Özgür Uyanık is a film director

Film director

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First as an executive and then heading the development department at Scala Productions Limited (a company set up by Nik Powell

Nik Powell

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 after the collapse of Palace Productions), Özgür helped shepherd a twelve-strong slate of films and successfully saw in to production the likes of Last Orders

Last Orders (film)

Last Orders is a 2001 British/German drama film written and directed by Fred Schepisi. The screenplay is based on the 1996 Booker Prize-winning novel of the same title by Graham Swift.-Synopsis:...

(Michael Caine

Michael Caine

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, Bob Hoskins

Bob Hoskins

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 & Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren

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), Black and White

Black and White (2002 film)

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(Robert Carlyle

Robert Carlyle

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, Charles Dance

Charles Dance

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 & Kerry Fox

Kerry Fox

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), Leo (Joseph Fiennes

Joseph Fiennes

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, Elizabeth Shue, Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper

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 & Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard

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) and Christmas Carol: The Movie

Christmas Carol: The Movie

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(animated feature voiced by Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage

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 and Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet

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) for which he was subsequently responsible for selling the worldwide rights to MGM Home Entertainment

MGM Home Entertainment

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, acting as the sales agent for The Film Consortium. During this time he also worked on the development of Stoned

Stoned (film)

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, directed by Stephen Woolley

Stephen Woolley

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He has written and directed several award-winning short films including 'A Short Story About Friends' (1993), 'Nothing Much' (1994) and Oblivious

Oblivious (film)

Oblivious is a 2001 short film written and directed by Ozgur Uyanik. It won the Canal+ Prize for Best European Short Film at the Brussels European Film Festival, 2001....

(2001) starring Sienna Guillory

Sienna Guillory

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 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

Universal Studios

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 Sci-Fi Channel

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 and Canal+ International for several territories.

The 2010 released Resurrecting: The Street Walker

Resurrecting: The Street Walker

Resurrecting: The Street Walker is a 2009 British horror film written and directed by Özgür Uyanık about an ambitious young filmmaker who discovers an abandoned and incomplete horror movie from the 1980s and decides to finish it...

produced by London-based production outfit 2nd Floor Productions is Uyanık's feature film debut as writer-director. He also edited the film. Nominated Best UK Feature at Raindance Film Festival and official selection at International Istanbul Film Festival, FAB Edinburgh Horror Film Festival, The Festival of Fantastic Film, Dublin Horrorthon, Abertoir Horror Film Festival and Haapsalu Horror & Fantasy Film Festival. Distributed in the UK by Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment.

Official "Resurrecting the Street Walker" website

Özgür Uyanık on the Internet Movie Database

Official Özgür Uyanık website