JB FILM FESTIVAL 2015: FESTIVAL GUIDE

FESTIVAL GUIDE

“And I believe every human being has the potential to create value in the world”

— Kosal Khiev, Cambodian Son

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CONTENTS

FILMS5–18

SHORT FILMS19–20

WORKSHOPS21–22

PROGRAMME23–24

PARTNERS25

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JOHOR BAHRUINTERNATIONALFESTIVALCITY

Johor Bahru: International Festival City (JB:IFC) is a bold initiative by the Johor Society for the Performing Arts (JSPA) to catapult and position the city of Jo-hor Bahru as a leading festival city in the region; hosting world - acclaimed events encompassing arts, music, culture & more.

As the city expands its local and global reach, so must it continue to embrace and promote the arts - both at a community and interna-tional level - as well as showcase the rich and historical culture of Johor and Malaysia to its many residents and visitors. The hallmark of any great city is its ability to connect the arts

and culture to the resident and business com-munities. As the JB Festivals move in tandem with the ambition of the city, we welcome the participation of corporate partners, sponsors and supporters to help realise the vision of making Johor Bahru a truly great and world-class city.

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CUAKWith meddlesome friends, insane in-laws, a suspicious step-brother & unresolved ex- girl friend issues, Adam is having second thoughts about his marriage to Brenda. The story is told through the eyes of 5 different directors, who each take one of the issues plaguing our groom-to-be, combining it together to make one movie. Cuak is a truly Malaysian movie with themes that resonate with a universal audience.

COMEDY, DRAMA

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MALAYSIA

DIRECTORS’ BIOGRAPHY

Khairil M. Bahar made a no-budget debut feature, Ciplak which won the Anugerah Skrin award for best alternative cinema. Khairil has since written & direct-ed a number of TV series and short films for 15Malay-sia. His second no-budget feature was Relationship Status. He is currently in post-production for his first mainstream film.

Benji Lim graduated in Electronic Media & Film from Towson University, Maryland, USA. Benji along with high school buddies, Bahir Yeusuff & Arivind Abra-ham collaborated on a series of films such as S’kali (2006) and The Joshua Tapes (2008). Following those collaborations, Bahir & Benji were chosen as a team to produce Meter for 15Malaysia.

Manesh Nesaratnam, in his 12 years in the industry, has offended actors, irritated corporate clients & in-furiated producers. His plagued portfolio includes TV work, documentaries & corporate work & an Anugerah Skrin for Best Comedy Series 2012. He was a judge for the BMW Shorties. Manesh also runs a regular scriptwriting workshop for serious writers.

Tony Pietra Arjuna began as an offline editor at Asia Pacific Videolab & Mirage Post. He directed some independently-made music videos & shorts before moving into TV production with Niche Films where he directed episodes of an Astro RIA drama series & a made-for-NTV7 feature. He worked on an an-imation series & 2 documentaries for the Crime & Investigation Network.

Shamaine Othman graduated from Monash Univer-sity, Melbourne with a degree in Performing Arts. From a young age, she acted in TV sitcoms & later on stage. She has written several short plays & is a member of a comedy ensemble. Shamaine went into stand-up comedy performing at Time Out KL’s Comedy Thursdays. She has also written for TV & directed a short in the Ikal Mayang series.

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SAYANG DI-SAYANGMurni is a live-in nurse who works for Pak Ha-run, a lonely & bitter, elderly man who con-tinually harangues his caregiver. Murni is in dilemma – to cook a Sambal Goreng* dish that is exactly like the one cooked by the man’s late wife but success seems to elude her. Despite this Murni also loves to sing in the kitchen, irritating Pak Harun further. What is the elusive ingredient to release the tension between Murni & Pak Harun to remedy these broken hearts & bring them together to sing the same tune?

DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY

Sanif Olek is a Singaporean-based, TV & film direc-tor since 1996. He graduated with a Film & Media Studies Diploma from Ngee Ann Polytechnic (Sin-gapore) & Media & Communications from Murdoch University (Australia). He collaborates regularly with Singapore’s heritage board & arts council for commissioned works, residency & public outreach

programmes. His short films have been screened at numerous international film festivals. This is his de-but feature & was Singapore’s official entry to the 2015 Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film. He is currently juggling between full-time TV work, part-time lecturing & the occasional community work.

