Mumin Baris – Producer/Director Mumin Baris is born in Kircaali/Bulgaria. Due to political reasons he and his family had to immigrate to Istanbul while he was 7 years old. He lived in Istanbul for 17 years, studied environmental engineering in Istanbul Technical University. Then he got accepted to the film school FAMU in Prague. After studying film directing there, he studied MA Film Studies in King’s College London. Currently, he’s a PhD candidate in “artistic-theoretical” film studies at Filmuniversitat Babelsberg Konrad Wolf and works as a lecturer at Akdeniz University. Kemal Onur Karakuş – Producer After finishing his masters on Sustainable Energy in KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, Onur Karakus moved to Antalya. As a film enthusiast, who has worked in many film festivals as jury, he started working as a line producer two years ago. His latest short film, Jade Rain has been screened worldwide and got several awards. Since two years, he works as a producer in Layla Film. Volkan Durmuş – Director/DoP Volkan Durmuş was born in 1988, in Tire, İzmir. He studied in Tire Kutsan Anatolian Highschool. Meanwhile he grew an interest in music and photography. The awards that he won from the photography competitions throughout his highschool education inspired him to stick at photography. He studied Chemistry and graduated from Isparta Süleyman Demirel University. At the same time he studied Radio and Television programming in Anadolu University. Mert Harmandar Mert Harmandar is a Turkish documentary director and editor, based in Istanbul. He is an alumnus of Saint Joseph French High School. He started majoring in economics at Koc University. Soon after he decided to continue his education into film and transferred to Fine Arts Faculty of Akdeniz University. He took part in an exchange program at University of Castilla La-Mancha in Spain. Mert has a working experience as a film editor in “140journos” and currently works in Layla Film since 2019.
