Ali Ata Akel is a film director born in Salzburg ('85) and raised in İstanbul.
He studied fine arts in Pera Güzel Sanatlar and graduated from İstanbul Bilgi University - VCD department in ’08. His education included a variety of tools for visual storytelling.
After, he moved to London to work as an Art Director in Tidal Media. Clients included Funktion-1, Hampstead Butcher, Fullfat Audio, and other established local British brands.
After a few years he returned to İstanbul to work as a motion graphics designer at Studio Triangle. Working with global agencies TBWA, Mccann Erickson, Alice Bbdo with clients such as Turkish Airlines, Coca-Cola, KFC etc.
In 2012 he begun directing, shooting, editing fashion films for Hakan Yıldırım to explore the moving image. From there on, he developed the production quality of his films directing music videos.
In 2014, studied in Prague Film School for a year to have a better understanding of filmmaking. Since then he’s back in İstanbul working as a commercial director. His clients include Pantene, Head & Shoulders, Bioderma, Vitra, Ülker…
His experience in post-production and production helps him to deploy variety of skills depending on the needs of the project. Has a deep understanding of creative production tools including Inferno, Flame, Smoke, Combustion, After Effects, Final Cut Pro and strong working knowledge of cameras, editing equipment, computers etc.
Has excellent ability to create tailor made solutions to clients needs. Is a creative thinker and problem solver with an ability to work with multiple tasks, priorities projects, communicate progress, deliver on time and present with confidence and work well under pressure and strong ability to lead the team in all manner.
Currently works as a freelancer and is fluent in English.