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Excerpt from my new short film, SPRINGTIME NOSTALGIA 残香 9 Jun 2013 | 06:30 am
A new short film of mine, SPRINGTIME NOSTALGIA, is premiering at next week's Shanghai International Film Festival, followed by a screening at the Taipei International Film Festival in early July as pa...
Mieko Kanai 金井美恵子 8 Jun 2013 | 06:36 pm
You might not have heard of the Japanese writer Mieko Kanai (金井美恵子), but she wrote the short story "The Moon" that inspired my short film "LAST FRAGMENTS OF WINTER". I stumbled upon her works by acci...
Q and A session for WOMAN ON FIRE LOOKS FOR WATER at CineMalaysia 3 Jun 2013 | 04:00 am
On the 30th of May, the screening of Woo Ming Jin's WOMAN ON FIRE LOOKS FOR WATER was held right after the screening of my short films at CineMalaysia Film Festival (a film festival for Malaysian film...
Q & A session for my short films screening at CineMalaysia Film Festival 2 Jun 2013 | 05:23 pm
I have just spent three nights in Tokyo to attend the CineMalaysia Film Festival シネ・マレーシア , a great film festival organized in Tokyo to show Malaysian films. This was its inaugural edition. The film f...
James Lee uploaded his entire 2009 feature film, CALL IF YOU NEED ME 黑夜行路 on Youtube 27 May 2013 | 05:11 am
These days, the Malaysian director and independent film pioneer James Lee had been uploading his works on his Youtube channel Doghouse73pictures . Both short films and feature films, from his earliest...
Set photos from the Buddyz 2 TV shoot 8 May 2013 | 05:32 am
(On the set of Buddyz 2, with the iconic kombi van and some yellow umbrellas. The guy in yellow and seated in the background is actor Shaheizy Sam, reading the script) Last year, I made a passing men...
Discussing the short film medium 7 Apr 2013 | 04:11 pm
Back in January, I was on Kenneth Chaw's The Star article "Short Films starting to appeal to a bigger audience", discussing about my thoughts on short films . Filmmaker James Lee and Youtube sensation...
WATCH: James Lee's award-winning film, THE BEAUTIFUL WASHING MACHINE 6 Apr 2013 | 03:00 pm
The Malaysian director James Lee's Youtube channel, doghouse73pictures had become increasingly interesting recently. Not only is he uploading his short films online, both new and old, he's also upload...
RIP Roger Ebert 5 Apr 2013 | 06:22 am
I woke up to sad news of Roger Ebert 's passing. Growing up as a film lover was sometimes very lonely, because I found it difficult to have any long and in-depth discussions about cinema with those a...
Shibuya at dusk captivates me 4 Apr 2013 | 06:20 pm
I was in Shibuya yesterday evening before I headed off to Haneda Airport for my flight back to Malaysia. Even though I have been in Tokyo for five years, I still find myself discovering something new...
