ART DIRECTOR

Zeynep Özbatur 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 actively worked in the advertisement industry and specialized as a producer.

In 2007, she started Zeynofilm.

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, and Yapımlab continues offering training/communication programs. Since 2014, Zeynep Atakan 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.

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 for its first 5 years.

Since 2016, she is the art director of the Sabancı Foundation Short Film Platform, which was launched by the Sabancı Foundation.

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

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

Filmography

2022 Hilal, Feza and Other Planets, Director: Kutluğ Ataman
2021 Solo Mode, Director: Tamara Kotevska
2019 It Must Be Heaven, Director: Elia Suleiman
2018 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 Pirselimoglu
1999 Lola+Bilidikid, Director: Kutluğ Ataman