Ümit Ünal

He was born on April 14 1965 He graduated from 9 Eylül University Faculty of Fine Arts CinemaTV Department in 1985 The short films he made during the school received various awards His first script My Aunt won the First Prize in the 1986 Milliyet Newspaper Script Competition and was filmed by Halit Refi? Eight scenarios were filmed between 198693 He wrote and directed his first film 9 in 2001 9 2003 Turkeys candidate for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar was selected and received awards at various festivals In 2004 he directed the film Anlat Istanbul which he wrote the script together with 4 different directors The film Ara which was released written and directed in 2008 received the 27th International Istanbul Film Festivals Special Jury Prize and the 15th Golden Boll Film Festival awards for best script and best editing In 2008 he scripted and directed Hasan Ali Topta?s novel called Gölgesizler In 2010 he directed the movie Sound which was written by Uygar ?irin Unal most recently directed the movie Nar which he wrote in 2011 Four of his books have been published