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Comment by 誰還記得北婆羅州？ on September 19, 2022 at 5:40pm

Dr. Tan Beng Huat: Singapore, Our Natural Source of International Tourists

Few months ago, I had watched a series of documentary on Singapore's nation-building experience in Netflix Channel by the title "A Frame In Time". Many good stories are shared through their heritage of old paintings, photographs & black and white contents from TV archive. One of them, "A Quest For Unity In 1960s " is to explore Singaporeans' desire to learn Bahasa Malaysia in evening classes, attempted to be a Good Malaysian.......

Chua Mia Tee, National Language Class, 1959, Oil on canvas, 112 x 153 cm, Installation view at the National Gallery

As a young kid in Southern Johore then, Singapore to me is just our neighbour town where my aunt stay. Many people of my generation who opted for Singapore citizenship have just retired in recent years with reasonable or even good saving. It's natural for them to be a rich tourist to visit Malaysia, where their relatives stay.

In fact, all these years, Singaporeans make up around one third of our foreign tourists (excluding the excursionists who make daily trips across the JB causeway). After the Covid-19 close down, other than visit their relatives and Genting Highland, their destinations also include many Malaysian places that they have never considered before. Just to name a few, weekend city tour to Sibu, Sarawak, Off Shore Angling trip to Kuching, home-stay in Kuala Selangor......these were in fact my youngest sister's records with her family and family of my brother-in-law's siblings. Our nature and culture is a blessing to them too.

Beside family tour, to my Singaporen nephews and thier peers, our seas are their diving paradise. One of them even become a coral conservationist of our under-sea world with funding from Singaporen government.

Meaning? Before we go back to what we have in 2019 which have witnessed international tourism hit record high of 1.5 billion, of which China's contribution is 10%, our neighboring countries are our hope. Other than Singapore, the number of Vietnamese's outbound tourists to South-East Asia is also going up. Afterall, to Sabah and Sarawak, tourists from Penisular is a ready market yet to be fully tapped.   (18.9.2022)

Comment by 誰還記得北婆羅州？ on September 18, 2022 at 3:41pm

〈翻新敘事〉 /陳明發

一青年的短片入圍歐洲一重要影展，我有機會先睹為快。美國公司此前簽了他另一部短片的故事改編權，我聆聽過其想法。兩部片的素材與背景看似不同，其實講的都是倫理危機——科技倫理；家庭倫理。前者讓我想起石黑一雄的《我想活下去》；後者則近乎東野圭吾的《麒麟之翼》。母題可以古老，說故事的方式卻可能一代代翻新。除了勉勵，我沒說什麼，有些事新世代本身發覺了更牢靠。我倒是向他請教了不少關於串流行業的事，這領域的成熟，敘事人會有更大的發展空間。（12.7.2022）

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《請别掛斷》

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陈策鼎臉書

在全球激烈競爭中勝出的十二部微電影作品中，《請别掛斷》是唯一的一部中文片。不僅讓馬來西亞製作在多年後再次入圍威尼斯影展，這回也讓落選的海峽三地中文微影壇側目。馬來西亞中文創意産業還是有機會的。

雖是短片，導演卻是給百分百的專業作品投足了資本。他在訪談稿裏透露了，其資金來自導演上一部短片的原創故事，被好萊塢相中簽下改編權發展成長片的定金。故事真的有價，這對文創人應該是個福音。

收到一些關心策鼎的朋友詢問，為何在Youtube看不見這部片子。藉這裏向大家報告一下，這部《請別掛斷》要到9月正式在全球三大藝術電影盛會之一的意大利威尼斯影展（另一個是法國康城）首映後，才知道它接下來會怎樣和觀眾見面。

對策鼎的電影有興趣，歡迎上Youtube看他25歲時贏得馬來西亞最高規格的寶馬汽車短片競賽大獎的作品HAWA。看年輕人如何用影像探討，在一個“生病”的社會裏，看不見膚色差異的孩子，如何麵對“無助”的存在。～～

有心的朋友會發現策鼎的電影，都從不同的素材去探討倫理問題。很多好故事，還是得由年輕人來說給同年齡層的一代聆聽才是。

青年的三弟是一位特效師，其公司最近在趕一部中國大片的後期製作，每一天都加班多四個小時。昨天週日還得上班，不過下午就下班了。他說特地一個人去看了一場戲，還去了一家他小時候常去的書店，回家後特別開心地說：書店還在，那個他過去常常坐在一旁看書的角落也沒改變。

