Director

Karzan Kardozi

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Directed movies: 8Directed series: 0All crew credits: 10

TMDB ID: 2966619

IMDb ID: nm6748553

Known for: Directing

Place of birth: Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan region, Iraq

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2007 - 2026

Years active: 20

Wikidata: Q130295596

Also known as

کارزان کاردۆزی

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Director (7)Assistant Director (1)Cinematography (1)Sound Designer (1)

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Biography

Karzan Kardozi was born in Sulaimani, Kurdistan and left with his family in 1999, they settled in Nashville, US, where Karzan pursued his passion for film directing. He graduated from Watkins College of Art, Design & Film with a degree in Film Directing and Cinematography. In 2015, he went back to Kurdistan to make a low budget documentary film titled "I Want to Live" about the lives of Kurdish refugees from Syria. In 2023, he wrote, produced, and directed "Where is Gilgamesh?", a film noir based on the Epic of Gilgamesh. Independently produced with a small budget and only seven crew members, the film was shot on location in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Also a writer, Kardozi wrote a series of books in Kurdish titled "100 Years of Cinema, 100 Directors," that chronicle the history of cinema.

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