# ZeroPoint mk > Independent film and commercial production company in Los Angeles (Beverly Hills), founded by creative producers Kenan Baysal and Mehmet Gungoren. ZeroPoint mk produces narrative feature and short films and commercials, often international co-productions spanning Turkey, Europe and the United States. ## People - Kenan Baysal, Creative Producer. His debut feature, Sweet Thing (2020, Alexandre Rockwell), premiered at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival and won the Crystal Bear for Best Film in Generation Kplus. Tribeca alumnus; 2022 nominee for the John Cassavetes Award (Film Independent Spirit Awards); studied media at The New School. - Mehmet Gungoren, Creative Producer. Works from development to delivery, and the marketing after. Co-producer of Black Night (2022, Özcan Alper; Antigone d'Or, Cinemed Montpellier) and A Mutual Understanding (2021, Abigail Prade); producer of The Ball Method (2020, Dagmawi Abebe; DGA Student Film Award) and Dig (2020, Jono Seneff; Camerimage, Cannes Lions Young Director Award). BA in Theater, Film and Television, UCLA; MFA in Film and Television Production, USC School of Cinematic Arts. ## In the works - The Middle. Feature. Written and directed by Sylvia Ray. In a high desert town, Joanna is caught between what her family wants, what her friends expect and what it will take to save herself. - I Dream of Whirling. Feature, psychological thriller. Written and directed by Busra Coduroglu. A Turkish-American dance teacher in Brooklyn takes it on herself to end her mother’s abusive marriage, while a knot in her own neck grows into something she can’t ignore. - Silas. Feature, action comedy. Written by Jon Molerio, Ernesto M. Sandoval and Murad Unal. In Mexico City, a cartel boss’s girlfriend is secretly the masked assassin taking his empire apart, until a hopeless romantic flirts with her at a nightclub and gets mistaken for her. - Goat Mountain. Feature. Based on the novel by David Vann. On a 1978 hunting trip in the Northern California mountains, an 11-year-old boy kills a man, and over three days the four men with him come apart over what happens next. ## Films - Sweet Thing, directed by Alexandre Rockwell, 2020. Caught between an alcoholic father and a neglectful mother, teenage Billie and her little brother Nico run off for one wild summer, looking for something that feels like home. Festivals and awards: Berlin International Film Festival 2020, Crystal Bear for Best Film (Generation Kplus); Tribeca Festival 2020; Film Independent Spirit Awards 2022, nominee; Pingyao International Film Festival 2020, People's Choice Award; Valladolid International Film Festival 2020, Official Selection. IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11685322/ - Black Night, directed by Özcan Alper, 2022. The burden of a hidden crime brings a lonely musician into a deadly conflict with the people of his town. Supported by the Berlinale World Cinema Fund and CNC Aide aux cinémas du monde. Festivals and awards: Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival 2022, Best Film; Cinemed Montpellier 2023, Antigone d'Or for Best Film; Ankara International Film Festival 2022, Best Director; Ankara International Film Festival 2022, Jury Award. IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19815094/ - Level Up, directed by Gabrielle Roberts, 2025. When a rival steals their pitch at a game studio’s internal competition, two overlooked women and a new hire plan their revolt from the one room that’s theirs: the women’s restroom. Festivals and awards: Dances With Films 2026, California Premiere; Bentonville Film Festival 2025, Short Film Competition. IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt37941744/ - Home, directed by Alexandre Rockwell, 2016. A traditional Armenian song saves two wounded men, who meet on a bridge during a long night. With Simon Abkarian. A short from the anthology In the Same Garden (2016). Festivals and awards: Sarajevo Film Festival 2017; Warsaw Film Festival 2017; Rome Independent Film Festival 2017. - A Mutual Understanding, directed by Abigail Prade, 2021. A Vietnamese woman enters a marriage of convenience with a disabled American war veteran and struggles to balance her new life with her personal desires. Supported by CBK Rotterdam and CineSud. IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10487984/ - The Ball Method, directed by Dagmawi Abebe, 2020. In 1915 Hawaii, 23-year-old chemist Alice Ball pushes past racism, sexism and the clock to find a treatment for leprosy before a 10-year-old patient is exiled to Molokai. Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Festivals and awards: DGA Student Film Awards 2021, Jury Prize; Pan African Film Festival 2020, Official Selection; Sarasota Film Festival 2020, Official Selection; BronzeLens Film Festival 2020, Official Selection. IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10318550/ - Woodpecker, directed by Tanju Özdemir, 2025. On the day he applies for asylum, a young gay Kurd from Turkey learns that the new life America promised comes with the old one already waiting for him in the Turkish diaspora. Festivals and awards: Vancouver Queer Film Festival 2026, World Premiere. IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35727788/ - Intentions, directed by Tanju Özdemir, 2022. Three Turkish couples, one of them settled in the U.S., sit down to dinner, and a polite talk about hospitality turns into a reckoning with racism, from Syrian refugees to Afro-Turks. IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13839184/ - To Go to the Moon, directed by Gabrielle Roberts, 2022. Young programmer Margaret Hamilton saves the Apollo 8 mission from the one error NASA swore would never happen. Festivals and awards: Bentonville Film Festival 2023, Official Selection; Chicago International Children's Film Festival 2023, Official Selection; Dances With Films 2023, Official Selection; Portland International Film Festival 2024, Official Selection. IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15201462/ - Redbird, directed by Dagmawi Abebe. A young Black rodeo rider in small-town Oklahoma has to choose between the life he has and the dream of riding full time. Supported by Panavision. Festivals and awards: UTA Showcase 2019; USC First Look 2020, Official Selection. IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8427032/ - Dig, directed by Jono Seneff, 2020. When a neighbor’s horse goes missing in their small Appalachian valley, Caleb must cover for his autistic brother Russell. Festivals and awards: Camerimage 2020; Cannes Lions Young Director Award 2020; USC First Look 2020, Best Drama nominee; Mammoth Film Festival 2020, Official Selection. IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10217942/ - Midsummer, directed by Bash Achkar, 2019. Caught with his boyfriend in public, a closeted 16-year-old in a small conservative town has two days to grow up and plan his escape to the city. IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9453944/ - The Devil’s Son, directed by Ernesto M. Sandoval, 2019. In 1950s Mexico, Pedro, a hard-working farmer under an unjust curse, must decide whether to join the Devil to save the woman he loves from her abusive husband. Festivals and awards: Austin Film Festival 2020; German Film Music Award 2019, nominee, Best Music in a Short. IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9482392/ - God’s Gracie, directed by Chateau Bezerra, 2018. Thirteen-year-old Gracie sets out to save the soul of Heidi, an agnostic lesbian driving home from her mother’s funeral, and finds her old methods don’t work here. Festivals and awards: Outfest 2019. IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8373870/ - Shall No One Hold My Hand! (Kimse Elimi Tutmasın!), directed by Cenk Ertürk, 2018. In the line at a rest stop outside Istanbul, Emre won’t let a young mother cut ahead to buy milk for her daughter, and a small standoff cracks wide open once his father steps in. Original title: Kimse Elimi Tutmasın! Supported by the UniFrance Short Film Fund. Festivals and awards: Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival 2017, National Competition; Malatya International Film Festival 2018, Crystal Apricot, 2nd Prize; International Izmir Short Film Festival 2018, Special Award. IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7248526/ - Broken Pines, directed by Ann Marie Pace, 2017. Stuck on a camping trip while their parents’ marriage falls apart, sisters Molly and Cadence drift away from each other until there’s nowhere left to hide. Festivals and awards: TIFF Kids International Film Festival. IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6490724/ ## Commercials - Rimac, Nevera R, Faster Than Gravity - Adidas, Leeds United. Leeds United and Adidas have once again joined forces to launch the highly anticipated Leeds United away kit for the 2023/24 season. - Sony, Event Horizon. In nature, there is a phenomenon that has the power to capture light and to freeze time. Some call them singularities, some call them holes in space-time, others just call them “Black Holes.” - Primer, First Principles - Primer, The Orator ## Contact - Email: contact@zeropointmk.com - Address: 324 S. Beverly Dr #545, Beverly Hills, CA 90212, USA - Website: https://www.zeropointmk.com/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zeropointmk/ - Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user216333833