Şeyhmus Altun was born in Diyarbakır in 1988. He graduated from Istanbul Bilgi University’s Cinema-Television Department in 2011. He started his Master’s Degree at the same university in 2016. After working in various positions at Dinamo Istanbul Film Production Company, where he has been working since 2009, he transferred to Mental Film, of which he was one of the founders, in 2018.
He is still actively working as a commercial director and has collaborated with brands such as P&G, Unilever, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, Ülker and Arçelik for national and international advertising campaigns.The commercials he directed received awards from prestigious festivals such as Kristal Elma, Effie and Felis. He has participated in many national and international film festivals and received awards with his short films since 2017. His last short film, “All Lights We Can’t See” (2020), screened in many festivals and received various awards from Turkey, Russia, Italy, and Canada.
Altun's first feature film will be Memento Non Mori, receiving support as the First Feature-Length Fiction Film from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey. As a first-time filmmaker, his vision in cinema is to explore innovative ways of storytelling, particularly focusing on the underrepresented narratives of women, emphasizing the power of showing rather than telling and fostering authenticity and sincerity in the narrative, while also pushing the boundaries of traditional genres by seamlessly merging fiction and reality to blur the lines between the two.