Person
Timur Bekmambetov
Production · Born 1961-06-25 · Guryev, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Atyrau, Kazakhstan]
Biography
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.
Known for
War of the Worlds
Producer
Mercy
Producer
The School for Scandal
2002
Wanted
Director
Unfriended
Producer
9
Producer
Searching
Producer
Projectorparishilton
2008
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Director
LifeHack
Producer
Filmography
- 2026LifeHackProducer
- 2026MercyProducer
- 2025War of the WorldsProducer
- 2025Six Till MidnightProducer
- 2025BloatProducer
- 2024CTRLExecutive Producer
- 2024#Blue_WhaleProducer
- 2023Long DProducer
- 2023ResurrectedProducer
- 2023MissingExecutive Producer
- 20222000s
- 2022#FBFProducer
- 2021V2. Escape from HellDirector
- 2021R♥️JProducer
- 2021Nineties
- 2020Like in VeniceScreenplay
- 2020Locked UpProducer
- 2020Persian LessonsProducer
- 2020GamblerProducer
- 2020Current SeaExecutive Producer
- 2019Heroic DeedProducer
- 2019Dead Of NightProducer
- 2018The Last Six Degrees of CelebrationProducer
- 2018Alice AIProducer
- 2018SearchingProducer
- 2018B-Day!Production Director
- 2018Unfriended: Dark WebProducer
- 2018RezoProducer
- 2018Tweet-TweetProducer
- 2018ProfileProducer
- 2018The Current WarProducer
- 2018UnfollowedProducer
- 2017Six Degrees of Celebration 6General Manager
- 2017The SpacewalkerProducer
- 2016Six Degrees of Celebration 5Producer
- 2016The Artist's AdventuresSelf
- 2016The Artist's AdventuresSelf
- 2016Hacking BloggersProducer
- 2016Ben-HurDirector
- 2016Before LoveExecutive Producer
- 2015The Best Day EverProducer
- 2015I Am DragonProducer
- 2015Hardcore HenryProducer
- 2015Double TroubleProducer
- 2015Paws, Bones & Rock'n'rollGeneral Manager
- 2014SquirrelsProducer
- 2014Six Degrees of Celebration 1914Director
- 2014Fool's DayProducer
- 2014Bitterly! 2Producer
- 2014UnfriendedProducer
- 2013Six Degrees of Celebration 3Producer
- 2013Bitterly!Producer
- 2013The Game of TruthProducer
- 2012Gentlemen, Good Luck!Producer
- 2012The Snow QueenProducer
- 2012Abraham Lincoln: Vampire HunterDirector
- 2012Evening UrgantSelf
- 2011The Darkest HourProducer
- 2011Kikoriki: Team InvincibleProducer
- 2011Six Degrees of Celebration 2Producer
- 2011Apollo 18Producer
- 2011Lucky TroubleProducer
- 2010Six Degrees of CelebrationProducer
- 2010Happy People: A Year in the TaigaExecutive Producer
- 2009Black LightningProducer
- 20099Producer
- 2008WantedDirector
- 2008Projectorparishilton
- 2007The Irony of Fate: ContinuationWriter
- 2006The GromovsProducer
- 2006Day WatchDirector
- 2004Night WatchDirector
- 2002The School for Scandal
- 2002GAZ. Russian CarsDirector
- 2001The ArenaDirector
- 1994Peshawar WaltzDirector
- 1987Before the Big Road to WarProduction Design
- —Petersburg CarouselDirector
- —Hodja NasreddinScreenplay
- —Blind LoveProducer
- —Потерянный и возвращенный мирProducer
- —Он - дракон 2Producer
- —SubstitutionProducer
- —ПогребённыйDirector
- —LikedProducer
- —ANSWRProducer
- —Don't Get Up!Producer
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