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Timur Bekmambetov
Guryev, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Atyrau, Kazakhstan]
Timur Bekmambetov is a Kazakh-Russian filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter best known for directing Night Watch and Wanted, as well as pioneering the modern screenlife format. Th…
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Timur Bekmambetov is a Kazakh-Russian filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter best known for directing Night Watch and Wanted, as well as pioneering the modern screenlife format. Through films including Unfriended, Searching, Profile, and Missing, Bekmambetov helped establish screenlife storytelling as a major evolution of found footage and digital-era horror. His work popularized films told entirely through computer screens, video calls, and mobile devices, influencing a new generation of internet-native thriller and horror filmmaking.
Filmography
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2026
LifeHack
Movie Producer
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2026
Mercy
Movie Director
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2025
War of the Worlds
Movie Producer
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2025
Six Till Midnight
Movie Producer
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2025
Bloat
Movie Producer
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2024
CTRL
Movie Executive Producer
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2024
#Blue_Whale
Movie Producer
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2023
Long D
Movie Producer
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2023
Resurrected
Movie Producer
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2023
Missing
Movie Executive Producer
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2022
2000s
TV show
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2022
#FBF
Movie Producer
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2021
V2. Escape from Hell
Movie Director
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2021
R♥️J
Movie Producer
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2021
Nineties
TV show
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2020
Like in Venice
Movie Screenplay
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2020
Locked Up
TV show Producer
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2020
Persian Lessons
Movie Producer
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2020
Gambler
Movie Producer
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2020
Current Sea
Movie Executive Producer
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2019
Heroic Deed
Movie Producer
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2019
Dead Of Night
TV show Producer
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2018
The Last Six Degrees of Celebration
Movie Producer
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2018
Alice AI
Movie Producer
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2018
Searching
Movie Producer
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2018
B-Day!
Movie Production Director
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2018
Unfriended: Dark Web
Movie Producer
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2018
Rezo
Movie Producer
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2018
Tweet-Tweet
Movie Producer
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2018
Profile
Movie Producer
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2018
The Current War
Movie Producer
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2018
Unfollowed
Movie Producer
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2017
Six Degrees of Celebration 6
Movie General Manager
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2017
The Spacewalker
Movie Producer
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2016
Six Degrees of Celebration 5
Movie Producer
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2016
The Artist's Adventures
Movie Self
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2016
The Artist's Adventures
TV show Self
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2016
Hacking Bloggers
Movie Producer
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2016
Ben-Hur
Movie Director
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2016
Before Love
Movie Executive Producer
