About

Tarek Sursock is a Geneva based film director, producer & editor

 
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Les équipes de Tarek Sursock et Cédric Brunel ont fait un travail remarquable ! Ils ont créés notre vidéo de A à Z. Nous les recommandons pour toute créations de clip vidéos dans le domaine de la restauration. D’ailleurs une partie de la vidéo est en ligne sur notre site internet www.tartaresandco.ch
— Nicolas Perrenoud - Tartares&Co
Working with Tarek is a true experience ! I was able to complete many projects with him & still am. Extremely professional and a real perfectionist in everything he does. Highly recommended!
— Alexandre Mourreau - Future Photography http://www.futurephotography.ch/
As a producer and collaborator Tarek is creative, meticulous, and original..He’s got great ideas and is totally committed to the project at hand. He’s also got tremendous knowledge of the medium. I always like to have people around that know more about film than I do, and Tarek fits the bill.
— Adam Parr - Pigs Fly Media

— 2023 / 2024 —

I began working on a personal project. It is still a work in progress.

— 2022 / 2023 —

I was hired for 10 days as an extra to play a hotel guest in Roman Polanski’s movie The Palace.

— 2021 / 2022 —

I was commissioned to do a real-estate video and can not show any footage or images due to client confidentiality.

— 2019 / 2020 —

Directed with Future Photography and Edited the Cars&Coffee Geneva video

— 2018 / 2019 —

Directed Duality Dream film which was submitted to various festivals and soon Best Costumes award.

— 2017 —

Directed and Edited a web video for the jewelry store “Jahan” in Geneva

— 2016 —

Co-directed, executively produced and edited a web video commercial for the restaurant “Tartares&Co” in Geneva

— 2015 —

Directed a “Lamborghini Reventon Roadster” web video for a website named “Future Photography” based in Geneva.

Produced, directed and edited a web video commercial of the boutique store named “Addison” based in Geneva. It was a personal project and not a commissioned one.

— 2014 —

Produced, directed and edited a music video called “Under My Toes” for singer-song-writer Theresa Rhodes and her album “The Twisted Logic of Love”.

— 2013 —

Produced and executively produced a horror music video called “The Things I Dread” for singer-song-writer Theresa Rhodes for her album “The Twisted Logic of Love”. The production was shot in Virginia. The video was officially selected at the Sacramento Horror Film Festival (California) and the Miami Short Film Festival (Florida).

— 2012 —

Worked for a production company called “Pigs Fly Media” in Washington D.C. as a production assistant on a video commercial called “Word of Mom”. Also worked on editing footage for a web video called “Fundrise Change”.

— 2010 / 2012 —

Worked for “Melrose Cattle Production House” in Virginia, making real estate videos.

During that period, Tarek submitted his thesis short film “The Shoes Maketh The Man” to various film festivals across the US and Europe and won five film awards. In the following year he submitted another short film called “Insomniac” to some other festivals and took home three more awards.

— 2009 —

Tarek graduated with his Master’s degree from the New York Film Academy based in Los Angeles. After my graduation, he worked a few more months on my thesis short film, adding some finishing touches on image and sound as well as the packaging, as he felt this was needed before any submissions could be made to film festivals.