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Mahdi/Ummah Films

It's Better to Have Understanding Than Knowledge..

About Me

I am Mahdi Ahmad and I am the co-founder of Ummah Films.Born and raised in America, an "Army brat" and most important Muslim, I a young man trying to make a positive impact in the world. I love reading, writing, hanging out with friends, HAVING FUN, watching and MAKING movies. I'm a good debater, but I don't debate for the sake of debating. I love living in an area of diversity, because I am diverse myself.I am also on Facebook so if you type "Mahdi Ahmad", you should be able to find me...

My Interests

Islam, studying all religions and non-religious belief systems, reading, writing, anything intellectually stimulating, cars (tuner/import scene!), movies (of course) and too many other things I'm too lazy to write down lol!

I'd like to meet:

Cool people, plain and simple. Whatever your background is, as long as you're cool, I'm even cooler with you.

Music:

Hip-hop (mostly), but I like ANYTHING that sounds good from rock to classical to pop to whatever.

Movies:

Brother Kumasi from Compton explaining how he was able to make something for himself and escape the temptations to join gangs because of Islam, the true solution for mankind:Me "Keeping it Real" in my pilot episode:

Television:

I love reality shows with craziness, humor, action, etc. And I love Curb Your Enthusiasm, Crank Yankers, Dave Chappelle, etc. Again, too lazy to just name them all.

Books:

The Holy Qur'an and other Islamic Books; the Art of War so on and so forth (I read so many books!)

Heroes:

The Prophet Muhammad

My Blog

Movie Updates and Ummah Films

As-salaamu alaikum, I've been busy working on the short film 'Going Up North' and been updating the blogs http://goingupnorththemovie.blogspot.com and www.ummahfilms.com and decided to just ...
Posted by Mahdi/Ummah Films on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:46:00 PST

Storyboarding FINISHED!

As salaamu `alaikum,   AlHamdulillah, the storyboarding is finished!  I took out some scenes I felt were unnecessary and started to take pictures and write the accompanying text with it.&nbs...
Posted by Mahdi/Ummah Films on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 03:00:00 PST

Hip-Hop Artist 580 to Act in "Going Up North"!

As salaamu `alaikum,Alhamdulillah, Muslim hip-hop artist 580 (http://www.myspace.com/deenmusic) has accepted a role in the upcoming Ummah Films' movie "Going Up North"! He will play one of the main ch...
Posted by Mahdi/Ummah Films on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 06:35:00 PST

My First Video Blog Episode - A Muslim Keeping It Real

As-salaamu `alaikum,"A Muslim Keeping It Real" is the first episode from Ummah Films' co-founder Mahdi Ahmad, (that is, ME). It is a different type of video blog than "The Reminder", because it deals ...
Posted by Mahdi/Ummah Films on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 08:31:00 PST

Ummah Films' First Press Release!

We got our first press release that was released on 9-12-06.  Please check it out: http://www.prweb.com/releases/Ummah/Films/prweb436393.htm...
Posted by Mahdi/Ummah Films on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 09:51:00 PST

New Ummah Films Website is Up!

AlHamdulillah, the Ummah Films website is up.  With a cool, sleek design and easy navigation, our site will allow you to view all the videos with ease and you can still comment in the blog by cli...
Posted by Mahdi/Ummah Films on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 08:45:00 PST

Ummah Films Wins First Prize in Film Festival

I got some MORE good news regarding my film company.  In our very first film festival we entered, we received the top honors regarding one of our films! We got the first place prize for our video...
Posted by Mahdi/Ummah Films on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:44:00 PST

Ummah Film's First Official Interview in Newspaper!

We had our first official interview with the locally popular Infocus Muslim newspaper here in Southern California.Please check us out where me and Baba Ali are interviewed and highlighted on the succe...
Posted by Mahdi/Ummah Films on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 12:40:00 PST

The Video Blogs are off the Hook on Ummah Films!

It's been a few weeks now and we decided to start a video blog on www.ummahfilms.com.  Baba Ali saw a few blogs on the web and told me about it.  We talked about having a "Muslim version" an...
Posted by Mahdi/Ummah Films on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 08:39:00 PST

My First Commercial!

I directed my first commercial this Sunday for Muslim Wristband, and I had no planning, no script, no notes, etc., whatsoever!  The thing was completely spontaneous and I had my creative juices f...
Posted by Mahdi/Ummah Films on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:24:00 PST