Discover Top Freelancers in Istanbul, Turkey

15 years of international experience in offline and online content production. Special focus on video storytelling, branded video content and live broadcast. Managed countless projects from concept phase to final delivery, ensuring the final products are published with the best new media strategies. I enjoy working for international productions as a freelance local producer. I am proud to have worked on the Istanbul episode of Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown, which aired on CNN International in November 2016. It was a great honor which came after also producing Mr. Bourdain’s previous format, No Reservations in 2009. I also had the opportunity to appear in front of camera to eat, drink and chat with Mr. Bourdain in both shows.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Fixer
• Production Company
• Drone Operator
• Reporter / Journalist
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Creative Director
• Video Editor - News
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Translator
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Production Assistant
• Full-Service Live Production
• Immersive/Spatial Video Capture

I was born in Istanbul in 1990. In 2008 I started working in film industry as a sound assistant. In 2012 I directed the my first short film "Assassination of Silence" with Murat Onur Öner. In the summer of 2013 I directed short film named "Bekir" . These short films were shown at many national and international festivals. In early 2016, I founded the company named POVR which produces VR Video Production and mobile VR applications. I am currently working at POVR as VR Director and on the otherhand I'm working at Zeplin Sound as Sound Technician. In 2017 I started to work as line producer in Yedi Film which produces movie and commercial. In 2018 summer, I created a community called 'Mevzu' which we produced short documentaries and videos. I'm executive manager of Mevzu.

• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Creative Director
• Sound Mixer
• Product Photographer
• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Production Company
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Post-Production Manager
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Sound Designer
• Immersive/Spatial Video Capture
• Fixer
• VR / AR

Murat is an Istanbul-based journalist and filmmaker. He has a BA from Yale University and an MS from Columbia Journalism School. As a CNN Turk reporter/producer, he made documentaries on the children of Southeastern Turkey, the Maidan uprising in Ukraine and the Turkish defense industry. Murat's first independent documentary was a 30-minute short called "The Waiting." The film is about the effects of incarceration on families left behind. After working at Rain Media for Frontline and Fareed Zakaria GPS at CNN’s New York bureau, he won a grant from Davis Projects for Peace to make a documentary in Southeastern Turkey. "A Report Card for Democracy" tells the story of a family destroyed by political polarization.

• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Reporter / Journalist
• Commercial DP
• Production Company
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Translator
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Commercial
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist

After completing my degree in Film Studies at the university, I pursued another degree in Philosophy. For the last fifteen years, I have worked across various domains of the film industry. I spent a decade as an assistant director in the television and advertising industry. I specialize in directing documentaries that capture the essence of human stories. I also produce short films, documentaries, and public service advertisements, and have experience writing documentary scripts. For the last three years, I have been working on a script for a television series. I am available on certain days of the month in Vienna, Austria and Stuttgart, Germany, and I am currently open to working on projects in these cities."

• Creative Director
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Executive Producer
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Field Producer
• Copywriter
• Reporter / Journalist
• TV News Producer
• Drone Operator
• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Corporate Videographer
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Post-Production Manager
• Art Director

Özge Sebzeci is a photographer and journalist based in Istanbul, Turkey. Born next to the Bosphorus, Özge’s reporting and photography reveals a seldom-seen Turkey. Özge’s work, often combining documentary and art photography, caught the eye of the Magnum Foundation which awarded her a fellowship. She aims to explore underreported stories with a focus on gender and migration with an intimate approach. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Huffington Post, News Deeply, NRC Handelsblad, De Standaard, and VG, among others. Her master's thesis is about the ethics of long-term documentary photography. She is the recipient of the 2018 Marilyn Stafford Fotoreportage award. She is fluent in English, Turkish and French.

• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Field Producer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Fixer
• Production Assistant

Freelance multimedia journalist, filmmaker and designer with over 5 years of experience in various fields, and fluency in English, Russian and Turkish. Born and raised in Almaty, Kazakhstan, I moved to Istanbul, Turkey, in 2018 to pursue 3 Communications degrees: Communication Design, Journalism and Film & TV. From 2019 until now, I created various multimedia designs as a freelancer, and got nominated at GMK Design Awards; Reported news features from Turkey, Kazakhstan and Georgia; while also working as a photojournalist for these stories; Got published in: The Guardian, New Arab, TV Rain, Meduza and Fayn Studio; Was interviewed live as an expert journalist at TV Rain, commenting on Turkey's context on femicide rates and the femicide of Russian anti-war activist in Erzurum.

