[1] He attended the University of Kent at Canterbury, graduating with a degree in Communications and Image Studies.
The 2010 Kaleidoscope release Resurrecting: The Street Walker is Uyanık's feature film debut as writer-director.
Holy Men, his second feature-length film project, was selected for the 2014–2015 Binger Filmlab 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.
[4] 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 Parthian Books in 2020.
[5] 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.