Ömür Kınay

Ömür Kınay is a Turkish film director, born in Istanbul in 1979, who works as a wheelchair user after a spinal cord injury suffered in the 17 August 1999 earthquake. She studied painting at the Bakırköy Vocational High School for Girls, later earned a Communication-Design degree at Istanbul Kültur University, and went on to a master's degree there. Her three-minute short film Kün, based on seven pieces of advice from the poet and Sufi mystic Rumi, won the Best Experimental Film award at the 14th Golden Boll Film Festival in Adana in 2007, and she also made the animation Empati about a non-disabled person seeking work in the world of disabled people. She now pursues an academic career at Istanbul Bilgi University.