• TV News Producer
• Art Director
• Storyboard Artist
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Graphic Designer
• Illustrator
• Creative Director
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - News
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Event Photographer
• Executive Producer
• Field Producer
• Line Producer / On-Location
• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• Digital Content Creator
• Social Media Producer
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• On-Camera Talent
• Documentary DP
• Corporate Videographer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Reporter / Journalist
• Transcriber
• Translator
• Copywriter
• Animator / Visual Effects Artist
• Product Photographer

For 15 years, I have been producing professional photo and video content in Turkey and providing production services. Photography, which first started as a hobby in the photography club in higher education, has turned into a passion and professional career for me over time. In my photography life, which started with travel and nature photography, I developed myself with continuous training. Then I worked as a photography instructor for about 4 years. In this process, I gave photography lessons to hundreds of students in Turkey. Currently, I continue my photography life with many individual or corporate partners in Turkey in both photography and video. From time to time I organise events on video with Sony Turkey.

• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Corporate Videographer
• Immersive/Spatial Video Capture
• Event Photographer
• Fashion Photographer
• Landscape Photographer
• Portrait Photographer
• Product Photographer
• Post-Production Manager
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Graphic Designer
• On-Camera Talent

Correspondent and video journalist based in Istanbul. I have been working as a writer and broadcast journalist for over 15 years with some of the world’s leading media organisations, delivering creative, high quality audio, video and digital storytelling to diverse audiences across the globe. A multimedia and multi-platform journalist by nature; I write, shoot, produce, present and edit my own pieces. I have been nominated three times for the Reuters Video Journalist of the Year Award, winning it once for my coverage of the growth of Daesh in Iraq. Hostile environment training: 2011 & 2015. Refresher 2022. Gear: Sony A7siii, Adobe Premiere, professional radio equipment, iphone filming kit.

• Reporter / Journalist
• On-Air Reporter / Host
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Mobile Journalist / Livestreamer
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Audio Storyteller
• On-Camera Talent
• Video Editor - News
• Podcast Producer

I am a senior cameraman with 20 years of diverse experience, mostly in the field. I am specialized in conflict reporting. I have covered the Kosovo war in 2001, 2002 and 2004, the war in Syria and I have covered conflicts in Iraq. To expand my knowledge on conflict reporting I have attended the Hostile Environment Awareness Training. I have also attended the BBC School of Journalism. I have also covered the aftermath of Charlie Hebdo attack, Germanwings crash in France, a terrorist attack in Brussels and the 2016 coup attempt in Turkey. I have worked with several media outlets, such as the oldest commercial TV station in Bosnia and Herzegovina – Hayat TV, public broadcaster Federalna TV and the CNN’s exclusive affiliate for the Adria region – N1 TV.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Corporate Videographer

I was born in Ankara, Turkey in 1988. I studied "Graphic Design" for 2 years at Dokuz Eylul University and moved on to study "Film Design" in Yasar University and specialized on Cinematography. At the time I was a student, I started working as a PA for both international and local productions and then became an Assistant Camera for feature films and TV-Series. After working as a 1st AC for few years, I started my career as a cinematographer in 2018 and started working on commercials, music videos and documentaries. I'm still working as a cinematographer for film industry, and I'm always looking for new projects to feel excited working on.

• Commercial DP
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Colorist
• Video Editor - Documentary

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• Documentary DP
• Commercial DP
• Creative Director
• Drone Operator
• Grip
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Production Company
• Motion Graphics Designer
• Gaffer
• Fixer
• Field Producer
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Video Editor - News
• TV News Producer
• Production Assistant
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Colorist
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Corporate Videographer

I completed my BA in METU Industrial Design and MS in METU Media and Cultural Studies and started PhD in Bilkent Graphic Design. During my MA, I started to engage with video and documentaries. I went to Canada with a grant by Sauvé Foundation and worked as a research assistant at University McGill in 2004-2005. I worked as a montage director in İz TV (the first documentary channel in Turkey) and as the Middle East correspondent of American Independent Radio FSRN. I co-founded the first video-activist collective of Turkey -karahaber- with a couple of friends during my BA studies. I continue making videos and documentaries independently. I am a professional editor and DOP.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - News
• Fixer
• Translator
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Video Editor - Commercial

I have directed 10 short films and documentaries since 2006. I acted as a jury member in national and international film festivals like Sarajevo International Film Festival, Transilvania International Film Festival etc. I have directed the documentary, ‘Bird of Passage’ was in comtetition at Antalya Golden Orange and Kosovo Dokufest Film Festivals and short film ‘Vanished into Blue’ was awarded at Belgrad, Tangiers, Antalya, Adana etc, and 28 more festivals. In 2018, I wrote-directed my first feature film, ‘Road to the Moon’ was at '' Adana, İstanbul, Malatya Int. Film Festivals'' and got four awards.

