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I HAD first met Sri Lankan film-maker Rob Nevis in May 2000 when he was part of 20 or so film crew brought in by film producer and director Chandran Rutnam for the location shoot of ‘The Sleeping Dictionary’. His first job was a standby props person in the Art Department, and he had worked closel

IN 1963, the only few rare occasions when anyone anywhere else had heard of or seen Sarawak on the silver screen were short snippets of news and any world-shattering events taken mainly by news agencies and film studios such as Pathe (UK) and the BBC. They were filmed in black-and-white as colour wa

As it snares awards around the world, a Malaysian independent zombie film is becoming the country’s most anticipated cinematic release of the year. It’s easy to see why: as the world’s first zombie flick with indigenous Iban actors and setting, Belaban Hidup: Infeksi Zombie (Fight for Life: Zombie Infection ) is hard to forget. The Iban, a former headhunting tribe...