Iki Ènèng

Iki Ènèng is a Swedish filmmaker, who usually takes on all crew jobs in his movies. He was born in Indonesia, but his family emigrated to Sweden when he was four years old, where he's been living ever since. His passion for music was born when he got an electronic keyboard as a gift for his eighth birthday and started composing his own songs. In 2008, he started creating remixes of other artists' songs, which he published on a since-deleted YouTube channel. In 2016, he discovered his passion for film. Having heard a lot about the hype for Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) the previous year, he started watching all of the Star Wars movies in a span of two weeks. He loved them so much that movies became his main field of interest. He started looking at movies from a more professional and creative standpoint after coming across many of the film reviews by Chris Stuckmann. In 2018, he began writing songs again and composed three songs, which were originally not meant to appear in a movie. However, later that year, he began production on his first feature film, 0000: A Shark Odyssey (2018), of which he is the director, writer, producer, editor, and animator, and the three songs ended up in the film. He then wrote a sequel, 0009: The Sharks Make Contact (2019), containing five musical numbers, and a second sequel, 0010: The Sharks Make Contact - Part 2 (2019), was released in December of 2019, completing the Sharkverse trilogy. He then began building his larger Iki Cinematic Multiverse, which the Sharkverse trilogy is a part of. For The Forevers (2020), which takes place right before 0000: A Shark Odyssey (2018), he cast RaisorBlade, the only film critic at the time who reviewed 0000: A Shark Odyssey (2018), to play the Repigeonator, a role he will reprise in the Iki Cinematic Multiverse film Forevers 2: Age of Teeth (2021). He is also producing a prequel book to The Forevers (2020) called "Power to the Birds", which is his first attempt at a story that's good in the traditional sense, instead of a "so bad it's good" story. His favorite films of all time are Interstellar (2014) and Lion (2016), and he considers Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Avengers: Endgame (2019) and The Room (2003) the films most influential to him.