Serhat Arvas (born 2 June 1983) is a Turkish action movie

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

and head of a

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stunt team.

Biography

Arvas was born in

Istanbul Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ...

on 2 June 1983. He completed his primary and high school education in

Fatih Fatih () is a district of and a municipality (''belediye'') in Istanbul, Turkey, and home to almost all of the provincial authorities (including the governor's office, police headquarters, metropolitan municipality and tax office) but not the co ...

(one of the central districts of Istanbul). He was attracted by the eastern martial arts at the age of 8 just after the movies he had watched. In the beginning his training was not going beyond trying freestyle with his friends but when he was 10 he decided to improve himself on a discipline. He'd improved himself in 7 different martial art disciplines including Full-Contact,

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, wushu and

aikido Aikido ( , , , ) is a modern Japanese martial art that is split into many different styles, including Iwama Ryu, Iwama Shin Shin Aiki Shuren Kai, Shodokan Aikido, Yoshinkan, Renshinkai, Aikikai and Ki Aikido. Aikido is now practiced in around 1 ...

. With the ability and passion to martial arts he started educating senior classes at a very young age. In 2001 he founded "Yıldırım Stunt Team". The team made a short film named ''Eagles Claw''. Furthermore, to accomplish his dream of making Turkish action films by combining cinema with eastern martial arts, Arvas took acting and diction lessons at Müjdat Gezen Acting School in 2002, then continued his education at İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality Performance Arts Center. In 2003 Yıldırım Stunt Team was disbanded. Arvas took on a side role in the well-known Turkish serial called ''Kurtlar Vadisi'' in 2004. As intending to give fight scenes a more professional look in his movies, he formed "Serhat Arvas Stunt Team" in late 2004. He also continued his studies on arranging fight scenes, fight choreographies, stunting, camera angles and action in cinema. Team’s first short feature project called ''Fists of Vengeance'' highly drew public attention. Lately, they are having the proud of their feature film named ''Fearless Tiger'' whose screenplay belongs to Arvas and also directed by himself.

Filmography

*2002 – short film (Action) : "Eagles Claw" – actor and director *2003 – short film (Action) : "One day in Istanbul" – actor *2004 – short film (Action) : "Fists of Vengeance" – actor and director *2004 – TV-series (in Turkey): "Valley of the Wolves" (Kurtlar vadisi) – accessory actor *2005 – long film (Action) : "Fearless Tiger" (Korkusuz kaplan) – actor, director, martial arts and action choreographer *2006 – short film (Horror) : "Nightmare in Blood" – actor and director *2006 – short film (Horror) : "Neurotic" – director *2006 – short film (Horror) : "Nemesis" – director *2007 – TV series ( Advertorial) : "Akbank-axess cart" – actor *2008 – "Mr.KILINK" – actor *2008 – "DELI DUMRUL" – actor *2008 – "TARGET:5" – actor and director

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