In What City Does It Live?

This year's Prince Claus Film Fund Grant has been awarded to Malaysia director Liew Seng Tat for his next feature project "In What City Does It Live?".

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Liew Seng Tat's first feature film "Flower in the Pocket" had just won its fifth award, Jury prize (Lotus du Jury) in 10th Deauville Asian Film Festival, France.

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It has been crazy for the past few weeks. Hubert Bals Fund has awarded 'In What City' a 20k digital production grant, along with fellow filmmakers Ho Yuhang's AT THE END OF THE DAYBREAK and Woo Ming Jin's THE HISTORY OF PINK ELEPHANT(post-productionn grant). Then followed by our ever talented female director Chui Mui's double win in Pusan. Hearing all these good news, my long dead great grandmother rises from her grave for 5 seconds and says "Well done! Now let me out of here".

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'In What City' is still in script development stage. Currently we are looking for fundings and have already applied for a few grants.

This project is going to be interesting and challenging but it will not take place without a proper budget because of its costly happenings and arts. Until we secure some money to get started with, it remains just an idea, dead.

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The very first idea of In What City Does It Live? is inspired by a real story of a Malay man who gathered men from his village to carry an abandoned wooden Malay house back to his house as a wedding gift for his daughter. This peculiar method of relocating a house is practiced in some Malay kampungs in Malaysia. Traditional Malay houses are built and raised on stilts. Some are not planted in the ground, thus making it possible of shifting from one place to another. This film deals with the cohesive spirit of the Malay community in a kampong and also touches on the superstitious belief of the Malays, who are in fact staunch Muslims.

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