This is an article from a recent that I joined in Facebook, in memoriam of Yasmin Ahmad.So, for those who love Yasmin Ahmad works, please come and join us!
CREDIT TO:FACEBOOK-In Memory of Yasmin Ahmad (July 1, 1958 - July 25, 2009)
Our dear Malaysia storyteller left this world.
Al-fatihah.
remember the petronas ads? tan hong ming?
remember the movie she produce? sepet, love of a chinese guy and a malay lady. how they overcome all kinds of obstacles? followed by gubra, mukhsin, muallaf, talentime..
this group is dedicated in loving memory of Yasmin Ahmad.
share your experience with Yasmin!
let us continue to remember all her ideology and how she view life as!
thank you!
Yasmin Ahmad (Jan 7, 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.
A graduate in arts majoring in politics and psychology from a British university, she worked as a trainee banker in 1982 for two weeks. After that she worked for IBM as a marketing representative while moonlighting as a blues singer and pianist by night. Yasmin began her career in advertising as a copywriter at Ogilvy & Mather. In 1993 she moved to Leo Burnett as joint creative director with Ali Mohammed and eventually rising to executive creative director at Leo Burnett Kuala Lumpur.
Her first film 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 at the 19th Tokyo International Film Festival in October 2006. An April 2007 retrospective of her feature films was sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hawaii, and the Honolulu Academy of Arts.
COMMERCIALS:
* Petronas TV Commercial (for Chinese New Year, Hari Raya, Deepavali & National Day)
* Yuzy (2000) Petronas Road Safety Campaign
* Vas Dentures (2000) Celcom
* Tan Hong Ming In Love (2007) Petronas Merdeka Day commercial
* Family (2008) for the Singaporean Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports
* Funeral (2009) for the Singaporean Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
* Malaysia Video Awards for Best Director (1999) - Forgiving Petronas commerciaL
* Association of Accredited Advertising Agents Malaysia's Golden Kancil Award for Best Advertising Agency (1999/2000)
* Malaysia Video Awards silver award for Best Scriptwriting (2000)Yuzy Petronas Road Safety Campaign
* Malaysia Video Awards bronze award for Best Scriptwriting (2000)Vas Dentures Celcom
* Malaysian Film Festival awards for Most Original Story and Best Film (2005) Sepet
* Malaysia Film Festival awards for Best Screenplay and Best Film (2006) Gubra
* Berlin International Film Festival Grand Prix award by the Kinderfilmfest International Jury and Generation K-Plus Crystal Bear Special Mention (2007) Mukhsin
Contact Info
Email:
Website: http://yasminthestoryteller.blogspot.com...
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Thursday, July 30, 2009
The untimely death of a great Malaysian storyteller- Yasmin Ahmad
When I started this blog, all I had in my mind was a place where I can dedicate it to things that I love especially my craziness for Kpop, Jpop, Mandopop and Cantopop.This 'disease' has been with for years and i can even said it grew up with me.it was so hard for me because not everyone can understand my passion for my rare taste especially from a 12 years girl back then.17 years has passed and my love for it gettin stronger.
Maybe not many of us recognized Allahyarhamah Yasmin Ahmad's work but I'm one of those people.She brought a new beginning for malaysian commercials with her idea of One Malaysia.Yes, she has been preaching about one Malaysia way back then yet no one acknowledge it.I will always be grateful to her because she brought Sepet to grace Malaysian's silver screen in 2004.I felt so near to Orked because I saw myself in her.Like her, i also once had my own Ah Loong whom I loved deeply yet unlike Ah loong in sepet, my Ah Loong didn't dare fight for our love.He chose be a normal chinese guy who will settle down with a chinese girl.
The pain?Only Allah knew.But the experience didn't turn me to hate him or any other chinese people in fact it made my sentiment for one malaysian got strongger.yasmin's
work of art either films or commercial always exceptional and never fail to touch the heart of those who understand the messages.However some Malaysians hate her gut for telling the truth on the silver screen and bombarded her work with horrible comments till the extend of giving harmful threats to her.'Muallaf' premiered at Singapore's silver screen on November 2008 yet failed to make it in it's own beloved country.if it's too controversial for malaysian screen due to religious issue, then why movies like the da vinci code,warriors of heaven and earth,heaven on earth, the golden compass or jodhaa akbar made it to malaysian screen ?
I read back her blogs and i ended up with tears- she went thru lots of difficulties in her 'jihad' and I purely believed only Allah and her family knew what she had to go thru.What she thought about critics, people's respond, endless support from Singaporean, her films, all written beautifully and frankfully.Almost for the past ten years, Petronas always come up with beautiful and full of message commercial during festive season and month of independence and those credit must go to Yasmin.
She is the true icon of One Malaysia and her untimely death in the middle of One Malaysian campaign is a great loss.
To Yasmin's family, be strong cause Allah has a better plan for her and to yasmin's friend, please continue to support her idea with your own work.May Yasmin rest in peace and Allah blessed her soul.
P/S: I strongly believed instead of Shah Rukh Khan, Yasmin Ahmad deserved the Datukship better.
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