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Two stars and the moon.
"Mahesh look," she said, pointing to the night sky. "Because I'm lonely, the night sticks her tongue out at me... half moon."
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"It's a wrap!"
On the night of August 29th, our 3rd Assistant Director Sharifah Amani stood on a chair and announced, "It's a wrap!" After nearly 2 months of intense rehearsals, principal shooting began on August...
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When stars fall asleep.
In the script, I had written, "Melur looks clean and showered, dressed in her usual boy-style pyjamas. She’s lying on the floor of the living room. Mahesh is also lying on the floor. They both have a...
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And he doesn't even know how good he is.
Even when we first auditioned Mohd Syafie Naswip (now more commonly known as Mukhsin) two and a half years ago, we knew the boy had this intense energy inside him. The smile was kind and gentle, but...
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Malaysian/Japanese co-production film project wins the top award in Pusan,...
6 Oct 2008 13:42"Malaysian director Yasmin Ahmad's 'Forget-Me-Not', which is being produced by Japan's Wa Entertainment, picked up the $20,000 Pusan Award at the closing of the Pusan Promotion Plan...
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The sudden, unexpected, and unplanned blossoming of one "Forget-Me-Not".
In the autumn of 2006, Sharifah Amani and I were invited to attend a festival called "Paris Cinema". They were screening a retrospective of my films, and therefore offered to sponsor our flight and...
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Without Make-Up!
The holy month of Ramadhan can change you.During the last one, I was asked by Evangeliss Yh-Hwong to pose for some portraits, as part of a series featuring everyone involved in the making of our "Here...
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What the Singaporeans will see.
A friend told me recently that one local paper attacked me for always showing my films in Singapore before Malaysia. I didn't read the article, but apparently they accused me of being disloyal, or...
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What Malaysians will see.
Towards the end of the recent holy month of Ramadan, just three days before Hari Raya, my crew and I headed for Ipoh, to shoot the commercial you see here.We had to wake up for sahur at five every...
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An email from Japan.
"Dear Yasmin,Sorry for the sudden email. This is Sawaka Kawashima, Pamela's friend who visited Ipoh during the filming of 'Talentime'.I had wanted to express my gratitude for letting us watch the...
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"Muallaf" just won a prize in Japan!
Praise the good Lord almighty.As the older members of The Storyteller Club will remember, "Sepet" won the Best Asian Film award at the 18th Tokyo International Film Festival.This year, that section...
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The opening frame for "Talentime".
Can my Tamil-reading brothers and sisters help explain what this says to everyone here?
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Nice way to end the week.
It's called the Anugerah Khas Juri (Special Jury Prize), and it's really heavy because it's made of solid pewter.As far as I could tell from the dedication/citation video which they played before...
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