Edmund Yeo

Having a new set of awards to reward Malaysian Chinese cinematic achievements is a nice idea, especially considering the increase of Malaysian Chinese films in the country during the past few years. So we now have the Golden Wau Awards, which is kinda like the Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan, or the Hong Kong Film Awards in Hong Kong, except, this one is in Malaysia.

FLOATING SUN took only two days to shoot, and perhaps a few days to edit. But the process of trying to perfect it had been rather exhausting. The colour grading, the audio mixing, the music, they were tricky, because I am working on a genre that I wasn't exactly familiar with. The entire month of July has passed by without me noticing. The film is finally done. In case you don't know, FLOATING SUN is part of a horror omnibus produced by James Lee called 3 DOORS OF HORROR. The other two directors participating in this are Ng Ken Kin and Leroy Low. Yesterday, James finally posted the trailer of 3 DOORS OF HORROR, and it looks pretty great!

In my last post, I mentioned about the web series that I co-directed and wrote, AUTUMN DI HATIKU. 14 episodes had came out, so the series has already reached its halfway mark. What truly amazed me in the past few weeks was the media coverage of this series.

This is the story of how I got this beautiful Autumn Di Hatiku pillow.

On the 28 and 29th of June, I was shooting my new short film, FLOATING SUN, which is part of the HUNGRY GHOST FESTIVAL: 3 DOORS OF HORROR omnibus project produced by James Lee. The other two directors, Ng Ken Kin and Leroy Low had long finished their segments, so it was up to me to ensure that I wouldn't screw up. Once again, my cinematographer was Lesly Leon Lee, who shot my first two short films CHICKEN RICE MYSTERY (2008) and LOVE SUICIDES (2009), and later, my one-minute Prada short film " NOW ". Because of this, I couldn't help but find myself comparing the current film shoot with those from 5 years ago. One of the biggest differences nowadays is the advent of social media and smart phone technology. Cast and crew members can now easily live-tweet/ live-blog/ live-facebook/ live-whatever the entire process of the shoot. Of course, being generally open to such things, I agreed to let everyone post up videos or photos of the shoot as long as I look flatt