Friday March 19, 2010
Namewee seeks Finas funding for ‘1Malaysia’ movie
CONTROVERSIAL song composer Wee Meng Chee, better known as Namewee, is seeking funds from the National Film Development Corporation (Finas) to make his first movie titled 1Malaysia, reported Sin Chew Daily.
The daily quoted Wee as saying he wanted to prove to the Chinese Malaysians that Finas would fund people from their race.
“A number of friends in the movie industry said there is no way for a Chinese movie to get funds from Finas as only movies with 60% Malay language content can apply for it.
“They asked me not to dream of it. But I don’t agree,” Wee told reporters.
Wee, who is famous for his song Negarakuku, said he spent a few weeks to complete the script for his first movie 1Malaysia and has translated the script into Bahasa Malaysia.
He will submit the Bahasa Malaysia version of the script to Finas to seek funding.
Wee said this was due to the 1Malaysia initiative started last year by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak under which the Government has allocated RM200mil for the movie, art and entertainment industry.
Wee stressed that he did not mean to challenge Finas but to prove to the Chinese that he would be able to get the funding.
Should Finas not approve his application, Wee said he might try to obtain funding to produce a documentary.
> China Press reported that Singaporean film producer Jack Neo may be called by police for investigation.
Foyce Le Xuan, a Singaporean artiste who has alleged that Neo made sexual advances towards her, lodged a police report four days ago. She claimed that Neo made threatening phone calls and sent SMSes to her.
The daily quoted Foyce as saying that she received more than 50 prank calls.
According to a survey by Singapore’s The New Paper, 27% of the people in the country think Neo’s wife should leave him.
Other News & Views is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a > sign, it denotes a separate news item.
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