Smorgasbord Productions

The Transformer Awards and Transformer Documentary are produced by Dahveed Kolodny-Nagy of Smorgasbord Productions, long time Transformer fan. In 1994 Kolodny-Nagy assisted Jon and Karl Hartman in organizing the first BotCon Transformer convention by initiating and organizing BotCon's art contest/auction, published the "Transformer Ten Year Retrospective" and the first BotCon comic book. Kolodny-Nagy has been involved with the convention nearly every year since as a dealer. Although the Transformer Awards is not part of BotCon, it was held in conjunction with the convention.

John W Earickson, wears many hats at Smorgasbord Productions- V.P., Lead Designer, Webmaster, and head of Promotions.  Earickson served a key role in the development of the Transformer Awards, designing the Transformer Awards website, program and developing the software that enabled thousands of Transformer fans across the country to vote online for their favorite characters.

Smorgasbord Productions is a boutique studio in Hollywood involved in the creation of animation, graphic design, publicity and television programming. Dahveed Kolodny-Nagy is the president and creative director of the small, five-person company. In the past year Smorgasbord has produced two television pilots, created key art for Comedy Central and the Sci-fi Channel and created the original cartoon ‘Teapot’ for Nickelodeon(link to Teapot site). With a successful track record, Smorgasbord is sure to make the upcoming Transformer documentary a success as well.