• Production Company

I started my profession as a reporter. I worked as a editor and producer at CNNTURK for about 9 years. I worked in different kind of documentaries changing from a big variety such as sports and food culture as the script writer, editor and producer. I worked as the team leader in both the production and broadcasting of different kind of news programs as well as programs on travel, food and history for the NTV. I worked for responsible from creating, producing, editing and managing of all TV programs as a programme manager and program director for TV channels. Now I am working as a executive producer as a freelancer

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Production Company
• Senior Producer / Project Manager
• Production Coordinator / Crewing
• Reporter / Journalist
• Field Producer
• TV News Producer
• Executive Producer
• Senior Editor

I am a dedicated freelance photographer & videographer based in Istanbul who is particularly passionate about sport, events and documantary photography. As a cyclist myself, I’ve been travelling across Turkey and photographing cycling races. I am accredited with all the top race and event organisers including Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey . When covering races, I love shooting from remote locations and providing high-impact images that define the most remarkable moments of the organisation. I am also passionate about illustrating human interest stories, documentaries and in-depth stories on daily life.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Video Editor - Documentary
• Commercial DP
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist
• Fixer

Mehdi Shabani is an Iranian documentary filmmaker and journalist based in Istanbul. His documentaries, videos and essays have been published and broadcasted across various media including BBC, Deutsche Welle, Voice of America and Aasoo. His work focuses on underreported socio-political issues in the region, often drawing links between Turkey and its eastern neighbors including Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran. Mehdi's production company Entemtainment has produced six feature documentaries and dozens of multimedia stories as well as experimental shorts and music videos. His documentaries have mostly been broadcasted on the BBC and been selected in film festivals around the world.

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Documentary DP
• Production Company
• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Reporter / Journalist
• Creative Director
• Digital Content Creator

Throughout my career, I have taken on various editorial roles, developing both management and editorial skills. I have applied these skills to enhance company engagement and production, deepening my passion for production work. In my role as a fixer, I manag pre-production processes and address the local requirements and demands of Productions at hand. It includes obtaining permits, scouting locations, handling communications effectively, and most importantly, overseeing smooth on-site production flow. I aim to provide my fellow production crew members with the same fulfilling experience I have gained from each project I have been in.

• Fixer
• Production Assistant
• Field Producer
• Translator
• Production Company

Hi there, I am a skilled and creative video editor and with five years of experience in all aspects of video production. I am meticulously attentive to both the video and audio aspects of my work and am willing to keep on working at a project until my employer is satisfied with the product. I am just starting out on this website and am keen to establish myself as a trustworthy and freelancer that is easy to talk to. I do most of my work in Adobe Premiere as well as After Effects and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. If you have any questions or suggestions Thanks for reading! Mobile : 0090 x Email : x

• Motion Graphics Designer
• Video Editor - News
• Video Editor - Commercial
• Video Editor - Documentary
• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Corporate Videographer
• Sound Mixer
• Social Media Producer
• Senior Editor
• Editorial Photographer / Photojournalist

I have been working as a shoot and edit for news and documentary since 1993. I have been more than 70 countries around the world. Some of those; Kosovo war 1999, US elections 2000-2004-2008-2012-2016 , Afghanistan war 2001, 2nd Intifada 2000-2005, Russian elections 2000, Iraq war 2003, Syria war 2013-2023, Arafat interview 2004, Gaddafi interview 2009, financial crisis USA Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton interviews in 2008, Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 are some of them… Hundreds of news from different geographies. I have received many international awards, especially the International EMMY Winner 2023 and nomination 2018. Channels I work with; TRT World, Al Jazeera English…

• News Shooter / Video Journalist
• Video Editor - News
• Corporate Videographer
• Documentary DP
• HD Live Operator
• Drone Operator
• Commercial DP

I have graduated from Ankara University Radio, TV and Cinema, started my career as a production - director assistant at TRT Ankara television in 1995.I started working as a director in 1998 at TV 8, where I worked for 13 years and at D Productions for 2 year. I have directed all kinds of programs such as News, News Programs, Travel, Culture-Art, Competition, Music-Entertainment, Concert, Food, Live Daily Showa and similar programs. Many shows in which I took part received various awards.I have also worked as a director in major organizations such as beuty competitions and Award ceremonies . I work as a freelance director since 2012 .

• Non-Fiction Film Director
• Creative Director
• Full-Service Live Production
• Video Editor - Commercial