After graduating from Boston University with a degree in Anthropology, she returned to Turkey to work under director Reha Erdem.
Upon returning to the United States, Torun co-founded production company Termite Films with cinematographer and husband Charlie Wuppermann.
[5] Torun worked as an assistant director on the 2011 television series Time for Passion, before her first feature, Kedi, in 2016.
Kedi documents the lives of street cats and the people who care for them in Torun’s native Istanbul.
She intended the film to be an examination of the human condition, saying that some of its aspects “can only be gleaned from our relationships with other animals – in this case, cats.”[2] In 2017, Torun won the Critics' Choice Award for Best First Documentary and was nominated for Best Director for her work on Kedi.