Mustafa Presheva

Born on 11.October 1961 in Mitrovica, Kosovo. During his High School days he played a guitar in a local R&R alternative band - named "The Puppies". Always wanted to be a writer or an actor, he studied Machinery in Belgrade Technic University. Leaving that studies in 1982, he reached his temper being received by Belgrade Film Academy in the fall of the same year. Since 1983, he worked mostly as an editor, and also as an actor and director assistant. In 1986 he received "Golden Medal for Best Editing" on Belgrade Short Film And Documentary festival for the short film Dying Woods. In 1989 he was acknowledged as an Editor of The Year on Pula Film Festival, where he received "Golden Arena for Best Editing" for the feature The Fall Of Rock And Roll. In 1992, love affairs and the braking Civil War in ex Yugoslavia made him settle to Istanbul, Turkey, where he continued his work. In 1996 he was acclaimed as an Editor of the Year on Antalya Film Festival, and received "Golden Oragne for Best Editing" for the feature "Tabutta Rovesata" (Somersault in The Coffin). Also worked as an actor in several commercials, among which "The Founding" -commercial that celebrates establishing of the First Turkish Business Bank. Presheva played Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey.