Casting Services

Here is what that looks like on the ground. We run casting for global shoots filming in Turkey, from principal roles through day players, featured extras and large crowd scenes. Our team works with set up Istanbul and Ankara casting directors, manages self-tape and in-person sessions, and handles the chemistry reads, callbacks and director sessions that lock a cast. We source across the range — film-trained actors, the recognisable stars of Turkish television series, comedians, presenters and non-pro faces for documentary-style work — and we brief talent and agents clearly on schedule, usage and travel. Contracts, work eligibility for foreign cast and the planning of minors and their guardians are all managed alongside, and we keep talent releases and usage terms aligned with how the footage will ultimately be distributed.

Here is how the picture comes together. Turkey's screen-acting depth is top. The 'dizi' industry — the engine behind the country being the world's second-largest TV-series exporter — has produced a generation of actors whose series are followed across the Middle East, the Balkans and Latin America, giving shoots access to performers with genuine global recognition. The arthouse tradition runs just as deep: Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep took the Palme d'Or in 2014, Yılmaz Güney's Yol won it in 1982, Semih Kaplanoğlu's Honey took the Golden Bear in 2010, and Haluk Bilginer is a Global Emmy winner. We tap this ecosystem — and the showcases of the Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival. The Istanbul Film Festival — to present global shoots with a credible, well-prepared shortlist.