15Malaysia :The Son

A video for 15Malaysia by Desmond Ng about a teenage Chinese witness to a racially motivated assault is being driven to the police station. A quiet reminder of the dangers of inter-communal suspicion and conflict.

15 Malaysia

Here’s a really cool project that is being done by the same people who brought your The Malaysian Artist For Unity Video, Here in My Home . Headed by Pete Teo,15 Malaysia is a project of 15 short movies that have been directed by 15 young Malaysian film makers. The cast, it consist of celebrities, actors, musicians and high profile and often-controversial politicians.

What kind of films can you expect? Its a range of racism, the Mat Rempit phenomenon, freedom of expression, party-hopping, bribery, corruption, the state of Malaysian football, paedophilia, Islamic banking, or even humorous instructions on how to conduct halal cooking!

The folks are not releasing too much information of how the video’s will look but they have released a series of trailers which are available online! Check out the one of the 15 video’s which you can start watching from the 17th of August 2009

Now the interesting part… Who’s in the short movie? Continue reading »