Renan Ozturk
EXPEDITION CLIMBER, LANDSCAPE ARTIST & FILMMAKER
Apple
Commercial

Don't Mess with Mother

National Geographic
Documentary

The Last Honey Hunter

Sony Alpha
Documentary

The Ghosts Above

Passion Project
Documentary

Ashes to Ashes

Tomorrow Unlocked & Kaspersky
Documentary

From Kurils with Love

11th Hour Foundation & First Nations Development Institute
Documentary

Gather / Native Food Systems

Sony Alpha
Commercial

Moonwalk

National Geographic
Documentary

Lost On Everest

Passion Project
Documentary

Lithium Documentary

National Geographic
Documentary

The Last Tepui

Passion Project
Documentary

Sanctity of Space

Chris Burkhard
Documentary

Under an Arctic Sky

Disney & National Geographic
Commercial

Earth Moods

Honda
Commercial

Honda Rugged

West Virginia Tourism
Commercial

West Virginia Tourism

Ram Trucks
Commercial

Mr Sandman

Jason Momoa & Blaine Halvorsen
Commercial

Meili Vodka

Netflix
Documentary

Pepsi Where's My Jet

Corona Beer // Wieden+Kennedy
Commercial

Corona Natural

Yeti
Commercial

Yeti Holiday Spot

Passion Project
Documentary

Between the Rains

Passion Project
Documentary

Sherpa

About Renan Ozturk

Renan lives to tell stories about our connection to the natural world, often set within the most challenging environments on Earth. He’s constantly searching for projects that move him -- films that have a strong visual identity matched with some deeply compelling human element.

He began his career as an expedition climber and landscape artist, spending years living in a tent beneath the big walls of U.S. National Parks and in the snowy Himalayan mountains. All of his paintings were created on expedition, carrying large cotton canvases on his back, sometimes even using natural pigments pulled straight from the earth to capture these wildly beautiful landscapes. He received National Geographic Adventurer of the Year in 2013 for his combination of cutting-edge first ascents and visual storytelling.

Currently, Renan works as a commercial and documentary filmmaker, an expedition climber for The North Face, and a photojournalist for Sony and National Geographic. The films he’s made over the years have had a global presence; he’s probably best known for MERU (cinematographer/subject), which won the 2015 Audience Choice Award at Sundance, and the critically acclaimed Sherpa (cinematographer/co-director), which screened at TIFF and Telluride. He’s directed and shot commercial work for major international brands such as Apple, Google, DJI and Nike.