那角落的一邊是外國翻譯文學書架，他沒提他每次背靠的歷史部書架。書店很大，以前爸爸媽媽去辦事，他就“躲”在這整間書店最少人光顧的角落，看他從其他書架找來的新書。

許多人所不知道的，不少好萊塢、中國與韓國的影視作品都在馬來西亞進行後期製作。他就在其中的一家公司擔任特效師。

新一代比我們強的地方，是他們和國際團隊一道工作的機會更多，視野自然也不一樣。這是很讓中國人羨慕的地方。 由於網絡工藝的發達，給串流影視頻道如Netflix、Disney、蘋果、Amazon等創造了全球性的“在線戲院”、“在線電視臺”，對新內容的需要非常巨大。無形中，也給全世界各個角落的影視文創人製造了龐大市場。

愛墾網在2009年辦的巴生創意節曾推薦兩位年輕導演胡明進 Woo Ming Jin和楊毅恆 Edmund Yeo。两人2022年合作的新片《Stone Turtle》也入圍了瑞士Locarno影展最佳影片。令人欣慰。

Edmund楊毅恆2021年的新片moonlight shadow 在日本上映反應不錯後，還獲得臺灣泰國及韓國的片商引進個別國家上映，所以投資的日本公司感到非常高興，已在籌備新的作品的拍攝。

Comment by 誰還記得北婆羅州？ on September 15, 2022 at 9:02pm

Murut’s 1930 New York journey going global

KOTA KINABALU: The story of Saudin bin Labutau from Kg Ambual in Keningau who became the first Malaysian – and for that matter from this part of the world – to visit New York in the 1930s and return to Sabah to tell his adventure will be known to the world soon.

Peninsula-based RYE Productions Sdn Bhd, noted for producing television dramas and concerts, has made a documentary on the exploits of the partially blind Murut. It would be shown on History Channel after the official launch in Sabah on Oct. 28 at UMS by Chief Minister Datuk Seri Panglima Hajiji Noor.

The documentary combines actual footages, dramatised re-enactments of Saudin’s life, including interviews with family members about their grandfather, who is well documented in the 1939 international classic by Agnes Keith, “Land Below The Wind”.

                   James briefing Hajiji about Saudin while Noreini (left) and Noorhayati look on

Comment by 誰還記得北婆羅州？ on September 15, 2022 at 9:02pm

Agnes devoted an entire chapter in her book to Saudin, also dubbed “the Murut Marco Polo” after his return from New York. It was she who recommended him to pioneer Hollywood silent era wildlife documentary makers Martin and Osa Johnson, when they completed shooting the movie “Borneo” after spending one and a half years on the Kinabatangan in 1935.The Johnsons wanted someone who could look after Abai, one of the largest orang utans ever captured alive in Kg Abai, during the ship’s journey to New York Zoo, along with few more orang utans, gibbons and proboscis monkeys.

The ship left Sandakan for the month-long journey calling at Singapore, Port Klang, Mumbai, Colombo, Capetown, Morocco, and several other ports along the way, before crossing the Atlantic to New York.

Saudin pointing to skyscrapers coming up in New York in 1938. during a talk organised by Martin to New York’s elite, Saudin remarked in Malay that he was surprised to see New Yorkers lived in concrete cages while in the Borneo rainforest, only wild animals lived in cages. – Pic courtesy of the Saudin household.

It was noticed that only Saudin had the special ability to calm Abai, which won him the ticket to travel to the Big Apple at a time when New York ala Wall Street was the “happening capital” of the world. This is what lends the documentary the title “Saudin: The Orang Utan Whisperer”.The documentary is a powerful story of not just the bond that developed between man and animal but also of Saudin’s internal conflicts and observations, especially of adjusting to the shock of being suddenly plucked out of the Borneo rainforest and transplanted into the concrete jungle of New York.

Among the establishments that supported the documentary is the Safari Museum in Kansas, USA, where the iconic work of the Johnsons is stored and Finas.The documentary also received the support of the State Government and Hajiji praised the producers for their extensive research and resolve to put Sabah on the world map through the documentary.

Abai the largest orang utan ever captured alive, who died in New York’s Central Zoo.

