News just in that Liew Seng Tat's feature debut, the digital family dramedy, Flower In The Pocket, picked up the New Currents Award at the Pusan International Film Festival. The press release goes:
Liew Seng Tat's debut film FLOWER IN THE POCKET won the Pusan Int Film Festival's New Currents Award and the KNN Audience Award.It shares the New Currents Award with 2 other films - LIFE TRACK (Jin Guang Hao, China/Korea) and WONDERFUL TOWN (Aditya Assarat, Thailand). PIFF this year increased the number of New Currents Award from one to three.
The New Currents jury comprised Dariush Mehrjui (Head of Jury, Iran), Nan Yu (Actress, China), Cristian Mungiu (Director), Goran Paskaljevic (Director) and Lee Chang-dong (Director).
Apparently it takes more than a thousand pounds of speeding metal to stop The Visitor ... zowie ...
tetsuo or tony stark, the choice is yours.
I've come to rely so much on your reportage of Malaysian cinema, Visitor, and it's good to know that--within the arc of your healing--you'll still be keeping us informed.
What in the heck are those kids doing?
Michael, apparently they saw what happened to The Visitor...?
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