Orkide Ünsür is a published author and an award winning Turkish filmmaker from Istanbul. She was  born in Ankara. She is originally from Balkan as her grandparents & ancestors came from Rumelia (Thessaloniki and Silistre Province). She graduated from the University of Istanbul, Faculty of Business Administration. She is currently studying Brand Communication at Anadolu University.  She was trained as a filmmaker, successfully attending courses for camera, editing, interviewing technique organized by BBC team in ATV and by CNN International team in CNNTÜRK. She worked as a TV reporter, an assistant director, an assistant producer,  a script writer, a director and a producer in national TV channels and production companies.  She directed promotion films as a freelance director;  made two short documentaries one as a co-producer and one as an executive producer;  worked in short movies as  a production coordinator, an art director and an actress.

As a  producer, director and screenplay writer,  she created the two awarded short documentaries 8’den 8’e Sahildekiler (Coastlanders 8 to 8),  Metruk (The Abandoned) and  the awarded  short  screenplay Sitophobia.

Her novel Lâmia-KAN BAĞI / Lamia-CONSANGUINITY has been published and released by Altınpost Publishing in March, 2015. She is co-author of the horror anthology book Anadolu Korku Öyküleri III – Yılgayak / Anatolian Horror Stories III  (Bilgi Publishing, 2017).

She created “Dark Stories” anthology book series with different concepts. As a project director & co-author,  she collaborated with other horror & fantasy writers:

Aşkın Karanlık Yüzü-14 Şubat İçin 14 Yazardan 14 Karanlık Öykü / The Dark Side Of Love – 14 Writers, 14 Dark Love Stories for 14 February (Ithaki Publishing, 2017),  Karanlık Yılbaşı Öyküleri -Aralıktan Sızan Karanlık / Dark New Year’s Eve Stories (Bilgi Publishing, 2017)  Karanlıktaki Kadınlar / Women in Darkness (Bilgi Publishing, 2018) and lastly İstanbul’un Karanlığında – İki Kadın, Altı Öykü / In the Darkness of Istanbul – Two Women, Six Stories with Zeynep Çolakoğlu (Karakarga Publishing 2020).

She  is a jury member (short film competition) of  21st International Frankfurt Turkish Film Festival.

Orkide Ünsür has finished the first draft of her novella Aktris / Actress. She has also been working on her other projects.