Director
Ghazi Alqudcy

Ghazi Alqudcy holds a Master of Fine Arts in Filmmaking from film.factory, an intensive programme created by the Hungarian film director Béla Tarr. He has produced more than 60 short films which screened at various international film festivals in Europe and Asia. In 2014, he produced a feature length omnibus documentary “Lost in Bosnia”. CPH:DOX describes the film as a collective poem about the act of filmmaking at a critical, (film-)historical moment. His directorial debut feature film, “Temporary Visa”, was awarded Best Film (Discovery Section) at the Asian Film Festival Barcelona. ‘Mungkin semalam sungguh bererti, mungkin esok tiada lagi’ is his second attempt in narrative feature film. The project was recently selected for Close-up on Producing: Singapore – Berlin, organised by Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, Goethe-Institut and Singapore Embassy in Germany. Ghazi has a keen interest in exploring daily life in Cinema. He enjoys meeting new people to hear what they did for the day as the mundaneness of life excites him. Ghazi is currently a Senior Lecturer at Sunway University.

Producer
Elise Chong Shick Chuin

Elise Shick graduated from the University of Nottingham, majoring in International Communication Studies (French) with English Literature and Linguistics in 2016. Upon graduation, she co-produced an eight-episode radio show Unpacking Malaysian Cinema at BFM 89.9. From 2016 to 2018, she volunteered for Southeast Asian Cinema Conference, Next New Wave Young Filmmakers Workshops, Asian Film Archive, joined SeaShorts Film Festival as publicity manager while working on both commercial and independent film industry as line producer, prop assistant and casting director. In May 2018, she joined Kuman Pictures as producer and has since co-produced six feature films – Two Sisters (dir. James Leel), Roh (dir. Emir Ezwan), Irul: Ghost Hotel (dir. M.S. Prem Nath), Ceroboh (dir. Feisal Azizuddin), Die Die Top Student (dir. We Jun Cho), Rahsia (dir. Shamyl Othman; Astro Shaw), Pendatang (dir. Ng Ken Kin) and Sabung (dir. Emir Ezwan) – all of the horror and thriller genres. She also produced short films Perhaps That Elephant Is Still Asleep (dir. Kuok Hong Yoeng; Taiwan Public TV Service) and Mop (dir. Joon Goh). Apart from producing, Elise Shick is also a film programmer who was trained at Working Title Film Curator and Screening Professionals organised by Japan Foundation Asia Center, Tokyo. She has previously curated films for Calcutta International Film Festival, Chicago Subtitle Southeast Asian Short Film Festival, University of Philippines Film Institute and Image Forum, Tokyo. She is one of the programmers at Cinemata Film Collective. Her writings and film criticisms were published by Next New Wave Young Filmmaker Workshop 2017, SeaShorts Film Festival 2018, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2019, Asian Cinema Education 2021, Asian Movie Pulse and Thoughts On Films.

Company
Cinemata Productions Sdn. Bhd.

CINEMATA is a community of filmmakers, producers, and artists from all corners of the world. We found each other because we all believe in the meanings and values of collective exploration and creation while slowly exploring different places on this planet. Bringing together the worlds of moving image, narrative, experimental, and documentary films, CINEMATA Productions aims to foster a community of filmmakers and artists dedicated to producing distinctive cinematic works.