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.