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DRAMA SINGAPORE

FESTIVALS

Indie Fest USA; Hawaii; Luang Prabang; Jogja; Asia Pacific Screen; Barcelona; Mosaic World Film Festi-val; Edmonton; Opening Film, Phnom Penh; Closing Film, Southeast Asian Film Festival.

AWARDS

Best Asian Film (Jury Prize), SalaMindanaw; Best Musical, Mexico; Best Cinematography & Story, World Film Awards.

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HALAWHalaw in the Malay language means ‘driven-away’. The film tackles the themes of exploitation & human trafficking, following the journey of a few people as they take an arduous journey into unchartered territories & illegally cross the borders of Bongao, Philippines to Sabah, Malaysia in the hope of substituting certain poverty for the uncertain future that awaits them.

FESTIVALS

Invited to screen & compete at some 2-dozen film festivals in Asia, Europe, US, South America & Aus-tralia.

AWARDS

Best Film, Director, Actor & Editing at the Philippines’ 2010 Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival; Special Mention, NETPACat the 2011 Berlin IFF; Best Picture, 2011 New York Hell’s Kitchen International Film Fes-tival; NETPAC Development Prize, 2011 Asia Pacific Screen Awards.


Sheron Dayoc graduated with a degree in AB Philos-ophy. He is an alumnus of the Asian Film Academy in Busan, Korea & NEXT Master Class of the 2010 Tokyo Filmex. He honed his craft by producing, di-recting & writing documentaries, including his Asian Pitch 2008, “A Weaver’s Tale” which won a Certifi-cate of Creative Excellence at the US International Film & Video Festival 2010. He is currently produc-ing his second film project, which he wrote & will direct, Women of the Weeping River, one of 6 film projects selected for the 2011 Sundance Scriptwrit-ing Lab. He is currently in post production of a full length documentary feature titled The Crescent Rising about the Moro revolution in Southern Phil-ippines.

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ACTION, DRAMA PHILIPPINES

LABOUROF LOVE

Set in the crumbling environs of Calcutta, Labour of Love is a lyrical unfolding of 2 ordinary lives suspended in the duress of a spiralling recession. They are married to a cycle of work & domestic routine & long stretches of waiting in the silence of an empty house. The husband works the night shift while the wife, the day shift. Their paths literally do not cross. Incorporat-ing poignant political undertones, it is a stylistically beautiful film that depicts the challenge of sustaining love in a fast transitioning world. It is a film appropriately devoid of all dialogue.

FESTIVALS

Venice (world premiere); Rotterdam; Busan; BFI London; Tallinn Black Nights; Warsaw; Abu Dhabi; Stockholm; Lisbon & Estoril; Ljubljana; Marrakech; Mons; Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Indian Film Fes-tival of Los Angeles; Istanbul; Fajr (Tehran); Kerala; Kolkata; Bangalore; Mumbai; Chennai; Jaipur.

AWARDS

Indira Gandhi Award for Best Film by a Debut Di-


Aditya Vikram Sengupta started training in western classical music & was an active dramatist throughout his childhood. He studied literature before pursuing design studies at the National Institute of Design & later, trained himself in animation & film. His student shorts have screened at various international festi-vals including Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival, Animafest Zagreb & Sao Paulo International Film festival. Vikram worked as a promo director with a music TV station before pursuing filmmaking full time.

rector; National Film Award – Best Sound Design; FEDEORA Award for Best Film by a Debut Director – Venice; Best Director – Marrakech; NETPAC Award for Best Asian Film – Bangalore; Jury Special Men-tion – Abu Dhabi; Honourable Mention – BFI London; Best Film – Jaipur.

DRAMA, ROMANCE INDIA

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TELEVISIONChairman Amin bans every kind of image in his water-locked village in rural Bangladesh since he considers it to be un-Islamic. For him, even imagination is sinful since it gives one the license to infiltrate into any prohibited territory. But change is a desperate wind that is difficult to resist by shutting the window. The tension between the traditional & the modern grows & starts to have a ripple effect on the lives of a group of colorful, eccentric & emotional village people. But at the end of the film, television, which Amin hates so much, brings him to a transcendental state where he & his God are unified. A twist to the story makes him embrace IMAGE as well as IMAGINATION.

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DRAMA, COMEDY BANGLADESH

FESTIVALS

Closing film, Busan (world premiere); Asia Pacific Film Festival; Cinemanila.

