BIOGRAPHY of the DIRECTOR-PRODUCER ATALAY TAŞDİKEN
Born in 1964 in Beyşehir, Konya, a district of central Anatolia, Atalay Taşdiken graduated from Konya’s Selçuk University with a teacher training degree in physics. In 1991, after finishing military service, he began working in advertising, learning a broad range of skills by turns as a dark room technician, media representative, copywriter and creative director. Over the next ten years, he went on to direct over 300 commercials and serve as creative director on some 30 product campaigns. Atalay Taşdiken awarded The Eminent Services Prize of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) in 2009.
In between times, he wrote and directed Be?Numaral?Kamp (Camp Number Five), a fiction film for television that was set up as a Turkish-Russian-Uzbek co-production. And three years later, in 1996, he made the documentary Güne?Bile Zor Ayrılır Bu Şehirden (Even the Sun Is Loath To Leave), a short piece about his hometown Beyşehir, a place of legendary sunsets.
Atalay Taşdiken is a member of “Academy of Asia Pasific Screen Awards?
Mommo (The Bogeyman) is his first full-length feature film.
Mommo had its world premiere in the Generation section of Berlinale 2009.
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