Yasemin Şamdereli (born 15 July 1973 in
Dortmund
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,
West Germany
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) is a German
actress
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,
screenwriter
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and
film director
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. Her film ''
Almanya - Willkommen in Deutschland'' had its U.S. premiere at the
Berlin and Beyond Film Festival in
San Francisco
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on 20 October 2011.
Biography
Yasemin Şamdereli was born in
Dortmund
Dortmund (; ; ) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the List of cities in Germany by population, ninth-largest city in Germany. With a population of 614,495 inhabitants, it is the largest city ...
, West Germany on 15 July 1973, to a family of
Kurdish Zaza origin. She studied at the University of Television and Film in Munich from 1993 until 2000. From 1994 to 1998, she worked as a freelance collaborator for Bavaria-Film. Until 2002 she worked as a directing assistant to international cinema films, including the Jackie Chan films ''Jackie Chan is Nobody'' (1998) and ''Spy against Will'' (2001).
Career
In 2002 she directed the TV comedy ''Alles betürkt!''. She was the co-writer of the successful television show, ''Turkish for Beginners''. She also appeared as an actress in the short film ''Delicious'' in 2004. She was awarded the German Filmpreis in 2011 for her film, ''Almanya – Willkommen in Deutschland''.
Filmography
Actor
Director
Writer
References
External links
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1973 births
German film actresses
German women film directors
German people of Kurdish descent
Living people
Film people from Dortmund
Actresses from Dortmund
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