Category: Art & Culture
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The Rise of Independent Filmmaking in Malaysia resulting from Innovative Funding Avenues (and the Ultimate Beneficiaries)
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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…
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Throwback: An Interview with STYLE Malaysia January 2012 Issue
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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…
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Fiction Writing: Dancing to the gongs of the South China Sea
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Release date: 22 May 2023 Dancing to the gongs of the South China Sea (PDF) is an unfinished piece that’s a work-in-progress, a culmination of works explored in an 8-week creative writing class with Sharon Bakar’s Words on Fire to “Finding the Flow”. I’m immensely grateful and thankful for Sharon’s…
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Event: 18 years of Readings @ Seksan KL
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Readings @ Seksan KL began in 2005 founded by writer and poet, Bernice Chauly and has been carried on until its 18th year this year by writing coach, editor and publisher, Sharon Bakar. A well-loved event, this particular installation was the first one for the year and was well attended.…
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Review: Academy-award nominated filmmaker Baz Luhrmann & his ELVIS
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Source article: AsiaFitnessToday.com. Vivid Sydney 2022 presents renowned filmmaker and global storyteller Baz Luhrmann at Vivid Ideas: The Business of Baz followed by the highly anticipated Red Carpet Gala premiere of ELVIS – fresh from its World Premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Both events will take place at the iconic State Theatre in Sydney on…
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Podcast: A Merdeka Story: from little things big things grow 🖤💛💙❤️
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Warning: To Aboriginal & Torres Straits Islander readers, the following article contains images and voices of people who have passed away. Also streaming via Spotify | Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | iHeartRadio | RSS On August 9th 2021, International Day of the World’s Indigenous^ Peoples themed ‘Leaving No One…
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Yellow Face 😀
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Also published in Medium. BlueLotus invited me to the preview of a play – Yellow Face, she says. Neither of us read up on it, we were both busy but yearned for an evening out and with zero expectations, we met at 5:00pm on a crisp April evening for a…
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Spoken word
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In conjunction with International Women’s Day this year and their tagline #ChoosetoChallenge for spoken word poets, this one’s for all of you ladies! More on IWD 2021… And who has inspired all of this, I suspect? A young lady by the name of Amanda Gorman at the inauguration of Joe Biden…
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Whose land is it anyway if it’s not your Motherland
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Originally published in MEDIUM. In the next 12 minutes, we’ll head off the beaten track and traverse from Georgetown to Tasmania, hop across to LA for a minute then boomerang back to Sydney to witness how multiculturalism is a winning card for a country to achieve greatness. That, is my…
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Ushering in the Chinese Lunar New Year
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Wishing you Gong Xi Fa Cai! Happy Chinese New Year of the Earth Dog, known to display traits like loyalty, justice, practicality, kindness and generosity. All in all, a good year for everyone but requires some genuine relationship building and some hard work. Here’s a peek at Chinese New Year celebrations…