AWARDS

City of Rome jury award for Best Asian Feature Film, Asiatica; Best Feature, AudienceAward, Asiatica, Rome; Golden Hanuman Award, Jogja; NETPAC Award, Kolkata; Special MentionAward, Muhr AsiaAfrica, Dubai; Bangladesh submis-sion to Academy Awards, Foreign LanguageCategory; Awarded Asian cinema fund for script de-velopment & post-prod from Busan; AwardedGothenburg Film Festival fund for script develop-ment; Official Project, Asian Project Market, Busan;Official Project, Film Bazaar, India.


Mostofa Sarwar Farooki could be the next South-east Asian filmmaker to break out, The Hollywood Reporter wrote. in the review of his film Television. Variety’s Jay Weissberg wrote, “Mostofa Sarwar Fa-rooki is a key exemplar of Bangladeshi new wave cinema movement”. Mostofa is a contemporary Ban-gladeshi film director & screenwriter & the pioneer of an avant-garde filmmakers’ movement called ‘Cha-bial’. Television is his fourth feature with Ant Story following up, which was nominated for the Golden Goblet Awards & Muhr Asia-Africa Awards.

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SOEKARNO

DRAMA, BIOGRAPHY

Little Kusno often gets sick so his father changes his name to Soekarno. It is propitious as at 24, Soekarno yells in the podium, “We must attain Independence now!” He is accused of being a communist by the Dutch colonialists & is sentenced to jail, then exiled. He falls in love with Fatmawati while still being married to Inggit Garnasih. The Japanese army invades with the slogan of ‘Greater East Asia’ and defeats the Dutch. independence seems to be in the offing. For Soekarno and Hatta, cooperating with the Japanese means independence for Indonesia.


Hanung Bramantyo graduated from the Film & TV Faculty of the Jakarta Arts Institute. He won the Best Director award at the Indonesian Film Festival (2005/2007. He directed succesful romantic com-edy, horror & drama. Lately, he focuses on Islam-ic-themed movies. His Islamic romance, Ayat-Ayat Cinta (2008), had a 1.5 million audience in the first

9 days of screening. He prefers to be known as a director who ‘fights against stupidity & ignorance’ & does not feel that he is a ‘religious’ filmmaker. His films have been about both sides of the political spectrum. Though his right-wing films are commer-cially successful, he is intrigued with leftist ideology.

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INDONESIA

FESTIVALS

Asiatica Film Mediale 2014, Italy; Hanoi International Film Festival 2014.

AWARDS

Piala Maya 2014 Indonesia (2 awards); Indonesian Film Festival 2014 (4 awards).

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CAMBODIAN SON

Cambodian Son documents the life of deported poet, Kosal Khiev after receiving the most important invitation of his career—to represent the Kingdom of Cambodia at the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. It follows a talented young man who struggles to find his footing. After the performances end & the London stage becomes a faint memory, Kosal is once again left to answer the central question in his life: “How do you survive when you belong nowhere?”

FESTIVALS

Urban Nomad Film Festival, 2015, Taipei; Asian American Film Festival, Houston 2015; Seattle, USA; Seattle Asian American Film Festival, 2015; Center for Asian American Media Film Festival (CAAMFest) San Francisco, 2014; Los Angeles Asia Pacific Amer-ican Film Festival, 2014; Chicago Asian American Film Festival, 2014; Dharamshala International Film Festival, India, 2014; Cultural Resistance Film Festival of Lebanon, 2014.

AWARDS

Top Documentary Award, San Francisco CAAMFEST 2014; Special Jury Prize for Best Documentary, Cul-tural Resistance Film Festival of Lebanon 2014


Masahiro Sugano has a B.A. in philosophy from Cal-ifornia State University & an M.F.A. in film/video/an-imation from the University of Illinois. A Sundance Film Festival alumni, his accolades stretch from a Student Academy Award nomination in 1997 to his most recent award for his second feature, Cambo-dian Son. Masahiro is a pioneer in spoken word vid-eo garnering top awards for his short films 1700% Project: Mistaken for Muslim (2010) and Why I Write (2011). He launched Studio Revolt, a collabo-rative media lab with a prominent presence in Cam-bodia.

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DOCUMENTARY, BIOGRAPHY CAMBODIA

PEE MAKPee Mak had to leave his pregnant wife to serve in a war. There he meets & forms a close bond with 4 soldiers. After the war, Mak invites them home where they meet his beautiful wife, Nak & his newborn baby boy. But there is a village rumour that Nak had actually died while giving birth during Pee Mak’s absence. The four friends do not believe it & are determined to prove it wrong. But their suspicions are aroused when strange things begin to happen. In the end, they must convince Pee Mak to choose between love and reality.

