Article in the The Star, talking about Malaysia's film industry. The headline is a bit snarky, saying "Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia are getting ahead of us".
I gripe here about Thailand's Culture Ministry and its attempts to muzzle creativity and free speech, but they have nothing on Malaysia, which has a lot of controls on the press. Films are subject to rigorous censorship by a fundamentalist Muslim board.
So directors there have it tough. The subject of the article is Julian Jayaseelan, a producer with a life-long involvement in human rights work, and Osman Ali, a director schooled at a religious school in Kedah, and their film An Angel at the Window or Malaikat di Jendela – Malaysia’s entry at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
They compare it to Wong Kar-Wai's In the Mood for Love, which I watched recently. Not a bad thing to aspire to at all.
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