Emre is an award-winning writer, director, and producer of both fiction and nonfiction content, based in Los Angeles for the last 25 years. Originally hailing from the vibrant European side of Istanbul, Turkey, with a background in theater acting and photojournalism, his work has been featured in numerous international film festivals, garnering several prestigious awards.

As a UCLA Film School student, Emre co-directed, photographed, and edited The Last Musketeer, a micro-budget feature film about a family grappling with alcoholism. The film won the Audience Award at the Riverside International Film Festival.

His latest fiction film, Winter in LA, which he wrote and directed, explores themes of identity, immigration, and love through the lens of a multicultural couple in Los Angeles. It won the Best Feature Film Award and was nominated for Best Director at the Los Angeles Asian Film Festival.

His latest documentary, Life, As It Happens, delves into medium specificity and various approaches to photographic practice. It was showcased at the prestigious IDFA/DFS in Amsterdam in 2023 and is distributed by NETA, with a scheduled PBS broadcast in 2025.

Emre studied film and TV production at UCLA and screenwriting at USC, earning an MFA with Distinction from the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

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