Timur Bekmambetov

Timur Bekmambetov
Тимур Бекмамбетов
Bekmambetov in 2012
Born	Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov (1961-06-25) 25 June 1961 (age 63) Guryev, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
Citizenship	Russian
Occupations	Film director film producer screenwriter

Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov (Russian: Тимур Нуруахитович Бекмамбетов, pronounced [tʲɪˈmur nʊrʊɐˈxʲitəvʲɪt͡ɕ bʲɪkmɐmˈbʲetəf]; Kazakh: Темір Нұрбақытұлы Бекмамбетoв, romanized: Temır Nūrbaqytūly Bekmambetov; born 25 June 1961) is a Russian-Kazakh film director, producer, screenwriter, and tech entrepreneur.^[1] He is best known for the fantasy epic Night Watch (2004) and the action thriller Wanted (2008), as well as for the pioneering screenlife films Unfriended (2015), Searching (2018) and Profile (2018). He founded Baselevs, a production company that earned a spot among the 2021 World's 10 Most Innovative Companies in Video, according to Fast Company.