WHAT IS SCREENLIFE?
Visual language of the digital filmmaking of the future: in screenlife films the entire action is set on the screen of digital devices.
TIMUR BEKMAMBETOV
Visionary director Timur Bekmambetov is the pioneer of screenlife films. His productions, Unfriended and Searching, were box office hits, earning $65 million and $75 million respectively against a budget of $1 million. The latest installment in the subgenre, Missing, grossed $48.8 million and topped the Netflix movie chart in the US last summer. Pioneering screenlife format has earned his production company BEL a spot among the top 10 most innovative video companies in the world by Fast Company. Bekmambetov is currently directing a new Amazon MGM thriller Mercy starring Chris Pratt and Rebecca Fergusson.
