MEGAHEAVY, filmmakers
Director: Fenar Ahmad
Fenar Ahmad was born in Czechoslovakia in 1981. He and came to Denmark
in 1986 as an Iraqi refugee and has since lived in Copenhagen, only interrupted
by a two years stay in the US where he attended high school in Texas where
his interest in filmmaking started.
His documentary NICE TO MEET YOU won a prize at the film festival Salam
DK and was broadcasted on national television.
He then became apart of the Danish film collective SUPER16 and went
on and finished 2 fiction short films and a documentary with the support
from the Danish Film Institute/New Danish Screen. In 2009 he won first
prize at The Gulf Film Festival for his short film MESOPOTAMIA. He is
currently working on his first feature film.
Producer: Thomas Yong
Thomas Yong was born in Seoul, but raised in Denmark. After earning his graduate degree in International Business at Copenhagen Business School, Thomas moved to New York City where he founded Shouting Cow Productions, LLC, - an independent film and TV production company. With Shouting Cow, Thomas produced the short film BASIC EMOTIONS which premiered at Los Angeles International Short Film Festival 2004.
In 2003 Thomas associate produced Jae Song's short film HOPSCOTCH based on a novel by Julio Cortazár. HOPSCOTCH premiered at Hamptons International Film Festival in 2004. Thomas also associate produced Justin Mitchell’s THE GOOD LIFE and Georgia Lee’s latest short film DIAGNOSIS.
In 2003 Thomas produced COLOR OF A DOUBT: AN URBAN FABLE directed by Pornsak Pichetshote and Jason Garrett Lewis, and in 2006 Thomas produced THE WILLIAMSBURGERS, a TV pilot, directed by Tony Leonardo. When Thomas returned to Denmark he worked on several TV and film productions, latest as a producer on the short film A CHILD.
Thomas biggest achievement was when he produced the feature-length film TIE A YELLOW RIBBON directed by Joy Dietrich. TIE A YELLOW RIBBON has been nominated for Best Film at over 8 film festivals, and won the Special Jury Prize for Best Director at CineVegas Film Festival 2007, and won Best Narrative Feature Film at Urbanworld Film Festival 2007 in New York.