Thomas Yong - Producer

Thomas Yong was born in Seoul, but grew up in Denmark. After studying at Tel Aviv University, he returned to Denmark where he worked for TDC for a number of years. After earning his graduate degree in International Business at Copenhagen Business School, Thomas moved to New York. In New York he founded Shouting Cow Productions - an independent film and TV production company. And with Shouting Cow Productions, Thomas produced a number of short films and TV projects.

It was also in New York, where Thomas produced his first feature film TIE A YELLOW RIBBON directed by Joy Dietrich which later won 4 awards for Best Film at international film festivals and was shown at over 30 international film festivals.

Thomas returned to Denmark in 2008, where he got accepted to the alternative film school Super16 where he produced both YOU’RE THE BEST directed by Ask Hasselbalch and MEGAHEAVY directed by Fenar Ahmad. His thesis film THE CROSSING aka VILDDYR directed by Ask Hasselbalch was very well received by the audience and film critics.

MEGAHEAVY won a Robert award for Best Short Fiction by the Danish Film Academy, and was also selected for the Generation 14plus competition at the Berlin International Film Festival.

At present Thomas is in the final stages of development of his second feature film THE LIVIATHAN aka DYR UDEN NAVN directed and written by Fili Seifert. Production will commence in summer 2011.

Filmography (selected films):

VILDDYR / THE CROSSING (short film, 30min, RED, 35mm, 2010)

- Directed by Ask Hasselbalch

- Screened on DR-K (Danish Broadcasting Corporation - channel K)

MEGAHEAVY (short film, 19min, 35mm, 2009)
- Directed by Fenar Ahmad

- Grand Prix for Best Danish Short film, Odense International Film Festival

- Youth jury's Award for Best National Youth and Children Short Film

- Special Mention, Art Film Festival, Slovakia

- Robert award Best Short Fiction, 2010
- Berlin Internationale Film Festival, Generation 14Plus 2010

YOU’RE THE BEST (short film, 13min, HDCAM, 2009)

- Directed by Ask Hasselbalch

A CHILD (short film, 38min, DV, 2009)

- Directed by Pernille Rübner-Petersen

TIE A YELLOW RIBBON (feature film, 86min, HDCAM, 2007)
- Directed by: Joy Dietrich

- 4 Best Film awards at international film festivals
- Official Selection at over 30 international film festivals

THE WILLIAMSBURGERS (TV pilot, 25min, DV, 2006)

- Directed by Tony Leonardo

COLOR OF A DOUBT: - AN URBAN FABLE

(short film, 18min, DV, 2005)

- Directed by Pornsak Pichetshote & Jason Garrett Lewis

BASIC EMOTIONS (short film, 30min, DV, 2004)

- Directed by Georgia Lee, Julie Pham & Tom Moon
- Los Angeles International Short Film Festival 2004

DIAGNOSIS (short film, 4min, DV, 2004) – associate producer
- Directed by Georgia Lee

COLOR OF A DOUBT: - AN URBAN FABLE

(short film, 18min, DV, 2005)

- Directed by Pornsak Pichetshote & Jason Garrett Lewis

HOPSCOTCH (short film, 7min, DV, 2004) – associate producer
- Directed by Jae Song

- Hamptons International Film Festival 2004

THE GOOD LIFE (short film, 14min, DV, 2004) – associate producer

- Directed by Justin Mitchell