Orhan Tekeoğlu is a Turkish scriptwriter and film director born in Trabzon. He graduated in 1983 from the Radio and Television Department of Gazi University and worked as a journalist for 25 years before dedicating himself fully to filmmaking. Together with Dr. Nurdan Tekeoğlu, he founded Medya Ton, through which he produced İfakat, a documentary that won an award from TRT, the Turkish state television channel.
In 2013, he completed his first feature film, I Loved You So Much, after three years of work. The film was screened in the official selections of the Moscow Film Festival, Kyiv IFF Molodist, and several others, earning Best Foreign Film awards at the Canada Film Festival and the Portobello Film Festival.
He later directed Extraordinary People (2016) and co-directed Rudolf Nureyev: Island of His Dreams with Evgenia Tirdatova. In 2019, he finished Time to Leave, supported by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, which received an Honourable Mention at the Beyond Borders Documentary Film Festival.
In 2020, Tekeoğlu directed 7 Kybeles, followed by Untold Story of Fatma Kayacı (2022), which won the TRT Documentary Award. His most recent work is Shattered. He currently teaches film at Istanbul Esenyurt University.
