Bilge Ebiri is a filmmaker and critic.

After graduation, Ebiri worked on numerous features in a variety of positions – including as a director’s assistant on Oscar-winning Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov’s epic runaway production, The Barber of Siberia. In 2003, following a stint as senior editor in an office job at Yahoo Internet Life magazine during the IT industry heyday and meltdown, he made his first feature, a micro-budget office comedy thriller entitled New Guy, which played at film festivals across the world and received a theatrical release in New York. It is currently distributed on DVD by Vanguard Cinema, and has garnered glowing reviews in Variety, The New York Times, Time Out, The Daily Telegraph, and numerous other publications along the way.

Currently, Ebiri is at work on a new feature to be produced in early 2009.

Ebiri also publishes extensively about film in magazines and online outlets.  He is a regular contributor to New York Magazine, Nerve.com, and Bookforum; for Bookforum he writes the regular "Moviegoer" column. He has also written for outlets as diverse as Entertainment Weekly, Popular Science, and Citysearch, and is a well-respected, exceedingly civil presence in online film discussion groups.

 

2006 - Purse Snatcher

2003 - New Guy

1996 - Infernal Racket

1995 - Bad Neighborhood

1993 - Jump Cut