Tuesday, September 22, 2009

What Matters Most.. is Family

Few days ago, some friends posted 2 short films/commercial clip at Facebook. Which I've seen and touches my heart and soul. I forwarded it to friends/family. These films are created/directed by the late Yasmin Ahmad, she's from Malaysia.




I did some researched on her and this is what I found at Wikipedia:

Yasmin Ahmad (July 1, 1958 - July 25, 2009) was a critically-acclaimed multi-award winning film director, writer and scriptwriter from Malaysia and was also the executive creative director at Leo Burnett Kuala Lumpur. Her television commercials and films are well-known in Malaysia for their humour, heart and love that crosses cross-cultural barriers, in particular her ads for Petronas, the national oil and gas company. Her works have won multiple awards both within Malaysia and internationally.

 Her first feature length film[4] was Rabun in 2002. Yasmin's films have won many international awards and praise from the critics and public alike. Most of her films have been screened at the Berlin, San Francisco, Singapore and Cannes (film market) international film festivals. Her films were featured in a special retrospective[5] at the 19th Tokyo International Film Festival in October 2006. An April 2007 retrospective[6] of her feature films was sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hawaii, and the Honolulu Academy of Arts. In Singapore, Yasmin is best known for the pro-family commercials she did for the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports[7]. Yasmin was inducted into the Malaysian Advertising Hall of Fame by the Association of Accredited Advertising Agents Malaysia in November 2008

SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA

She died July 25, 2009 due to Stroke. I don't know her until I saw these 2 short films, that made me cry each time I watched it. She's a genius that uses her talent in advocating pro-family values.




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