Murat Vargelci, born in Turkey and residing in New York City, worked as an
international sales engineer. However, his long-term passion for writing gradually
led him to script writing and then to film-making.
He won a first prize award in Toronto, Canada, in 2020 with his short script named
“The Poem”. A story of two lonely souls in a big city, finding each other through the
exchanges they write on a poster which becomes a beautiful poem. It was
produced in Canada the following year with the same name and won several awards.
Murat made his first short movie “Desolate” in 2021 and received two Semi-finalist
awards from Madrid Film Awards Festival and ARFF Berlin Film Festival and the
movie was selected to festivals all around the world.
He is currently attending the MFA in Film program at the City College of New York
and at the same time working on his debut feature film.