ART DIRECTOR

Zeynep Atakan

Zeynep Atakan, graduated from the Department of Film and Television at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Marmara University. From 1986 to 1999, she worked in various roles in the television advertisement industry and specialized as a producer.

In 2010, Atakan was awarded the European Film Academy’s Best European Co-Producer award. The same year, she launched the Yapımlab Workshops, with which she aims to share her experience and knowledge as a producer with young filmmakers.

In 2014-2022 she has been the Vice President of EWA, the European Women’s Audiovisual Network, which works towards equal opportunities for women working in the audiovisual industries in Europe and around the world and she is currently an Honorary Member of it.

In 2014, Atakan was awarded the Uçan Süpürge Bilge Olgaç Achievement Award, and her production Winter Sleep won the Palme d’Or at the 67th Cannes Film Festival, the festival’s most prestigious award.

Also in 2014, Zeynep Atakan started the Antalya Film Forum, a co-production and project development market organized as part of the International Antalya Film Festival and was its director until 2018.

Atakan, also organizes the Turkey section of the Young Audience Award, a project by the European Film Academy.

She has been the art director of the Sabancı Foundation Short Film Platform since 2016.

Atakan is a member of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science (AMPAS), European Film Academy and the Asia Pacific Screen Academy.

Since 2024, she has been producing and presenting the podcast/videocast series Neden Filmimi Çekemiyorum? where she speaks to some of today’s prominent filmmakers on film production and content creation.

FILMOGRAPHY

2026 Man vs. Flock, Director: Tamara Kotevska
2026 Supporting Role, Director: Ana Urudzhade
2022 Hilal, Feza and Other Planets, Director: Kutluğ Ataman
2021 Solo Mode – Short Film – Director: Tamara Kotevska
2019 It Must Be Heaven, Director: Elia Suleiman (as a coproducer)
2018 The Wild Pear Tree, Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
2014 Winter Sleep, Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
2011 Once Upon A Time in Anatolia, Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
2008 Three Monkeys, Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
2006 Climates, Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
2002 Innowhereland, Director: Tayfun Pirselimoğlu
1999 Lola+Bilidikid, Director: Kutluğ Ataman