Bulent Gurcan

Bulent Gurcan immigrated to the US in 1997 when he was 21. Shortly after he joined the United States Army and served in two tours to Iraq. He received his undergraduate degree from UT El Paso in 2006 in Exercise Science and went on to receive a graduate degree in 2008 from Northwestern State in Health & Human Performance. Bulent became a Border Patrol Agent in 2006 and a Customs Officer in 2008. He served 11 years under Customs & Border Protection as a federal agent. In 2018, he joined the cast of Naked & Afraid and has 13 episodes with the Discovery Channel. In 2020, he wrote and shot his first award-winning action short and joined Tonia Kempler at Bellem Entertainment in 2020. In 2021, they formed Entangled Entertainment. Their projects range in format and genre, spanning everything from action to horror and Rom-Coms to thrillers, including shorts, features, episodic series, unscripted reality shows, web series, and podcasts. They have shot and completed several award-winning short films and an unscripted reality show. Their work is currently making the rounds in the festival circuit.