Born in 1982 in Izmir, Turkey, Sila Unlu had her undergraduate degree on Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design at Sabanci University. She continued her studies on film directing at FAMU (Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague), where she wrote and directed her first award winning short film 'CheckMate'. She attended the Berlinale Talent Campus as a directing talent on 2009; and took place as a young jury member at the 2009 Nuremberg Turkish German Film Festival. She completed the longterm Producer's Workshop at Yapim Lab in 2011 and the feature length screenwriting workshop at the Gotham Writers New York in 2016. In 2016 - 2017 she ran the revitalization project of the Turkish Cinematheque. She is currently working as filmmaker in Kim Bu Video which she founded in 2014.