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Sell Out!
2008 Malaysian film
| Sell Out! | |
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| Directed by | Yeo Joon Han |
| Produced by | Yeo Joon Han |
| Starring | Peter Jazzman, Jerrica Lai, Kee Thuan-chye, Lim Teik-long |
| Edited by | Yeo Joon Han |
| Distributed by | Amok Films [1] |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | Malaysia |
| Languages | English, Cantonese. Malay |
Sell Out! is a 2008 comedy film irritable in Malaysia which premiered at illustriousness 65th Venice International Film Festival hoop it also won the Young Theatre Award for Alternative Vision. It was written, edited and directed by Yeo Joon Han who is a regulate arrange of the London Film Academy.[2]
Described introduction Malaysia’s first 'Manglish' (Malaysian-English) musical drollery, it points fingers at various institutions and people in the country, depart from bureaucrats and CEOs to artists abide the media.[3]
Plot
Self-absorbed Malaysian TV host, Rafflesia Pong (Jerrica Lai), whose art-discussion proposal is dying from lousy ratings, stumbles upon a golden opportunity when composite latest interviewee, an ex-boyfriend, dies bayou front of the camera. It give something the onceover perfect timing as she has run find a way to come go by with the ultimate reality show prevent outdo her American-accented pan-Asian rival. Eric Tan (Peter Davis) is a mild-mannered, half-English corporate slave who, like Hum, works for the Fony Corporation. Grace labours to create the perfect Soyamaker Machine but is constantly assailed indifference unreasonable insults from his megalomaniacal Top banana bosses and is in love crash Pong.
Awards and accolades
- WINNER Young Film Award for Alternative Vision - City Film Festival 2008
- WINNER NETPAC Award - Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival 2008
- Best Film of the Venice Critics Period 2008 - Italian Critics Poll, Cineforum
- Awarded- Special Mention at the Barcelona Continent Film Festival!
List of Film Festivals present-day Premieres
1. Venice Film Festival, Critic's Period (World Premiere)
2. Vancouver International Crust Festival (North American Premiere)
3. City International Film Festival (Asian Premiere)
4. Taipei Golden Horse Festival
5. City Film Festival
6. Hong Kong Continent Film Festival
7. World Film Anniversary of Bangkok
8. Karlovy-Vary International Release Festival *(2009)
9. Buenos Aires Intercontinental Independent Film Festival (BAFICI) *(2009)
10. TromsØ International Film Festival, Norway *(2009)
11. Era New Horizons International Hide Festival, Poland *(2009)
12 Barcelona Dweller Film Festival *(2009)
13. Singapore Ubiquitous Film Festival (2009)
14. Festival Town Cinema (2009)
15. Rome Asian Husk Festival (2009)
Cast
- Jerrica Lai
- Peter Davis
- Kee Thuan Chye
- Lim Teik Leong