Those who were present at the briefing for the Chief Minister at the State Administration Building on Wednesday included producers Noreini Abdul Rahman, Noorhayati Abdul Rahman, Director Muhd Zaili Sulan, Norsina James Julius, a granddaughter of Saudin and James Sarda, Chief Editor of the Daily Express, who has done research on Saudin, Agnes Keith and the Johnsons. — EDITOR（Source: https://sabahbarunews.com）

Comment by 誰還記得北婆羅州？ on September 13, 2022 at 2:53pm

RM30 million to promote more local content on international stage

ByVeena Babulal - November 20, 2021

KUALA LUMPUR: The government will set aside an allocation of RM30 million for the National Animation Platform to put more local content on the international stage.

Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Aziz said the fund under the investment loan matching scheme would be operated by MyCreative Ventures.

This was based on the successes of Upin and Ipin, Agent Ali and BoBoiBoy that were not just household names in Malaysia, but famous across Southeast Asia.

He said agencies such as FINAS (National Film Development Corporation Malaysia), Cendana Malaysia (Cultural Economy Development Agency) and MyCreative Ventures were set to intensify various measures to revive the activities within the pandemic hit creative industry.
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"Under Budget 2022, a total of RM188 million is provided to continue initiatives such as the Digital Content Fund, Digital Multimedia Content project, Film Incentive and the Perkasa Modal Insan programme.

"Next year, the government will also provide the Riuh Keluarga Malaysia programme an investment loan matching fund amounting to RM20 million. The move is expected to provide 5,000 new job opportunities," he said at the opening of the Pemulihan: Pembaharuan (Recovery: Renewal) at Publika Shopping Gallery here today.

Tengku Zafrul said the creative economy supported 4 to 10 per cent of the productive workforce in developed countries. However, in Malaysia it contributed to lower than 2 per cent of the national Gross Domestic Product.

The minister said a large portion of workforce and participants in the creative economy were casual or gig workers.

"I truly understand some of them are badly affected by this pandemic – given the limited safety net within this segment of economy. Hence, last year under the Penjana initiative, the government allocated RM225 million via MyCreative Ventures Group that includes Cendana — to boost the resilience of the creative economy through a combination of soft loans, grants and living assistance," he said.

For cash grants towards creative and cultural workers alone, the government allocated RM10 million to Cendana which is intended to assist the livelihoods of people within the industry.

"This has been 100 per cent approved. As at today, we have distributed RM5.54 million of the funds to 554 creative industry workers. A sum of RM8 million was further allocated to Cendana under Pemulih and this has been 82 per cent approved," said Tengku Zafrul.

This year, he said the government expanded social protection coverage under Socso by including contributions for the self-employed and informal workers.

"This initiative will continue with a matching contribution of 80 per cent by the government and extended to cover nine new categories of self-employed which most importantly, will also include artists. This initiative is expected to benefit more than 810,000 self-employed workers nationwide," he added.

Comment by 誰還記得北婆羅州？ on September 13, 2022 at 2:53pm

The Pemulihan: Pembaharuan exhibition, which ends on Dec 5, was organised by Fergana Art in collaboration with Publika Shopping Gallery.

UEM Sunrise Chief Executive Officer Sufian Abdullah said historically Publika has always been aligned to the local arts scene and has supported such especially during the Movement Control Order with incentives including rental rebates and exemptions. However he said based on a number of businesses involving the arts that had shuttered as many were significantly affected by the restrictions.

"The first thing we did after the MCO was open Black Box as a performance space and we provided free live shows every weekend where every night we have two local artists performing on our YouTube and Facebook channel and we have also been accommodating them across the mall as well on a daily basis so that gave them an opportunity to re-engage with the audience. So that's been great in terms of footfall and the atmosphere that things are back alive again."

He said Publika also supported the arts scene by slashing rental rates by 25 to 50 per cent for such tenants and is keen to pursue this.

"Moving forward we are trying to reorganise our tenancy role and recompose the facility so that a lot them can get a bit more exposure and visibility and easier access to the shops instead of them intemingling with other retail outlets," he said, adding this would happen over the next three or four years.

Sufian said it was important for real estate companies and developers to support the arts as it was an integral part of placemaking and urban design.

"All we need is venue an event or space whether it is formal or informal and what you see here is that there is a formal allocation for performing arts to happen we have also broadcasted this on social media. It is important to keep this momentum going to allow this and we have to play our part."

