Timur Bekmambetov
- Production
- June 25, 1961 · 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
Filmography
- LifeHack · Producer
- Mercy · Producer, Director
- War of the Worlds · Producer
- Six Till Midnight · Producer
- Bloat · Producer
- CTRL · Executive producer
- #Blue_Whale · Producer
- Long D · Producer
- Resurrected · Producer
- Missing · Executive producer
- 2000s
- #FBF · Producer
- V2. Escape from Hell · Director, Producer
- R♥️J · Producer
- Nineties
- Like in Venice · Screenplay, Director
- Locked Up · Producer
- Persian Lessons · Producer
- Gambler · Producer
- Current Sea · Executive producer
- Heroic Deed · Producer
- Dead Of Night · Producer
- The Last Six Degrees of Celebration · Producer, Director
- Alice AI · Producer
- Searching · Producer
- B-Day! · Production Director
- Unfriended: Dark Web · Producer
- Rezo · Producer
- Tweet-Tweet · Producer
- Profile · Producer, Director
- The Current War · Producer
- Unfollowed · Producer
- Six Degrees of Celebration 6 · General Manager
- The Spacewalker · Producer
- Six Degrees of Celebration 5 · Producer, Director
- The Artist's Adventures · Self
- The Artist's Adventures · Self
- Hacking Bloggers · Producer
- Ben-Hur · Director
- Before Love · Executive producer
- The Best Day Ever · Producer
- I Am Dragon · Producer
- Hardcore Henry · Producer
- Double Trouble · Producer
- Paws, Bones & Rock'n'roll · General Manager
- Squirrels · Producer
- Six Degrees of Celebration 1914 · Director, Producer
- Fool's Day · Producer
- Bitterly! 2 · Producer
- Unfriended · Producer
- Six Degrees of Celebration 3 · Producer
- Bitterly! · Producer
- The Game of Truth · Producer
- Gentlemen, Good Luck! · Producer
- The Snow Queen · Producer
- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter · Director, Producer
- Evening Urgant · Self
- The Darkest Hour · Producer
- Kikoriki: Team Invincible · Producer
- Six Degrees of Celebration 2 · Producer, Writer
- Apollo 18 · Producer
- Lucky Trouble · Producer
- Six Degrees of Celebration · Producer, Director
- Happy People: A Year in the Taiga · Executive producer
- Black Lightning · Producer
- 9 · Producer
- Wanted · Director
- Projectorparishilton
- The Irony of Fate: Continuation · Writer, Director
- The Gromovs · Producer
- Day Watch · Director, Writer
- Night Watch · Director, Writer
- The School for Scandal
- GAZ. Russian Cars · Director
- The Arena · Director
- Peshawar Waltz · Director, Writer
- Before the Big Road to War · Production Design
- Petersburg Carousel · Director
- Hodja Nasreddin · Screenplay, Director
- Blind Love · Producer