Author: Jasmine Low

  • Throwback to a SBS Scripted Lunch & Learn

    🎄 Merry Christmas! While lounging this silly season watching John Le Carré’s The Night Manager on SBS On Demand, I thought I’d finish up these notes. Here’s a throwback from what I learned from attending SBS Scripted zoom webinar earlier this year. For context, SBS is an Australian public broadcaster.…

  • Protected: Mainstreaming equity in the screen industry

    Protected: Mainstreaming equity in the screen industry

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  • The Rise of Independent Filmmaking in Malaysia resulting from Innovative Funding Avenues (and the Ultimate Beneficiaries)

    The Rise of Independent Filmmaking in Malaysia resulting from Innovative Funding Avenues (and the Ultimate Beneficiaries)

    I am undertaking the Master of Arts Screen Business at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) and in the first semester, for the International Screen Media Policy & Finance subject, my fellow students and I were given the task to produce a colloquium on a topic that would…

  • Throwback: An Interview with STYLE Malaysia January 2012 Issue

    Throwback: An Interview with STYLE Malaysia January 2012 Issue

    I found this interview banter in an old email from 13 years ago with Nicole Foo. Throwbacks are great, but the key messages from the past keep you moving forward. STYLE Malaysia January 2012 Issue ***************** Nicole Foo: You wear so many hats! How do you juggle the many thousand…

  • New Malaysia pivots with ‘waddling gait’

    New Malaysia pivots with ‘waddling gait’

    I lift the ‘waddling gait’ from the best “Train to Busan” film review written IMHO by Maggie Lee, writer, film critic, film festival organiser and films made in Asia advocate. I find this phrase such a tickle, and Maggie Lee, an ingenue. Malaysia’s political scene has more dips and highs…

  • Fiction writing: The sound of a thousand secrets

    Fiction writing: The sound of a thousand secrets

    Swirling around in three hundred and sixty degrees, I am laser focused, a ray of light pinpointed on a slight slant, I am circling, firm and steadfast, I am fast, Warm yet hush, don’t tell as I can be deadly and they will be in danger, I am never warm…

  • What if Dementia and Type 2 Diabetes could be managed better? Or reversed?!

    What if Dementia and Type 2 Diabetes could be managed better? Or reversed?!

    Without exercise, bariatric surgery or medication, we delve into the use of natural interventions to reverse Type 2 Diabetes successfully reported by renowned researchers and doctors. Early this year, I visited relatives and friends in Malaysia. At dining tables all around my world there, from Thanksgiving to Christmas, Ponggal, Chinese…

  • Mapping out your business

    Mapping out your business

    This article was first published on 8 March 2017 and has since been updated. Good day. You’ve landed on this page because you are likely planning out a business plan, thinking of how you will embark on your brand journey and building a brand identity. Or, we may have been…

  • Fiction Writing: Treasures

    Fiction Writing: Treasures

    Sharon Bakar’s Finding the Flow creative writing group meet-up on 10 June 2023 took place for an hour. During that hour, she’d propose an activity adapted from Abigail Thomas’s Thinking About Memoir. I hope you will enjoy this flash fiction story titled, Treasures (download PDF)

  • Fiction Writing: What’s for dinner?

    Fiction Writing: What’s for dinner?

    Notes: A flash writing activity held on 3rd of June 2023 via Zoom by Sharon Bakar with Julian & Karina. We are writing from first sentence of popular books, and I selected this one: Dodie Smith: “I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. That …” (goodreads.com). Here are more famous…

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