BIOGRAPHY

Born on October 5, 1986 in Macon, France, Burak Akyol spent his childhood in the area of Lyon. In his secondary education period, he moved to Turkey along with his family and completed his high school education in Ankara. In 2008, he graduated from the Department of Cinema Television, European University of Lefke. After his university education, he studied cinema at La Fémis in France for 1 year.

In the year he graduated from La Fémis, he stepped into the film industry with PANA Film, working as an assistant editor in Turkey. He then served as an assistant director in several production companies. In 2014, he started directing in the series “Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu” (Valley of The Wolves Ambush). After his directing experience in the movie “Yarım Kalan” (Unfinished), he switched to the projects that he wrote and directed.

He worked as the scriptwriter of the feature film “Paris’te Çarşamba” (Wednesday in Paris). The movie “Meteler” is Burak Akyol’s first full-length feature film in which he worked both as a scriptwriter and a director. The movie “Meteler” has the vision date of April 19, 2019.

Following this action film, Burak Akyol shot the black-comedy type film “Enif”, in which he was the scriptwriter and the director as well.