FESTIVALS

Osaka; Fukuoka; East Winds, UK; Hawaii; Busan, Kyo-to; Austin; Chicago.


Banjong Pisanthanakun majored in Film at Chu-lalongkorn University. His short films & features have won numerous awards locally & internationally. His first feature film Shutter (2004) was Thailand’s highest grossing at the box office & was critically acclaimed. His other films include Alone, 4BIA & Phobia 2. His film, Hello Stranger, was the highest box office film in 2010 & has been released in Indo-nesia, Singapore & Australia. Pee Mak also became the highest box office grosser. He is now a DJ for 89.00 Chill FM talking about movies.

HORROR, COMEDY THAILAND

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MY MOTHER IS IN AMERICA & SHE MET BUFFALO BILLSix-year-old Jean is starting a new semester, where his teacher & bullying classmates give him a hard time. At home, where he lives with his workaholic dad, things aren’t easier. It quickly becomes clear that Jean’s life has been upended by the death of his mother. However, this has been withheld from the boy, who believes she’s on a trip somewhere far away. When a neigh-boring girl begins offering Jean postcards supposedly sent by his mom, he starts imagining her adventures & the truth comes out.

AWARDS

Special Mention, Annecy International Animation Festival, France.


Marc Boréal is a director & producer currently living in France. He started his career in film by working as an assistant director on TV shows, The Adven-tures of Tin Tin & Asterix Et Le Coup Du Menhir & a production manager for the animated series Babar & production designer for Rupert. He went on to adapt children’s classic books for TV such as The Never Ending Story & Kong: The Animated Series. My Mommy is his first animation film.

Thibaut Chatel is a director & producer hailing from France. At 25, he founded Torpedo, a production company & directed commercials & music videos. In 1991 he formed the Studio Animage team. The stu-

dio produced more than 400 half-hour animations, including Les Miserables. In 2003, Thibaut set up a new production company, Label Anim, specialising in animation. He wrote & directed several animated series. My Mommy is his feature debut.

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ANIMATION FRANCE

KOMANEKO: THE CURIOUS CATOne sunny day, female kitten Koma decides to make a stop motion film. She begins to write the storyboards, make the stuffed toys & draws the background art. Before long, Koma starts making her film — shooting frame by frame with her cute 8mm camera. But her shooting is interrupted by an obnoxious fly, resulting in an unexpected accident. Will she be able to com-plete her project? 3 short films of 20 minutes each.

FESTIVALS

18th Festival International Du Film Pour Enfants De Montreal; Chicago International Children’s Film Fes-tival; Verona Film Festival.


Tsuneo Goda firstly made a 5-minute animation, Ko-maneko – the First Step as a demonstration work of stop-motion animation for an exhibition. Well-re-ceived by the audience, the film was invited by many international animation festivals & obtained the Ex-cellence Prize (Animation Division) of the Japan Media Arts Festival 2003. Goda then spent 4 years to develop the short film into a 1-hour animation, Ko-maneko – the Curious Cat. The film screens together with Komaneko’s Christmas – a Lost Present. Goda also made By Your Side, another stop-motion an-imation short film & featuring music by the British band, Sade.

ANIMATION JAPAN

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TERBANG

SHORT FILMS FROM MALAYSIA

A story of 10-year old Ahmad whose teacher asks him to present a story about inde-pendence in front of the class. Ahmad chooses to tell a story about his grandfather, parents & kites flying in the sky. But what is the relevance of all this story to independence?


Linus Chung is a writer & a trained sculptor & painter. He started his career by making an anima-tion film, Demolition Frog which screened in over 11 internation-al film festivals. His short film, House, played at festivals such as Rotterdam, Pusan, Clermont-Fer-rand & Friebourg. He acted in Yasmin Ahmad’s Sepet & directed a feature film, Note of Love.

Mohd Hisham sees himself as a social media evangelist but still a village boy at heart & a service innovator who tries to transcend boundaries with his thoughts. He has held various positions in eBusiness & is currently Head of Social Media & Innovations at Ma-laysia Airlines.

Set one night in a spooky basketball courtyard. A young man arrives to have a game with his friends. He receives a call that the game is cancelled. The young man decides to shoot some hoops but something else is going to join him to play a very different game.


