Ibo Karatay

Ibrahim (aka Ibo) Karatay is a Dutch-Turkish director, scriptwriter and producer. Ibo was born in 1979 in Istanbul, Turkey. When he was 14 years old his parents have suddenly decided to establish the family in The Netherlands to reunite with his immigrant worker father. After purchasing his bachelor's degree in Public Administration in the city of The Hague he worked as project manager for several years. He then started the pre-master Film and Television Studies at The Utrecht University focusing mainly on film narratology and dramaturgy. During his study he also started working on film sets to gain set experience.Ibo is the co-founder of Alchemic Film. Alchemic Film's first productions have been selected for the Cannes, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and International Film Festival Rotterdam. Ibrahim has co-produced _Nasir (2020)_ (qv) by 'Arun Karthick' (qv). The film had its world premiere in the Tiger 'Awards' (qv) competition of IFFR in 2020 and won NetPac award. It has also been selected for both New Directors New Films and Mumbai Film Festival (2020). Ibrahim is the Executive Producer for 'Özcan Alper' (qv)'s new crime thriller Black Night, starring 'Berkay Ates' (qv), 'Taner Birsel' (qv) and 'Sibel Kekilli' (qv)._Shadow of Violence (2020)_ (qv) is his debut as a director/writer and it is the first part of a trilogy. Shadow of Violence had its world premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam. It has been selected amongst others for Golden Calf competition and best debut film competition at he Netherlands Film Festival in 2020. The film won best film price at Roots Film Festival.::Anonymous