Özgür Uyanık

Özgür Uyanık is a writer and film director.

Uyanık was born in Turkey and raised in the United Kingdom, where his parents migrated in 1980. He attended the University of Kent at Canterbury and after graduating with a degree in Communications and Image Studies he began his career in the film industry. He has written and directed award-winning short films and ad campaigns, including Oblivious (2001), starring Sienna Guillory, which won Best European Short Film at the Brussels European Film Festival (official website) as well as being short-listed for a BAFTA and sold to Universal Sci-Fi Channel and Canal+ International for several territories. Other selected awards:

The 2010 Kaleidoscope release Resurrecting: The Street Walker is Uyanık's feature film debut as writer-director. It was nominated for Best UK Feature at the Raindance Film Festival and was official selection at the International Istanbul Film Festival, FAB Edinburgh Horror Film Festival, the Festival of Fantastic Film Manchester, Dublin Horrorthon, Abertoir Horror Film Festival, Belgium's Razor Reel and the Haapsalu Horror & Fantasy Film Festival.

Holy Men, his second feature-length film project, was selected for the 2014–2015 Binger Filmlab Writer's Lab in Amsterdam, Netherlands.