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Films are the last place
culture still holds
still. We build them
with the brands that
want to stay.

— A note from the studio Founded in Dubai in 2026. We make films and invite brands to co-author them — written into the work, not pasted on. A separate division handles standalone campaigns. Long-form, integrated, owned.
How we work Brand partnership
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01 / 07How we work

Product placement is dead.
Co-authorship is what comes next.

We are a film studio. The film comes first. Brands enter as co-authors — written into the world the film builds, never pasted on after. Sometimes the brand is the film. Separately, a campaigns division handles standalone advertising work.

I.

The film first.

Every project begins with a story we believe in. The film decides everything else — the world, the cast, the scale, the partners. Brands are invited to a story that already has its own gravity, not asked to invent one.

Anchor
II.

The brand, written in.

A brand joins as co-author, not a sponsor. It lives inside the world the film builds — the locations, the rituals, the objects, the people. Recognized by those who know it; discovered by those who don't. The opposite of a logo on the back of a chair.

Integration
III.

When the brand is the story.

Sometimes the brand carries a story large enough to become the film itself. A founder's rise. An origin worth a feature. We make those too — when the story is real enough to deserve the runtime.

Origin
IV.

Campaigns, on the side.

A separate advertising division for standalone brand work. Director-driven, end-to-end. Operates independently of the slate, to the same standard. When a brand needs a campaign rather than a film, it lives here.

Division
02 / 07The Model

One belief.
Three capabilities.

A film studio anchored by film, with a separate campaigns division and an in-house technical practice for what comes next.
I.

The attention economy has eaten the middle.

Why now
II.

Films are the last place culture still holds still.

What we believe
III.

We are a film studio first.

The centre of gravity
IV.

Brands as co-authors, not sponsors.

The integration model
V.

Sometimes the brand is the story.

Origin films
VI.

Technology is never the point.

Light & Volume
VII.

Campaigns, on the side.

A separate division
VIII.

We are not a branded-content shop.

What this isn't
IX.

Not for everyone. Not meant to be.

Who this is for
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03 / 07The studio

One belief,
three capabilities.

We are a film studio first. Around the slate we operate two capabilities that make the films more ambitious and that stand as serious work in their own right. Not parallel businesses — three ways the same idea reaches the world.

C / 01 — The anchor
Film

Branded partnership cinema and globally-scaled prestige history, made to last a generation. Every other thing we do ultimately answers to what is on screen.

See the slate
C / 02 — The practice
Light & Volume

The studio's AI and mixed-reality practice. LED volumes, virtual production, AI pipelines, volumetric capture, neural post — configured to the brief. A shot has to earn the volume.

Inside Light & Volume
C / 03 — The first door
Campaigns

A full-service, director-driven ad agency inside the studio. Brand films, short-form, out-of-home, digital launch, broadcast — end-to-end, at the tempo a marketing calendar runs on.

See Campaigns
04 / 07In development

On the
slate.

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N° 01Ad campaign · Prestige
asnaff.
In productionLaunching soon

Search. Find. Connect. A visual search engine launching out of Dubai and Istanbul. The studio's first campaign — film, light & volume, and campaigns moved on the same brief.
N° 02Feature · Biopic
A biopic of a phenomenon.
In conversationBy invitation

A feature film drawn from one of the decade's fastest cultural rises — a founder's story, already known to millions before a single frame is shot. In conversation with the principals.
Two titles on the slate · more when there is more See the case
05 / 07Who we build with

Not logos. Categories.
Seven sectors whose brands are
already behaving like stories.

Our partners come from industries that think in decades. Most find us through Campaigns first; a share of those relationships earn their way into Film.

S / 01
Luxury maisons

Houses whose archives already read as screenplays. We return them to film with the craft that built them.
S / 02
Automotive

An object that moves through landscape is already cinema. We write the road, not the ad.
S / 03
Hospitality

A brand that sells a night sells a room in someone's memory. We build the memory first.
S / 04
Aviation

Every flight is a second act waiting for a first. We write the life that gets on the plane.
S / 05
Technology

The companies building the next substrate of life need narratives worthy of what they are actually doing.
S / 06
Financial services

Institutions whose credibility comes from centuries deserve stories measured in decades.
S / 07
Heritage & craft

The makers, the vineyards, the ateliers — brands whose truest asset is time. We film time.
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Your sector

If your category is not listed and you believe it should be, that is usually the beginning of a conversation.
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For CMOs & heads of brand
Engin Altan Düzyatan, founder of EAD Studios
Still · 01EAD / DXB
06 / 07    Founder's note
I spent twenty years inside stories other people built. I am founding this studio to build stories a brand can live inside for fifty.
Engin Altan Düzyatan Founder & Chairman · EAD Studios
Read the founder's biography
07 / 07Four doors

Choose the room
you came for.

I. — For brands
Start with a campaign.
Some become films. The first door for CMOs and heads of brand building the next decade of equity.
Enter
II. — For capital
Ten-year horizons.
Cultural IP. For family offices, sovereign vehicles, and strategic film financiers. Gated, redacted by default.
Enter
III. — For institutions
LED volumes, MR, prestige history.
For museums, foundations, cultural bodies, and sovereign cultural funds commissioning at serious scale.
Enter
IV. — For press
Reviews, interviews, access.
For trade press, long-form magazines, and festival programmers. Boilerplate, portraits, and a direct line.
Enter
The Dispatch · Quarterly

A quarterly letter
from Dubai.

Notes on cinema, capital, and what comes next. Four issues a year. Written by the studio. Short enough to finish on a long flight.

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