Six movies by locals to be shown in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO: For the first time, six Malaysian movies, including the acclaimed Puteri Gunung Ledang and the award-winning Sepet, will be featured at the 48th San Francisco International Film Festival next month.
But it is short film movie-maker Woo Ming Jin’s entry Monday Morning Glory, described as one of the emerging new wave of independent films in Malaysia, that has received the honour of being among the festival’s 14 world premieres.
The organisers said the festival this year has a special focus on Malaysia, a multi-cultural society where the development of digital video and the growing sophistication of a new, cine-literate generation in the past three years has seen the emergence of an independent film movement.
Programme consultant Roger Garcia, an expert in Asian films and the emerging film movement, is responsible for bringing the six Malaysian films to the festival.
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GOING GLOBAL: Six Malaysian films, including Sepet, which stars Sharifah Amani Yahya and Ng choo Seong and The Gravel Road, directed by Deepak Kumaran Menon, will be featured at the film festival next month. |
Another Malaysian selection is Deepak Kumaran Menon’s The Gravel Road, a Tamil film about a girl’s struggle to have the opportunity for a college education.
The two-week film festival – from April 21 to May 5 – will feature 185 films from 49 countries, including 14 world premieres and 22 American premieres.
In announcing the programme on Tuesday, executive director Roxanne Messina Captor said the films for the festival reflected a world in the midst of great changes.
“Film-makers are taking risks and using the medium to speak out about the social issues that affect their country and the world at large, such as economic collapse in Argentina and the Enron corporation, political corruption in Peru and Denmark, the rise of US neo-conservatism and Islamic fundamentalism,” she added.
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