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Aslıhan Ünaldı
Turkish screenwriter and director / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aslıhan Ünaldı is a Turkish cinema screenwriter, director and producer.[1]
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Alma mater | Yale University New York University's Tisch School of Arts |
Born and raised in Istanbul,[2][1] Ünaldı has been living in the United States since she was 18 years old.[3] After studying Photography and International Relations at Yale University, she went on to receive her MFA in Film from New York University's acclaimed Tisch School of the Arts.[1]
Ünaldı's first short film, Razan,[4] premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2006 and went on to screen at dozens of prestiguous festivals worldwide.[3]
In 2011, Ünaldı premiered her first environmental feature documentary, Overdrive: Istanbul in the New Millennium.[3][5] In 2023, she premiered her feature film, Suyun Üstü / Afloat,[6][7] a thriller set in a boat sailing the Aegean Sea.[8]
Ünaldı has also written scripts such as Skate Kitchen, premiered at Sundance in 2018, and Young Wrestlers, premiered at the Berlinale in 2016.[3] In addition, she teaches Screenwriting in the graduate film programs of Columbia University[9] and NYU Tisch.[10]