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Director Fenar Ahmad

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fenar Ahmad - Director

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.

 

     
    Filmography (selected films @ Shouting Cow Productions):
   
   

MEGAHEAVY (short film, 19min, 35mm, 2009)
- Robert award Best Short Fiction, 2010
- Berlin Internationale Film Festival, Generation 14Plus 2010