Rustam M. Vakilov Email & Phone Number

Rustam Vakilov is an up-and-coming visual storytelling director living in Los Angeles, CA. Before getting into filmmaking, Rustam was studying Physics at the most prestigious university in Istanbul, Turkey. His interests began shifting from science to art at the age of 18. That's when he decided to drop everything and move to Los Angeles, CA.        After three years studying Cinema in Santa Monica College, Rustam got accepted to the well known USC School of Cinematic Arts majoring in Film Production.        Soon after, Rustam started directing, producing, editing and color grading dozens of music videos, commercial and narrative works for European singers, actors and artists all around.        In the beginning of 2011, Rustam had the experience of working with Dave Franco and Emma Roberts as a 2nd Assistant Director in Cults' "Go Outside" music video. The same year, Rustam had an amazing opportunity working directly with Vin Diesel as a cinematographer for one of the TV episodes of "The Ropes", co-directed by Vin Diesel and Zoe Saldana.        Rustam has also worked as DI colorist on numerous high profile clients such as Sony Music and Snapchat’s Discover partner, Mitu. In 2016, Rustam played an important role as one of the editor’s of YouTube Red’s first original feature film “A Trip to Unicorn Island”, helping it land the Streamy Awards.        Rustam enjoys working with concepts that resonate with, both the natural and supernatural. His vision brings out new perspectives to the world as he goes deep into exploring psychological connections, esoteric symbolism and undiscovered mysteries.         He speaks three languages; Russian, Turkish, and English as his third.             Rustam is currently working on his feature length directorial debut.

Listed skills include Cinematography, Film Production, Screenwriting, Music Videos, and 21 others.