Edmund Yeo makes films in both Malaysia & Japan & has won crit-ical acclaim at international film festivals. He was the youngest Malaysian director to ever com-pete at the Venice Film Festival with his short film, Kingyo. He won the Best Asian Short Film Award at Busan with his short, Inhalation & competed at Cler-mont-Ferrand. His debut feature, River of Exploding Durians, pre-miered at the Main Competition section of the Tokyo International Film Festival 2014, the first Ma-laysian film to attain this honor & played at Rotterdam, San Francis-co, Los Angeles & Seoul.

Leroy Low Tiong Lim has directed & produced many music videos

3 DOORS OF HORROR

for Malaysian artists such as Vch-uan, Pink Tan, Kit Teo and Ke Qing. Most of his music video produc-tions such as Awake, Let Me Fall & Shuo Ai Le have received critical acclaim. One of his short films, Stand By Me, was awarded First Runner up & The Best Screenplay, beating many other finalists from around the world in the Global Golden Compatriot Award orga-nized by the Taiwanese govern-ment. Low has also participated in many video productions with James Lee, Tan Chui Mui & Liew Seng Tat.

Ng Ken Kin is a multi-platform content producer & director al-ways hungry for stimulants for the senses.

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RAGUTAli was a school dropout & became a master snatch thief & later, a serial killer. Ali did not realize that the cost of his involvement in crime would be high. But it is a sacrifice that he has to make for him-self.


Mohd Razif Mat Zain graduated from UITM Puncak Perdana with a Diploma in Creative Technology. He began to direct in 2013 with a short, Tali Boh Lat. His latest short is Saudara (Kin).

DOGHOLEWhen Malaya was occupied by the Japanese, 450,000 Malayans were killed & at least 80,000 died in deten-tion camps. This film is based on an interview with Wong Kum Peng, a survivor of the much-feared Kempeitai de-tention cells.


Wong Hoy Cheong is a visual art-ist. He has exhibited widely and has given lectures at institutions such as Harvard University, Ox-ford University, National Univer-sity of Singapore, San Francisco Art Institute, Goldsmiths College & Australian National University. He was awarded the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Creative Fel-lowship (2011), named as one of the ten trailblazers in Mavericks & Rebels of Asia by Newsweek & art & culture Leaders of the Next Millennium by Asia week. Cornell University named a scholarship after him for his work as an ed-ucator.

SILHOUETTEA tale of a mysterious lady who likes to meet men after they have watched a sexy dance performance.


Ravishanker, an IT industry veter-an with close to 30 years of IT-re-lated experience, is passionate about filmmaking. Ever since he watched Star Wars in 1977, he had the desire to be involved with the world of filmmaking. This led him to set up Silhouette Productions. He has made 6 short films. He produces, writes , directs, edits & sometimes acts.

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TELLING STORIES FROM THE FILM-MAKER’S CULTURE

WORKSHOP 1

DR LAWRENCE JOHNSON

DR LAWRENCE JOHNSON has been making films & videos professionally since 1983. His work in his-tory & culture has been distinguished through many awards, including 2 from the American Association of State & Local History (Remembering Uniontown & Steam Whistle Logging). His programmes for the exhibition Sacred Encounters: Father DeSmet & the Indians of the Rocky Mountain West received the Golden Muse Award, the American Association of Museum’s recognition for the best Audio/Visual pro-gram. His documentary Hand Game (2000) was funded in part by the National Endowment of the Arts, Folk Arts; it opened the American Indian Film Festival & played the Smithsonian’s Native Ameri-can Film & Video Festival & the Montreal Native film Festival. His film, three possible scenes, won Best Dramatic Short at the River Run International Film Festival in North Carolina & Honorable Mention in the experimental category of the Kansas City Jubi-lee. Video installations by Johnson have appeared in several galleries in the Portland area. Notably, Abandoned in Place as part of the Art Contemplates History series produced by The Willamette Falls Her-itage Foundation.

Dr Johnson is Story Editor for the acclaimed radio series Wisdom of the Elders, currently producing its 4th season. His personal feature-length documenta-ry, Stuff, received the Oregon Media Arts Fellowship (2008), previewed at the Northwest Film & Video Festival & won a special jury prize at the Florida Film Festival & Best Documentary at the Talking Pictures Festival. Dr Johnson received the prestigious Fel-lowship Award in Media Arts from the Regional Arts & Culture Council, honouring artists in the Portland metropolitan area who are the strongest representa-tives of the range & diversity of art in the Northwest.