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Comment by 誰還記得北婆羅州？ on July 30, 2022 at 3:17pm

陳明發·東西交融：文化敘事提供的選項

大馬有文化人才，畢業于八打靈公教中学的美籍女編導陳風錐立足好萊塢，剛剛贏得多倫多影展大獎。她對本地媒體透露，其作品在北美重要影展中贏得“最佳恐怖片”，原因是它結合東西方靈異氛圍，呈獻了新穎的驚悚體驗。

陳風錐的電影美學說明了，在文化敘事裏，東西方不但可以不衝突，而且還可能找到融合的契機。

我們願意借助文化敘事途徑來促進彼此的了解嗎？

人類目前的處境是：選擇文化交融，或：軍火交易，然後交戰。

我們需要新的方法，重新認識本身的命運。文化敘事提供了一項有效的選項。

Comment by 誰還記得北婆羅州？ on July 30, 2022 at 12:09am

美籍大馬女編導演陳風錐《幽幽大河》獲最佳恐怖片獎

美籍大馬女導演兼編劇陳風錐（Jules East），在多倫多國際女性節電影獎（The Toronto International Women Festival），以一部《幽幽大河》（River of Ghosts）贏得“最佳恐怖片”，結合東西方靈異氛圍，呈獻新穎的驚悚電影。

她小學念吉打亞羅士打吉華（H）小學，五年級後隨家長遷居吉隆坡，在精武小學畢業後進入八打靈公教。她也是本地工程師陳嘉瑞和蔡圖美律師的女兒，中學畢業後赴澳攻讀國際貿易，然後隨夫婿張基智赴美定居三蕃市，目前入籍美國。

現年43歲的陳風錐從小喜歡電影及創作劇本，這部電影由她編劇及導演，並從全球7982部參與作品中獲得晉級最後35部電影，贏得“最佳恐怖片”。

陳風錐通過臉書接受本報訪問時說，很高興能在這個重要的國際電影節平臺贏得獎項，雖然這部電影更像是驚悚及劇情片，電影是在加利福尼亞州一個海濱小鎮門多西諾拍攝。

故事情節講述一個男人的妻子失蹤，雖然鎮上對他持懷疑態度，但他私下正處理一種叫做“軀體體驗”的情況，並在鎮上尋找一位新的神秘醫生幫助。

她說，目前已完成另一部電影，正在安排在新加坡參與影展，希望有一天她的電影有機會在亞洲和大馬上映，與本地觀眾會面。

在這之前，陳風錐先後在2014年以《Lucidus》贏得好萊塢劇本大獎，以及2016年以《Into the Sand》再次拿下好萊塢劇本大獎。（29.7.2022 星洲日報）

Comment by 誰還記得北婆羅州？ on April 23, 2021 at 5:51pm

德勒兹·時間影像 ：運動影像

《我想結束這一切》中我最喜愛的畫面，也是時間影像的呈現，莫過於片尾字幕的場景：終於天亮的雪景中，高中大門前停著一輛被白雪覆蓋的車。

正是透過那不中斷、連續許久的長鏡頭，使人感到特別震撼，如同德勒茲形容電影《上海小姐》所描述，觀眾已“深陷他人的過往，且被過往所挾持、鉗制住了”。（2021-03-04來源: 正宗的黃小逗）

Comment by 誰還記得北婆羅州？ on April 11, 2021 at 1:13am

陳明發博士《文化資本存在形式》

根據特納的總結，布爾迪厄的文化資本所指的是: 那些非正式的人際交往技巧、習慣、態度、語言風格、教育素質、品位與生活方式。存在形式有三：

1 文化能力 (the ability of culture)：以精神和身體持久“性情”形成的具體狀態；

2 文化產品 (the product of culture) ：由書籍、圖片、工具、機器與詞典等文化商品形成的客觀狀態；具體顯現某種理論或其痕跡，包括對這些理論問題的批判；

3 文化制度 (the system of culture) ：以一種客觀化形式實現的體制狀態；就像正規教育保障著一個社會的日常操作一樣，文化制度庇護著這個社會的文化資本(參考:吳啟焰和王兆傑，2011，布爾迪厄的文化資本理論在旅遊規劃中的應用，《人文地理》2011年第1 期，總第117 期) )

（好萊塢電影《饑餓遊戲》劇照。電影是文化資本，因爲它受到版權等制度的保護；各種大大小小的文創實踐，包括文化傳播、電影教育、影展與消費文化等制度，使到參與者能從中獲益，這便是文化制度的初步解釋。Source：https://thecinemaholic.com）

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