ELIF SAVAS FELSEN (Director, Editor) was born in Istanbul in 1970. After working in Turkey as an opera singer, she moved to the United States in 1994, where she also sang and won several opera competitions.  With a desire to explore different fields, she also began working, in 1996, on a variety of independent film productions in NYC.  It was there, with the help of some kind and generous cinematographers, that she learned her craft, quickly moving up the ranks to become cameraman and then cinematographer. COUP is her debut film as director.

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BRIAN FELSEN (Producer, Editor) was born in Los Angeles in 1968.  He played classical piano as a competitor until receiving degrees at the Wharton School of Business and the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania.  After college, he founded and ran an annual international music festival, the Philadelphia Music Conference.  Upon the sale of the business, he attended the Mannes School of Music and studied composition, and went on to create classical music, plays, films, and art exhibitions about consciousness and topics in philosophy of mind.  While living in Turkey, he composed his first opera and made the film COUP.

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