Malaysian films at TIFF

[Stephen Cremin]

I didn't catch the Malaysian films at TIFF.  Just a timing thing, with badge-holders only having access to single press/market screenings of each film.  It was difficult to see more than two or three films a day, and since I'll be visiting KL in December I gave them a miss en masse.

What TIFF did achieve is to make the Malaysian section something bordering exciting.  Generally when one sees a Malaysian film listed in a film festival programme one has come to expect a boring indie film shot on DV with bad lighting and zero interest in storytelling.

The strength of the TIFF programme is that it showed some films that the general public (in Malaysia and Japan) might want to actually watch.

Stephen


 
On Thursday, November 02, 2006, at 04:06PM, "naguib_razak" <naguib_razak at yahoo.com> wrote:
>--- Stephen Cremin <asianfilmlibrary at mac.com> wrote:
>> Where Tokyo does outshine Pusan (and
>> Hong Kong IFF and Singapore IFF and Bangkok IFF) is
>> in its Asian programme.  Among the major film
>> festivals in Asia, Winds of Asia has the most
>> breadth, least orientalism and most exciting list of
>> guests in attendance.  
>
>Thank you Stephen and everyone else for some very
>insightful information on the mechanism of the
>festival and the problems besetting it.
>
>As a Malaysian filmmaker lurking on this list for
>sometime now, I wonder if any KineJapaners who
>attended the festival would like to share their
>impression on the range of Malaysian films (nine of
>them) that graced TIFF in Winds of Asia.
>
>I know this isn't quite the appropriate forum for
>this, but it would be interesting to hear some
>opinions, if there is any out there. This is really an
>exciting and important time for Malaysian filmmakers,
>what with the amount of attention being heaped upon it
>suddenly, after years of indifference.
>
>I am myself not associated with any of these
>filmmakers, so please feel free to tell me your frank
>opinions. Or you could simply reply to me directly.
>
>Keep up the great discussions and exchanges.
>
>Cheers,
>Naguib Razak
>
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