Sell Out! List of Malaysian Cinemas and Online Booking Links

May 8, 2009 08:08 by author

Joon Han

Here's the complete list of Malaysian cinemas playing Sell Out! from 7 May 09.

Also includes links to online booking:

http://www.gscmovies.com.my/ns_mvpg.asp?search=sellout

Please try to watch the film this weekend, so it will have a better chance of survival :-)

Thanks very much!

joon han

Tags:
Categories:
Actions: E-mail | Permalink |

Comments (54)

Singapore, Buenos Aires and Malaysian Release

February 26, 2009 07:19 by author

Joon Han

Some news, some good, some not so great:-

Sell Out! will be in competition in the Singapore International Film Festival. It's a great honour for me as I lived and studied in Singapore during my teenage years. Our screening's at 9.15pm on 21 April 09 at the Singapore National Museum. If you're in Singapore, please come support us! I'll be there. And, hopefully, so will some of our cast and crew members.

I've just heard that Sell Out! will also be in competition in the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (BAFICI). If only I can afford the flight...! The festival's in March.

Finally, the not so great news. Our Malaysian release has been postponed, from March to (probably) May. I've learnt so much about dealing with Malaysian distributors these last weeks. They look down on Malaysian films. They draw conclusions and draw up release plans for our films BEFORE they've even seen the films! One distributor who has been in the industry for close to 30 years even advised me to copy Hollywood movies and not try doing original stuff. I stared at him and realised that I was living a scene from Sell Out! The entire distribution experience so far has been surreal. It's like someone's telling me Sell Out! Part 2 should be all about film distribution in this country.

Fighting against these people is so exhausting. Makes me wonder if I shouldn't write novels instead.

Tags:
Categories:
Actions: E-mail | Permalink |

Comments (36)

Happy Christmas and 2009!

December 24, 2008 16:13 by author

Joon Han

2008 has been great for Amok Films and Sell Out!

2009 promises to be equally exciting, with a list of great festivals on our calendar: Karlovy-Vary International Film Festival, Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival, Era New Horizons in Poland, Tromso International Film Festival in Norway, just to name a few!

2009 is also when Sell Out! will have its first commercial release, right here in Malaysia. It's something we've very much looked forward to since the beginning because we made the film for Malaysians. It's a little nerve-racking, though, just wondering what the response will be like. And then, it is very likely that Sell Out! will be released in Italian cinemas next year and that will be a record of sorts for a Malaysian film!

If everything works out, we should also be starting work on our 2nd feature film by early 2009. It's a film I've wanted to make for a long time, so I really hope the financing will fall into place and I'll finally get my hands dirty getting it to the big screen. I've decided to give it the working title of "Miss Piggy's Pomelos and Their Influence on the Gnat Pact People" ha ha. Some of you might know why :-)

I wish everyone has a rollicking good Christmas and an unbeatable 2009 (until 2010, of course, which will hopefully be even better)!

Happy holidays!

joon han

Tags:
Categories:
Actions: E-mail | Permalink |

Comments (16)

Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival (+HKAFF)

November 13, 2008 21:58 by author

Joon Han

I'm such a lazy blogger, ha ha, but I absolutely have to say that I was very impressed by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival (which is still running/galloping). We (me, Peter Davis, Priscilla [Peter's girlfriend] and Wai Hoong) were treated like VIPs upon arrival in Taipei. Well, the TGHFF team was scouring the airport for the Yeo Joon Han of our opening scene but once they came to terms with the idea that I look like me, they took great care of us. Our film was well publicised/blogged about so we had a sold out screening on 7 Nov 2008. In an ironic reflection of the film, the Taiwanese subtitles worked tremendously well, tickling most of the audience from start to finish. At the end of the film, came the tough questions, all the more tough because I attempted to answer them in my home-use banana Mandarin.

Even though it was my first time in Taipei, I felt strangely at home, probably because everyone's Chinese but also because there's always been some Taiwanese element in my life for as long as I can remember. It's the same with our trip to Hong Kong for the Asian Film Festival. All the more painful then that I had to struggle so hard to find the right Mandarin/Cantonese words to express my thoughts. I need to learn more Mandarin and Cantonese. What I know is insufficient for even the most basic discussion about film. Having Peter Davis (half-banana, half-European) and Wai Hoong (complete banana) standing next to me was not enough of a consolation, ha ha.

I wonder why Malaysians are not more excited about the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival and the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival. To me, it was like showing my silly film to my extended family and to old friends I didn't know I had. In Hong Kong, I was in fact showing the film to old friends I did know I had and am grateful for still having.

Tags:
Categories: Hong Kong Asian Film Festival | Sell Out! | Taipei Golden Horse Festival
Actions: E-mail | Permalink |

Comments (2)

'Sell Out!' in Pusan

October 8, 2008 10:06 by author

Joon Han


The 'Sell Out!' screening we attended in Pusan received wonderful response. Some audiences thought it was one of the best film at the festival. Again, lots of laughter, applause and crazy cheering at the end. We will be in Hong Kong next as part of the HK Asian Film Festival on 24th and 25th October.

Tags: hk, sell out, sell out!, pusan
Categories: Pusan International Film Festival
Actions: E-mail | Permalink |

Comments (1)

"Sell Out!" has premiered in Zurich!

September 29, 2008 08:02 by author

Joon Han

The screening went pretty well and there were, thankfully, laughter and good vibes from the audience. Although I had prepared a well-structured one-page introduction to rival my drunken introduction in Venice, ha ha, in the end I chickened out and just said:

'My friend drove all the way from Germany to see my film and he asked me if there's anything he should know about the film. I said, "The less the better."

However, I should warn you that "Sell Out!" has been accused of having "forced humour" as well as "shapeless direction" and being "20 minutes overlong."

All I can say is: sit back, relax and lower your expectations.

Thank you."

Tags: sell out!, zurich
Categories: Sell Out! | Zurich Film Festival
Actions: E-mail | Permalink |

Comments (6)

Joon Han in Zurich

September 28, 2008 02:25 by author

Joon Han

Thanks for all the great vibes from Padua :-) I'm finally in Zurich. It's a little lonely here... I lugged Reel 4 of our print here (to replace the earlier damaged one) and am waiting for our screening tomorrow night (which clashes with a gala screening of old "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"!). I hope it will go okay. Am nervous. And hungry. And sleepy. And poor from this expensive wifi connection! ha ha.

After Zurich, I will return to Bangkok to really finalise our soundtrack. I promise!!!

By the way, James Wong (our script supervisor and assistant-everything) asks if you guys could go to imdb.com and write some nice "user comments" about SELL OUT! That would help our film move up in google and cover up that one nasty review we had in Variety! In fact, if anyone has the time, please go to the Variety review and make some comments ha ha.

Thanks!!! I'll write more when I get to a place with free wifi :-)

Tags:
Categories: Sell Out! | Zurich Film Festival
Actions: E-mail | Permalink |

Comments (8)