Who We Are

Named for the word “or”

Ya da is Turkish for or — because when it comes to production, there has always been the established way. We were founded to be the alternative.

Ya Da Film was founded in March 2011 in İstanbul to realize film productions across television, video and digital — built on a foundation of roughly 25 years of production experience. Before anything else, we assembled our director team: young, dynamic and promising directors, backed by a crew the market already knew well.

Suat Küçükaydın, founder of Ya Da Film, has worked in production since 1992 — commercials, feature films, publicity films, music videos and documentaries, for clients including Akbank, Arçelik, Turkish Airlines, Türk Telekom, Nescafé, Kotex, Knorr, Algida and Sony Ericsson.

Ya Da Film was not founded to become just another company in a crowded production sector. The market is now the whole world, the audience is all human beings, and quality standards are universal rather than local. A production team set up in Turkey — or anywhere — may be composed of people from seventy nations. We have realized productions in Congo, Tokyo, Brazil, South Africa and Sudan, and won awards doing it.

Working at that level demands a higher sensitivity, a superior sense of punctuality and efficiency, and a sharper economic point of view. That's why we say: get your production service from an old structure — ya da (or) …

2011Founded in İstanbul
72Films in the archive
5Continents shot on
20+International awards & selections