Malaysian Film Festival in Taiwan Lecture Series (5) - Screening and Director’s Talk on Jagat : Shanjhey Kumar Perumal

2019-04-28

Malaysian Film Festival in Taiwan Lecture Series (5)
Screening and Director’s Talk on Jagat : Shanjhey Kumar Perumal
Tine：28th Apr (Sun), 12:30pm-3:30pm
Venue：Film Studies Center Theater, 3rd Floor, HA Building 2, National Chiao Tung University
Moderator：Joyce C.H. Liu
*Lecture in English
 
Jagat
Shanjhey Kumar Perumal/ 2015/ DCP/ 76mins/ Tamil/ English and Chinese Subtitles
 
Jagat is a coming-of-age story about a boy growing up in a community of Tamil immigrants in Malaysia during the 1990s. Appoy, a spirited kid who would rather watch gangster flicks and make prank calls than memorize his multiplication tables. Desperately trying to keep his son on the straight path, Appoy's hard-working father becomes increasingly abusive as the boy is inexorably drawn to the criminal lifestyle of his uncle, a henchman for a local Malaysian gang.

Director’s Bio:
Shanjhey Kumar Perumal is a Malaysian director and writer with over 13 years of experience in the creative media industry. He earns a Communication degree in Film and Broadcasting from Universiti Sains Malaysia. Over the years, he has been involved in a diverse array of media ranging from documentaries and short films to musicals and children’s programmes. His short visual essay, ‘Thaipoosam’, was screened at the 36th International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Netherlands. In 2009, his short film ‘Machai’ was awarded the Grand Prize at the BMW
Shorties Malaysia. Jagat (2015) is his first feature, which won the Best film in both Malaysian Film Festival (FFM) and KL Critiques award 2016.

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