Melisa Kurtay 1st AD

Melisa is an experienced 1st Assistant Director working across film and high-end television. Her credits span period drama, large crowd sequences, action and stunt work, SFX and VFX units, comedy, drama, music-led projects, documentaries and productions involving animals and children. She has worked on projects ranging from large-scale studio blockbusters to independent films, both in the UK and internationally across Europe, the US and Asia, bringing a calm, adaptable approach to complex shoots in varied production environments

TV

ERASED: THE COLOUR OF VICTORY - HEROES OF WW2 
4 Episodes 
1st AD 
October Films / Green Door Productions for National Geographic | Directed by Adeyemi Michael
Produced and narrated by Idris Elba
CHAMPION
2 Episodes 
1st AD
BBC / Netflix | Directed by Adeyemi Michael
Produced by Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor
DEATH TO 2021 
Film for TV 
1st AD
Broke and Bones / Netflix | Directed by Jack Clough
Produced by Jay Patumanoan, Hazel Rose & Simon Winkler
THE BASTARD SON & THE DEVIL HIMSELF 1st AD
Imaginarium Productions for Netflix | Directed by Colm McCarthy
Produced by Steve Clark-Hall & Adrian Sturges
THE GREAT
Season 2 | Episode 1
1st AD
Hulu | Directed by Colin Bucksey
Produced by Tony McNamara & Dean O'Toole
TED LASSO 1st AD | Main Unit Cover
Shoe Bucket Ltd | Directed by Declan Lowney
THE SPANISH PRINCESS 1st AD | Action Unit
New Pictures | Directed by Chanya Button
CALL THE MIDWIFE 1st AD | Main Unit Cover
Neal Street Productions | Directed by David O'Neil
BULLETPROOF 1st AD | Pickup Unit
Vertigo Films | Directed by Diarmuid Goggins
MADE IN HEAVEN 1st AD
Amazon Prime | Directed by Zoya Akhtar
MORD KOMMISSION ISTANBUL
Episodes 10 - 14, Episode 19
1st AD
Ziegler Film | Directed by Thorsten Schmidt, Thomas Jauch & Marc Brummund
GOURMET WARS 1st AD
Karma Films | Directed by Lucio Pellegrino
SALVE JORGE 1st AD
Rede Globo | Directed by Marcos Schechtman

Feature Films

DOG AND BULL  1st AD 
Blackwater Pictures | Directed by James Marquand
Produced by Tiernan Hanby & Kevin Harvey
Featuring Malcolm McDowell & Alex Hassell
WHITE  1st AD 
Blackwater Pictures | Directed by Steve Waddington
Produced by Antoine Dixon-Bellot, Tiernan Hanby, Kevin Harvey, Krystian Kozlowski & Matthew Whyte
A VIOLENT MAN 1st AD
Ascendant Films | Directed by Ross McCall
Produced by Stefan D'Bart, Hester Ruoff & Bart Ruspoli
THE PROTÉGÉ 1st AD | Pickup Unit
Millenium Films | Directed by Martin Campbell
Produced by Various
THE SWIMMERS
Test Scenes
1st AD
Working Title | Directed by Sally El Husseini
Produced by Tim Bevan, Tim Cole, Eric Fellner & Ali Jaafar
BARE 1st AD
Raindog Films | Directed by Lorna Tucker
Produced by Trish D Chetty & Ged Doherty
CHARLIE'S ANGELS 1st AD | Main Unit | Turkey
Sony Pictures Entertainment | Directed by Elizabeth Banks
Produced by Various
THE PROTECTOR 1st AD
Passionflix | Directed by Tosca Musk
Produced by Martyn Gretton & Andrew Prendergast
THE JOURNEY 1st AD
RSA Films / AZ Films | Directed by Ridley Scott
INFERNO 1st AD | Turkey
Sony Pictures Colombia | Directed by Ron Howard
Produced by Brian Grazer & Ron Howard
DJAM 1st AD
Princes Production | Directed by Tony Gatlif
THE SCAM 1st AD
Excel Entertainment | Directed by Reema Kagti
THE WATER DIVINER 1st AD | Main Unit | Turkey
Ratpac Entertainment | Directed by Russell Crowe
Produced by Troy Lum, Andrew Mason & Keith Rodger
ONE NIGHT IN ISTANBUL 1st AD 
Hopscotch Features / Stray Dog Films | Directed by James Marquand
Produced by Nicky Allt, Krystian Kozlowski & Mathew Whyte
SKYFALL 2nd AD | Main Unit | Turkey
Eon Productions | Directed by Sam Mendes
Produced by Barbara Broccoli & Michael G. Wilson
TAKEN 2 1st AD
Europacorp | Directed by Olivier Megaton
Produced by Luc Besson
THE BONNARD AFFAIR 1st AD
Karma Films | Directed by Anna Maria Panzera

Documentaries

BEHIND THE FORCE 1st AD
Behind the Force Inc | Directed by Roger Christian

Commercials

NIKE 1st AD
World Apart | Directed by Arnaud Deroudhille
APPLE INC - MADE IN LDN 1st AD
Smuggler | Directed by Fenn O'Meally
MARS INCORPORATED 1st AD
Daily Lunge | Directed by Jess Dowse
CLEAR SHAMPOO Line Producer
CPS Productions | Directed by Ahmet Uygun
KNORR Line Producer
CPS Productions | Directed by Oussama Oussidhoum
G20 ANTALYA - WORLD SUMMIT FILM Line Producer
CPS Productions | Directed by Bertan Basaran
FOX TV 1st AD
Red Bee Creative | Directed by Matt Losasso
PERSIL 1st AD
Academy Films | Directed by Marcus Soderlund
PROSPECT (MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT) 1st AD
Mida/Seers | Directed by Roger Christian
ZEN DIAMOND 1st AD
Edcommercials | Directed by Paul Vos
SINPAS 1st AD
Creavidi | Directed by Levent Semerci
MITSUBISHI 1st AD
Karma Films | Directed by Engin Yalci
ADIDAS 1st AD
Park Production | Directed by Fritz Flieder
COCA-COLA 2nd AD
Motion Films | Directed by Charles Richards
ESTRELLA 1st AD
Interfilm | Directed by Bill Fertik
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