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Official Selection 2023
Shopping Mall Boy
Genre: Human Interest, Coming-of-age Drama
Project Status: Development
Expected Shooting Location: Klang Valley
Director: Sebastian Ng
Producer: Lim Benji
Logline:
A journalist stumbles upon the story of her career: a teenage boy has been living within the nooks and crannies of a shopping mall, apparently alone and undetected. The unravelling of the mystery of the boy threatens to expose the shopping mall’s dark past.
PARANOIA
Genre: Drama
Project Status: Pre-production stage
Expected Shooting Location: Terengganu
Director: Ariff Zulkarnain
Producer: Omar Yunus
Logline:
A young drug addict has to overcome paranoia and get enough money to afford his girlfriend’s abortion, while an old boat driver forgotten by modernization unknowingly hopes for the drug addict to continue his legacy as a boat driver, in a village by the sea in Kuala Terengganu
Oh Dear
Genre: Family Entertainment
Project Status: Pre-production stage
Expected Shooting Location: Ampang, Kuala Lumpur, Klang, Petaling Jaya, Shah Alam, Subang Jaya, Cyberjaya
Director: Adrian Jeevan Williams
Producer: Patricia Sargunan
Screenwriter: Azhar Jalil
Logline:
Discover the true meaning of sacrifice and love as Yang embarks on a post-apocalyptic mission, battling assailants and mutated creatures. With the help of a trusted android ally, they defy the odds to deliver a vital capsule. One down, six more to go in this thrilling adventure.
Adam, Eva and Everything in Between
Genre: Black Comedy, Action
Project Status: Pre Production Stage
Expected Shooting Location: Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, Penang
Director: Dato’ Afdlin Shauki Aksan
Producer: Shahril Fahazmi Musa
Screenwriter: Dato’ Afdlin Shauki Aksan
Logline:
A desperate, childless couple trying everything to adopt a baby end up uncovering an illegal baby trafficking operation, bringing it to justice, and finding happiness in a way they never expected.
Sun Bear and I
Genre: Family
Project Status: Script Development
Expected Shooting Location: Sepilok, Sabah
Director: Raymond Tan
Producer: Low Kwang Hoe
Logline:
An innocent child develops a deep bond with a captive sun bear cub while he embarks on a quest to rescue it from Bornean forest to a conservation centre. Drawing strength from the sun bear, he navigates through the arduous journey and eventually emerges as a more environmentally conscious individual.
Collapse
Genre: Social Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Project Status: Pre-Production / Scriptwriting
Expected Shooting Location: Malaysia
Director: Jeremy Tan Ser Wei
Producer: George Yong Zoo Guan
Logline:
A group of former school mates gather for a reunion dinner for the first time since their classmate’s suicide, not realising that this might be their last time together.
PARANOID
Genre: Dark Comedy, Fantasy
Project Status: Pre-Production (Story Development)
Expected Shooting Location: Labuan
Director: Zafryn Zainal Abidin @Zafeilum Baginda
Producer: Azman Omar
Screenwriter: Nadia Khan
Logline:
After going through a traumatic experience, Izwan slowly turns into someone filled with distrust, which swallows his mind and soul into extreme paranoia, and lives out his life through an unlikely alter ego.
Hold My Gaze
Genre: Drama
Project Status: Advance Development, Financing
Expected Shooting Location: Taiwan & The Philippines
Director: Carlo Enciso Catu
Producer: Bradley Liew, April Batican
Logline:
Three damaged souls seek to mend their broken selves through the love of another. But no one is able to hold the gaze of their lover, under the shadow of the ever-present third.
IQ.Rock
Genre: Coming of Age, Drama
Project Status: Early Development
Expected Shooting Location: Serting, Kuala Pilah, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia and Kuala Lumpur
Director: Khairi Anwar
Producer: Lina Tan
Logline:
In rural Malaysia, a boy with illiterate parents loves to read. A new teacher arrives and sees his potential, gives him quality reading materials, which then help change not only his future, but the future of people around him.
