Atlanta Film Production is the successor to Çan Film, a production company founded 25 years ago. Besides taking on various commercial visual projects, the company has so far produced 10 documentaries by Mehmet Eryılmaz, in addition to three dramatic documentaries and two full-length fiction films.

Mehmet Eryılmaz

Mehmet Eryılmaz graduated from the Radio & Television Department of Marmara University and went on to study at the Film & Television Department of Mimar Sinan University. He then began to write and direct his own short, experimental and documentary films.
Eryılmaz has earned recognition for his cultural films, such as Traditional Turkish Musicians, as well as for his documentaries, The Songs of Nazım Hikmet and Bedr: A Full Moon in Film (Tuncel Kurtiz). He made his first fiction feature, A Fairground Attraction, in 2008, following this up in 2015 with The Visitor. He has also served as a jury member at many festivals, as well as for the Turkish Ministry of Culture’s Film Funding Committee. He has edited and published books on cinema, including Tarkovsky’s Memoirs and Conversations with Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

He has won over 25 awards for his films, including the FIPRESCI prize at the Montreal World Film Festival. Over the years, he trained hundreds of film students and supported their projects both technically and physically at the script and editing stages. Through the online script doctoring website he set up with leading Turkish screenwriter, Gülden Çakır (www.senaryografi.com).

His complete filmography can be found in the Films section.

Vedide Kaymak

Following a degree in political science, journalism and cinema at Communication Faculty of Ankara University, Vedide Kaymak worked in a variety of Turkish media organisations before making the move to London and beginning a career in the cinema industry. Upon arrival in London, she assumed various arts and culture roles, including promoting Turkish culture in the UK, programming for MTV’s Turkish channel, and co-producing short films. However it was in her work at the RIO Cinema developing the London Turkish Film Festival that her decision to move to London and to follow a career in cinema was realised.

After distributing and promoting over 50 Turkish Film titles in the UK and directing the London Turkish Film Festival for more than 20 years, she has now begun working with Atlanta Film Production as a producer.