Umran Safter

Ümran Safter is a award winning producer, director and journalist. Recently she produced and directed feature documentary film Sevan The Craftsman is about famous jewelry designer Sevan Bicakci. She produced The Eye of Istanbul in 2015. The film has been screened at several international film festival and awarded Best of Fest at the Washington DC Independent Film Festival in 2016. She is also veteran journalist with two decades of experience covering Turkey and the Middle East. She started her career in journalism in 1996. She has worked at several media outlets and television stations including CNN Turk, Kanal 7, TRT Turk and Al Jazeera Turk, both as a correspondent and news editor. Some of the issues she has covered include the Iraq war, the Palestine-Israel conflict, and the conditions faced by Syrian refugees at the border. She has also produced a number of television documentaries and television shows; some of which include a feature on life in Guantanamo Prison, the story of victims of the Bosnian war, and the conditions faced by Iraqi refugees in Syria. She is the founder of Ekim Medya company. She lives in Istanbul.