Timur Bekmambetov
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
- Production
- Born
- 1961-06-25 · Guryev, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Atyrau, Kazakhstan]
Known for
- Wanted (2008) — Director
- Searching (2018) — Producer
- 9 (2009) — Producer
- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012) — Director
- Unfriended (2014) — Producer
- Hardcore Henry (2015) — Producer
- Ben-Hur (2016) — Director
- Mercy (2026) — Producer
- Unfriended: Dark Web (2018) — Producer
- The Darkest Hour (2011) — Producer
- Missing (2023) — Executive Producer
- War of the Worlds (2025) — Producer
- The Current War (2018) — Producer
- Apollo 18 (2011) — Producer
- Night Watch (2004) — Director
- Day Watch (2006) — Director