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STORY & VISUAL DEVELOPMENT WITH REFERENCE TO THE MAKING OF HALAW

WORKSHOP 2

SHERON DAYOC

SHERON DAYOC was raised a Protestant, went to school in a Catholic institution, and grew up in the Muslim-Christian town of Zamboanga. He graduated from a Jesuit university with a degree in AB Philos-ophy & is an alumnus of the Asian Film Academy in Busan, Korea (Busan International Film festival) & NEXT Master Class of Tokyo Filmex. He honed his craft by producing, directing & writing several doc-umentaries, including his Asian Pitch (MediaCorp/ NHK Japan) “A Weaver’s Tale” which won a Certifi-cate of Creative Excellence at the U.S. International Film and Video Festival . He is the first Filipino to be granted a project by the Asian Pitch. HALAW, his debut feature-length film, won best Film, Director, Actor & Editing at the Philippines’ Cinemalaya Inde-pendent Film Festival which he produced, wrote & directed. The film won the Special Mention NETPAC award at Berlin IFF, Best Picture at the New York Hell’s Kitchen IFF & the NETPAC Development Prize at Asia Pacific Screen Awards in Australia. It has been invited to screen & competed at some 2-dozen film festivals in Asia, Europe, US, South America & Australia.

He is producing his 2nd film project, which he wrote & will direct, Women of the Weeping River, one of 6 film projects selected for the June 2011 Sundance Scriptwriting Lab in Utah. The project is a recipient of script development fund from Asian Cinema Fund & Hubert bals fund. It was also awarded a devel-opment prize from Asia Pacific Screen Awards & a production grant from Hubert bals fund PLUS. It was selected at Asian Project Market, Sorfond pitching forum in Norway & Ties That Bind – EAVE for 2014. He is currently in post production of a full length documentary feature, The Crescent Rising about the Moro revolution in Southern Philippines. Sheron founded Southern Lantern Studios, a creative think tank & production company for multimedia short & long film and video content.

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PROGRAMME

Workshop 1 - Telling Stories from the Filmmaker’s Culture by Lawrence Johnson (USA) @ Multimedia University, Nusajaya Campus*

11 JUNE

2PM – 4PM

Children’s Movie 1: My Mother is in America & She Met Buffalo Bill (FRANCE)

1130AM – 130PM

Children’s Movie 2: Komaneko (JAPAN)2PM – 3PM

Red Carpet Reception.Presence of Movie Directors, Actors, Actresses, VIP Guests, Sponsors, Consulates & Embassies

All guests will be invited to the seats before 6:30pm.

730PM

Opening Address by:

• Curator of Film Festival (Mr. Hassan Muthalib)• Founder of JSPA (Mr. Yap Siong Cheng)• Introduction of directors & stars of the movie, Cuak & brief address by Khairil M Bahar, main director of Cuak.

8PM

Screening of Cuak (MALAYSIA)830PM – 1015PM

Q&A Session1015PM

Shorts by Independent & Amateur Film Makers. (Ma-laysia)

• TERBANG by Linus Chung• 3 DOORS OF HORRORS by Leroy Low, Edmund Yeo, Ng Ken Kin • RAGUT by Razif Mat Zain• DOGHOUSE by Wong Hoy Cheong• SILHOUETTE by Ravishanker

4PM – 6PM

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*All events listed on this date to be held at MAP @ Nusajaya except “Workshop 1”.

Screening of Sayang Disayang (SINGAPORE) by Sanif Olek Q&A with the director & stars

12 JUNE11AM – 1PM

Screening of Halaw (PHILIPPINES) by Sheron Dayoc Q&A with the director & stars

3PM – 5PM

Workshop 2 - Story & Visual Development Work-shop by Sheron Dayoc (Director of Halaw)

5PM – 7PM

Screening of Labour of Love (INDIA) by Aditya Vikram Sengupta Q&A with the director & producer

730PM – 930PM

Screening of Television (BANGLADESH) by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki Q&A with the director & stars

10PM – 1130PM

Screening of Soekarno (INDONESIA) by Hanung Bramantyo Q&A with the director & stars

13 JUNE115PM – 345PM

Forum – New Directions in Storytelling, Production & Funding Involvement of film directors/producers

4PM – 6PM

Screening of Cambodian Son (CAMBODIA) by Ma-sahiro Sugano Q&A with the producer & stars

630PM – 830PM

Screening of Pee Mak (THAILAND) by Banjong-Pisanthanakun

9PM – 11PM

Closing of Festival11PM

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*All events listed on these dates to be held at Multimedia University, Nusajaya.

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