. Petersburg
Festival des Deutschen Films Moskau
German Films Go North Stockholm
Landshuter Kurfilmfestival
Festival International du Court-Métrage, Lilles (Frankreich)
Kultursonntag des Kölner Stadtanzeiger
Festivalforum des Bundesverband Junge Filmszene Wiesbaden
Capalbio Cinema Italy
Short Cuts Cologne
Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival
Kölner Filmhaus (Vorfilm)
Filmschauplätze NRW (Vorfilm)

CLIENTS AND PARTNERS
Associated Press Television News (AP)
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt  (DLR)
University Of Cologne
Universität Stuttgart
NEWCAST
Mellanox Technologies
Impress Surfaces
Hascher Jehle Architekten
Stiftung Mercator
RuhrFutur
Meyerthole Siems Kohlruss
VM4K
Kölner Studentenwerk
Landessportbund NRW