Ezel Akay
- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Ezel Akay was born in 1961. He studied engineering at Bosphorus
University, and theatre arts at Villanova University. He took part in
many theatre productions as an actor and director before entering film
production as a founding partner of IFR, where he was the director of
more than 900 commercials. In 1996, he produced Dervis Zaim's feature
film debut, "Somersault in a Coffin." The film won the highest number
of international awards ever received by a Turkish film. Following this
film, he was the executive producer of Yesim Ustaoglu's "Journey to the
Sun", which also won many awards at international festivals including
the prestigious Berlin Film Festival.
