Ilyas Hayta was born in Kilis in 1982. He has been living in Izmir since 1991. After completing his high school and college education on Radio-TV, he started his professional career in various TV institutions in 2002. He directed many documentaries for TRT Documentary and Iz TV channels. From 2012 onwards, he has focused on his own productions. He worked as the cinematographer and assistant director of the documentary “A Tobacco Story” with the K2 Contemporary Art Association. He directed the documentary film of the Open Studio project. In addition to being the visual director of the K2 Contemporary Art Association’s “Daire” guest artist program, he has produced collective works with many artists. Some of these are the cinematography of Aydın Teker’s video art project titled “Sürgün”, and his photography productions with Ferhat Özgür, Gülçin Aksoy and Tuğçe Tuna. He worked on video clip projects with musicians such as Aga-b, Light in Babylon and Hakan Vreskala. He shot videoart works titled “Kar (Snow)” and “See the Bee”, which focus on the details between the city and the nature. He produced the video art work “Fish memory” together with Alper Bıçaklıoğlu, within the scope of Globera. He is currently the documentation coordinator of K2 Contemporary Art Association.