Producer
Timur Bekmambetov
65 years · Guryev, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Atyrau, Kazakhstan] · 58 films
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.
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Filmography 57
LifeHack
2026 · Producer
On Netflix
Mercy
2026 · Producer, Director
On Philo
War of the Worlds
2025 · Producer
On Amazon Prime Video
Six Till Midnight
2025 · Producer
Bloat
2025 · Producer
On Fawesome
#Blue_Whale
2024 · Producer
Long D
2023 · Producer
Resurrected
2023 · Producer
#FBF
2022 · Producer
On Hoopla
V2. Escape from Hell
2021 · Director, Producer
R♥️J
2021 · Producer
Persian Lessons
2020 · Producer
On Kanopy
Gambler
2020 · Producer
The Last Six Degrees of Celebration
2018 · Producer, Director
Alice AI
2018 · Producer
Searching
2018 · Producer
On YouTube Free
Unfriended: Dark Web
2018 · Producer
On Peacock Premium
Rezo
2018 · Producer
On Kanopy
Tweet-Tweet
2018 · Producer
Profile
2018 · Producer, Director
On YouTube TV
The Current War
2018 · Producer
Unfollowed
2018 · Producer
The Spacewalker
2017 · Producer
On Hoopla
Six Degrees of Celebration 5
2016 · Producer, Director