Don't get me wrong, this is not another online personality test like What Flower Are You. This is the title of a Malaysian/Japanese co-production film project that won the top Pusan Award at the recent 13th Pusan International Film Fest!
Yasmin Ahmad had once again made us so proud to come up tops out of 300 entries and 30 finalists to be awarded a whopping $20,000 seed money to proceed with the film project.
Thanks to Kousuke Ono's (the nephew of Yoko Ono) eye for recognising what a true gem Yasmin is, and of course his determination to strike a collaboration with her, what Yasmin might initially thought of the invitation from Ono-san as a mere friendly gesture eventually became reality.
Inspired by her minor Japanese origins, Yasmin submitted to Ono a simple sypnosis about a Malay girl by the name of Inom, whose ailing grandmother is a Japanese, prompted her to find her way to Japan to learn about her roots. Little did she know that this simple sypnosis had not just brought her the opportunity to embark on a international film collaboration, but also a ticket to the Asia's biggest film festival and capital of $20,000 for the film!
Congrats, Kak Yasmin! As you aptly put it, this is really a sudden, unexpected and unplanned blossoming of one Forget-Me-Not!
So I will have another film under her belt to look forward to.
On another note, Muallaf is finally showing on the silver screen, albeit it being in Singapore first, yet again!
2 comments:
Oh? U alwaz watch Malay movie?
no lar not always, but yasmin's movie is different from usual malay movie, hers is "malaysian movie'...hehe
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