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Michelle Yeoh’s success masks struggle of Malaysian film industry
Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh made history last month when she became the first Asian to win Best Actress at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, raising hopes she might even take home an Oscar this weekend.
Yeoh’s second accolade for her performance in the indie sci-fi flick Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) marked another step towards inclusion in the predominantly white and male-dominated Hollywood film industry.
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Yeoh, a Malaysian of Chinese origin, got her start in the movie industry in Hong Kong in the 1980s. Other prominent Malaysians in the industry – such as Kuching-born director James Wan, the creator of popular horror films like The Conjuring and Insidious, as well as Malaysian-British actor Henry Golding, the male lead in Jon M Chu’s wildly popular romantic comedy Crazy
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This article first appeared in Options, The Edge Malaysia Weekly on July 17, 2017 - July 23, 2017
Director Chiu Keng Guan burrows deep into the minutiae of common themes like familial love, friendship as well as patriotism, and does so with aplomb. His most recent films, The Journey and Ola Bola, achieved something local politicians and government leaders have wrestled with for decades — bringing together Malaysians of every creed and colour.
“I don’t make films with the intention of attaining a certain goal. But when I see people laughing, tearing up and waving the national flag in the cinemas while watching my films, I feel extremely touched,” says the affable Batu Pahat-born director.
Growing up as an avid fan of football and the arts, Chiu pursued graphic design at university before fate struck — he was sculpting a horse out of cement one day when fragments of it fell onto a newspaper, right where it showed an advertisement for a vacancy in a local film production company. He applied and rose through the ranks from quality assurance officer to editor, before enrolling at the Beijing Film Academy later.
You will recognise a masterpiece from Chiu when you see one. He finds beauty in banality, be it a breezy motorcycle ride along the kampung roads, rolling cloud