FDK, the alias of M. Fahad Khan, is an award-winning film director, visual effects supervisor and CG artist raised in the United Arab Emirates. His career began at sixteen, and he has spent over two decades working across Hollywood films, video games, commercials and experimental cinema. Since 2025 he has been writing and directing the animated film Quiet of Beginning, built entirely in Unreal Engine as a handmade CGI production.
The film follows a writer, Thomas Vale, who disappears while investigating a singular moment suspended in time, and his wife Elena Halden Thomas, a conservator confronting his absence. He produced the film with Florian Poprat, co-founder of the Swiss digital agency PAKD. He released an official teaser for the film in February 2025 and a trailer in April 2025. By September 2025 the film had entered a production phase in which scenes were being rendered out of Unreal Engine for visual effects and post-production.
