Freedom Flm Fest

MMC has been always taken away my first time and this is my first time again to attend Freedom Film Festival 2016 at 20th August @ PJ Jaya One. FFF has create since 2003 and it provided a vital platform for social flmmaker and human rights activist to showcase their films. This is a very great platform to advocate the cases. 

There's a campaign for Malaysia's Accession to the N convention Against Torture(CAT). I played the "wheel of torture" game and won a #ACT4CAT T-Shirt as a little gain at that night. 

Started from 7pm, there's 3 screening of documentary film: "Stories from my father", "Unlocking Bengoh" and "Voyage to Terengganu". Again, these films were impressed me, I cried during the first screening of the stories from my father and burst out  laughed for the last screening, "Voyage to Terengganu". The both director is creative as they used metaphor to present in the film and it makes audience laugh and laugh again. We also can see that they are a humor person during the Q&A section they answered some question in a funny way. 

By the way, The most impressed me film is the Stories From My Father. 





The "daughter" Ashleigh Lim is the filmmaker and she was inspired to make this film when Director Victor Chin and Chan Seong Foong encouraged her to share her father's story. I was shocked and excitement when I saw the Director Victor Chin and Chan Seong Foong name appeared on the credit list, they are the director of "Memory as resistance: Grandma Kong defending her village". I was like: Wow! Such a pleasure because they were assisted our assignment and we have an interview session and talk with them before. 

Back to the topic, I was impressed that Ashleigh Lim decided to discover her father's dark past in this film. Her father was detained from 1968 to 1974 under ISA ( Internal Security Act) for his involvement in the Labour Party. I can feel how hard the father struggle in order to survive during the screening.

After watched the film, I felt goose bumps when I saw the father and the daughter were walking to the stage. Lastly, congratulation to them for won the Malaysian Film Grant and special mention for Best Southeast Asia (Short) Awards. They deserved to be the winner as the film was a very impressive film.

Last but not least, FFF goes around Malaysia and Singapore as it will be showing again at Johor, Penang, Ipoh, Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore. I would attend again for the Ipoh FFF at October 8.