Onur Ünlü

Onur Ünlü was born in İzmit in 1973. After graduating from Anadolu University School of Communication Sciences, he went onto complete his Master’s degree at Marmara University School of Communication Sciences. Since 1997 he has realized many projects as screenwriter, copywriter, producer and director. His full length feature film Police (2007), which he wrote and directed, tells the story of Musa Rami’s turbulent life as a homicide detective who is at the peak of his career, was shown at numerous festivals, among them the Moscow Film Festival. In 2008, he wrote and directed two fantastic genre films, The Kid and The Son of the Sun. He won awards from the Antalya Golden Orange and the Adana Golden Boll Film Festivals and the Turkish Film Critics Association (SİYAD) for his 2009 film Five Cities that tells “the tragic story of a group of people.” In the same year, he wrote the script and co-produced Love, Bitter. He is the writer and director of the TV show Leyla and Mecnun. His most recent film, The Extremely Tragic Story of Celal Tan and His Family, won Best Film, Best Screenplay, and Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast Performance at the 18th Adana Golden Boll Film Festival.