Casting Directors

Here is how the picture comes together. We supply casting directors who source on-screen talent for features, commercials, dizi series and global co-shoots in Turkey. Our team places casting pros who run breakdowns, self-tape rounds and in-person sessions out of Istanbul casting studios, manage agent relationships across the city's talent agencies, and handle the contracting, scheduling and on-set release of performers. Because so much production in the country is episodic, the casting directors we engage are as well comfortable filling a single commercial role or staffing the recurring ensemble and day-player needs of a long-running series. They advise on the practicalities that matter to foreign shoots — performer openings against the dizi shooting calendar, dialect and language coverage, and the forms for engaging both Turkish and visiting cast.

Here is what we have to work with. Turkey's actor pool is one of the most worldwide recognised in the region, built by the 'dizi' export industry that has carried Turkish series across the Middle East, the Balkans and Latin America. The star system has produced performers with vast followings. Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ, Beren Saat, Tuba Büyüküstün, Halit Ergenç, Engin Akyürek and Çağatay Ulusoy among them — while Haluk Bilginer won a Global Emmy for the series 'Şahsiyet'. The classic Yeşilçam era gave the country enduring icons such as Türkan Şoray and Kemal Sunal. That heritage still shapes a culture where screen acting is a mainstream profession. University drama programmes and Istanbul's busy theatre scene keep the supporting and character ranks deep, so casting directors can field real faces for everything from period epics to today's thrillers.