Film Posters
Theatrical and digital poster design for award-winning independent films, in association with Nu Boyana Film Studios.
CLIENT
FilmForge / Nu Boyana Film Studios
PROJECT YEAR
2022 – Present
DIRECTOR
Moe Acharki
ROLE
Poster Designer
THE BRIEF
A multi-year working relationship designing theatrical posters for the films of director Moe Acharki, in association with Nu Boyana Film Studios — one of Europe's most established production facilities, known for hosting Hollywood productions including The Expendables and 300: Rise of an Empire.
Each project begins without a traditional brief. Working with an independent director means the visual identity of each film starts as a conversation about themes, tone, and audience. The poster is often the first piece of the film's external identity to exist.
PROCESS
Across all films, the working method has been similar: develop visual concepts collaboratively with the director, generate atmospheric imagery (often using Midjourney as a concept tool for moodboarding and base imagery), then refine and composite in Photoshop until each element earns its place.
The typographic treatment is bespoke for each film — there's no template, no shared visual system. Each film gets its own typographic identity, its own colour story, its own compositional logic. That bespoke approach is what theatrical poster design demands; it's also what makes the work satisfying.
A PART OF IT ALL
Short Film · 2022 · Director: Moe Acharki
A meditation on identity, presence, and what it means to belong. The film's restraint and quiet intelligence demanded a poster that didn't oversell — no faces, no action, no genre signposting. The solution was reductive: a silhouetted figure walking forward, anchored in negative space, with the title set in a near-disappearing serif that asks the viewer to lean in.
The composition uses scale and emptiness as emotional tools. The figure is small. The space around them is vast. The title fades almost into the page. Every choice supports the film's thesis without explaining it.
Recognition
★ Runner-up · Big Picture Festival 2023 (Short Film Competition)
★ Official Selection · Golden FEMI Film Festival 2024
★ Official Selection · Lift-Off Global Network (×2)
THE COST OF THE CROWN
Drama · Director: Moe Acharki
A medieval drama about power, sacrifice, and the price paid by those who wear the crown. Where A Part of it All called for restraint, this film needed weight — the visual language of mortality, monarchy, and consequence.
The composition is built around two icons: a sword driven downward, and a crown set heavily at its base. Blood spatter against the cracked-plaster background grounds the imagery in violence without becoming gratuitous. The typographic treatment uses a high-contrast medieval-influenced face with engraved depth, framing the title as something carved rather than printed.
The colours are deliberately muted — bronze, oxidised gold, blood red, stone grey — pulling the visual register away from fantasy convention and toward something closer to historical drama. Both portrait and landscape formats were delivered for theatrical and digital distribution.
THE OUTCOME
Posters created for these films have been used across theatrical promotion, digital distribution platforms, and festival submissions. A Part of it All travelled internationally to multiple festivals with the poster as a key piece of its visual identity, contributing to award recognition and official selections across the festival circuit.
The ongoing collaboration with Moe Acharki and Nu Boyana Film Studios continues, with further films in development.