Kadir Balci was born in 1970 in Belgium, in the historical town of Ghent. He studied film directing at Ghent Academy of Fine Arts and followed a two-year course in the United Kingdom at the Bournemouth Film School. After working in the UK as an assistant director he returned to Belgium to work on different film projects for museums, companies, musicians and television. In 2010 Kadir wrote and directed his first feature TURQUAZE which was a box office hit. For his second feature MARRY ME, he worked with screenwriter Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem and producer Dries Phlypo from A Private View. At the beginning of 2015 MARRY ME was released in Belgian theatres. Recently he directed the first episodes of a new television series, AMIGOS, set to be released in March 2017.
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