Özgür Uyanık is a writer and

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Early life and education

Uyanık was born in Turkey and raised in the United Kingdom. He attended the

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, graduating with a degree in Communications and Image Studies.

Career

He began his career in the film industry after graduation. He has written and directed award-winning short films and ad campaigns, including '' Oblivious'' (2001), starring

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, which won Best European Short Film at the Brussels European Film Festival as well as being short-listed for a

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and sold to

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Sci-Fi Channel and

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for several territories. 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

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and was official selection at the

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, FAB Edinburgh Horror Film Festival, the Festival of Fantastic Film Manchester, Dublin Horrorthon,

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Horror Film Festival in

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, 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

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Writer's Lab in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Creative Europe MEDIA workshop The Film Garage created by Scuola Holden with the collaboration of Courmayeur Noir In Festival and Frontières. His debut novel CONCEPTION was published in 2020 by Fairlight Books in the UK. He was a contributing co-editor for an anthology of creative essays by under-represented voices called JUST SO YOU KNOW—ESSAYS OF EXPERIENCE, published by

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in 2020. In the same year he was commissioned to run a webinar by Literature Wales for a cohort of writers from under-represented backgrounds and has taught creative writing at Cardiff University and Cardiff Metropolitan University.https://www.linkedin.com/in/ozguruyanik/

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Uyanik, Ozgur Living people Academics of Cardiff University Alumni of the University of Kent British film directors People associated with Cardiff Metropolitan University Turkish emigrants to the United Kingdom Turkish film directors Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people)