Kaya is a Director, Cinematographer and Producer based in Brooklyn, NY and Arcata, CA. A driving force in Kayaʼs approach to documentary work is its transformative power, for subject, storyteller and audience alike. With a constant focus on process and agency of subject, Kaya seeks to engage narratives with the potential to create new perspectives in lived experience. His work on “Radical Love” in 2021 premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. His following feature film as Cinematographer, “All Static and Noise” had its US premiere at Double Exposure in 2023 and continues to tour the globe shedding light on the harrowing experience of the Uyghur diaspora. He is the series cinematographer for Huluʼs upcoming docu-series “Vow of Silence,” an account of the American Indian Movement of the 1970s premiering this November. “Fox Chase Boy,” his directorial debut, strongly features an impulse for personal storytelling amplified through dynamic photography, multiple formats and cinematic layering.
