Where it all began
Hazem and Moutasem met over a decade ago and have been building together since. Hazem brought 20 years across every scale and format of video production; Moutasem came from the marketing agency world, where he learned how stories travel and how relationships turn good work into work that gets seen. Of Kin Studio combined that craft and reach.
Project after project, in new cities with new crews, one truth held: a team is only as strong as its people, who do their best work when properly taken care of. That principle shaped everything since.
The work went global, and so did the network — directors, DPs, producers, editors, strategists in key cities, ready to plug in. It's what keeps the studio flexible without being thin, scalable without losing what makes it worth hiring.
Who is of kin?
Of Kin started with a simple idea. The best work comes from people who genuinely care about each other and about what they’re making.
We’re a collective of people who never quite fit the ordinary mold, and we’ve stopped trying to. Our producers are still building schedules long after everyone else has gone home, our DOPs are hauling rigs before sunrise, our editors are in dark rooms finding the cut, and our art teams are building sets from nothing. What keeps us together isn’t a contract or a job title. It’s the fact that we keep showing up, for the work and for each other. That’s what being of kin means to us, and it applies to the people we work with too. We don’t see our clients as accounts on a roster. We see them as partners who sit on the same side of the table, take the same risks, and care about the outcome as much as we do. Wherever we’re shooting, we go into it together, and that’s how a crew and a client become Of Kin.