Born in Istanbul in 1981. Yoel Meranda studied Industrial Engineering at Northwestern University, then moved to New York to work at the Film-makers’ Cooperative. In 2006, he worked at the distribution company Chantier Films and at the FilmClub Web-TV channels. In the meantime, he freelanced as a documentary producer at Böcek Yapım production company and as line-producer in music videos. He co-founded Kamara Film in 2011. He won the Pack & Pitch Award at the 18th Sarajevo Film Festival with Theron Patterson’s feature project Everything is OK. Yoel’s experimental videos have screened at Toronto, Edinburgh, Thessaloniki and Istanbul international film festivals.
(november 2012)
