S'kali Opens The 2nd London Filmmakers Convention

Perantauan Entertainment is pleased to announce that S'kali will be opening the 2nd London Filmmakers Convention on 07/12/2007. Whilst the organisers have misspelt the title of the film and writer/director Arivind Abraham's surname (they have promised to rectify it on their website) we are pleased nonetheless to finally have the film shown in London which is Arivind's second home and place of work.

The screening is free and open to all members of the public.

Here are the details:

Location: Westbourne Studios, 242 Acklam Road, London W10 5JJ
Time: 1800hrs
Westbourne Studios Website

Festival Website

Arivind Abraham will be there to introduce the film.

So to all of you Malaysians who are in London at the moment, c'mon down if you did not have a chance to catch it when it was on back in KL. Also, you will be getting the see the movie uncensored unlike your mates who watched it back home!

Perantauan Entertainment

One Year On

It's been one year now since we premiered S'kali in KL and 2007 has proven to be a difficult and disappointing year somewhat for the team.

We look forward to having some news for all of you soon.

Perantauan Entertainment

S'kali Available as Digital Download on Firecracker Media

Hi all,

We just wanted to announce that S'kali is now also available on demand from Firecracker Media. Also featured is a great interview with writer/director Arivind Abraham about the process of getting the movie on its feet.

All this can be found:Here

The interview can be found: Here

And to our fans in Malaysia who can't purchase the digital downloads at Jaman and Firecracker due to licensing reasons, a HDDVD and regular DVD will soon be available on demand via Amazon.com. We are working very hard on getting a local DVD available as well, but it has proven to be very difficult for us being a small movie and all.

Thank you all once again for the continuing support, and we promise, soon we will have an announcement about new projects!

The S'kali Team

S'kali Available as Digital Download on Jaman

Hi all!

Would just like to inform everyone that S'kali is now available as a digital download from Jaman (http://www.jaman.com/). You can either rent the movie for $1.99 or purchase it for $4.99. Prices quoted are in USD.

Just search for it under the genre of "Drama".

So for all you guys who have been asking to see it and were not in Malaysia at the time of release, get downloading!

Cheers,
Arivind Abraham

Popcorn & Soda

Hey all, KLue magazine is hosting a series of screenings called Popcorn & Soda beginning this Sunday and every 2nd Sunday from then on..Check out the attached poster for all the screening dates and movies..

Do come for all the screenings (especially the one on June the 10th) and support the event. Earlybirds get free popcorn & soda. Make a day (or a date) out of it..!

S'kali @ Towson University, Maryland USA

Hi all,

Last night, Towson Uni faculty and students had the opportunity to watch S'kali, followed by a post-screening Q&A with writer/director Arivind Abraham & cameraman Lim Benji. Attended by about 30 people, here are some pictures from the event.



Questions fielded included ones on racial politics and production methods.



Comments from the audience touched upon the way they liked the naturalistic feel of the actors, and the lighting in the cars.



So all in all it was a good night, followed by dinner and drinks with some people in the audience who had some further questions!

Perantauan Entertainment

Coming Soon.

Hey All,

So it has been a long time since we have posted anything on the blog. There have been reasons for this, one being most of us on the team have been very busy but also because we had nothing really significant to talk about. But we figured it would be a good time to post an update and have a little chat with you all.

Perhaps it would be good to start with what we HOPE to be making this year. We stress the word HOPE as post-S'kali, things are still a little up in the air. But anyways, first off, here is the movie we HOPE to make maybe at the end of this year:



Working Title: “Captain Bangla”

TAGLINE: GO BANGLA GO!

Captain Bangla tells the story of Khaled, a young Bangladeshi man who comes to Malaysia with the hope of finding a better life. Unfortunately the stories of an Asian utopia fail to be true, and in an ironic twist of fate Khaled finds himself working for another immigrant: his Indonesian boss in a fabric store in downtown KL.

Alone and despondent, his only solace is the company of his neighbour-the strange, silent Sikh known as The Colonel-as well as the love he secretly harbours for the local girl who comes into the store ever so often.

One night, Khaled stumbles upon a snatch theft taking place and inadvertently stops it. From that moment on he is convinced he has found his destiny, and decides to prowl the streets fighting crime as Captain Bangla, accompanied by his sidekick The Colonel.

But Captain Bangla is no superhero, and soon he stumbles on a crime so big, it may just be the undoing of his destiny.

An absurdly hilarious yet heart-warming tale that is more Don Quixote than Captain America, Captain Bangla is a story of courage, friendship and making a home in a foreign land.


So that's the movie we hope to be making very soon as a follow up to S'kali.


We've also been very busy pitching some ideas for telly which we hope to get greenlit, and allow us at Perantauan Entertainment to break into TV sometime this year as well. Here's a taste of some of the ideas we've been pitching:

Drama:
THE OLD BOYS
CREATED BY KEITH LEONG
Three Boys: One School; Three Destinies: One Nation.



Comedy:
Country Club (Working Title)
CREATED BY BAHIR YUESUFF
Step into the Kota Bangsawan Country Club, a world of glitz, glamour and utter chaos…


Let us stress that at this point of time, we do not know if any of these are going to get greenlit and we're just working our darndest to make it happen. We are however busy with work left on S'kali which includes getting our long-delayed DVD/VCD release off the ground, sorting out some internet distribution deals, and special one off screenings around the world like in Towson, Maryland USA this March, Cyprus sometime soon and some other dates being worked on.

So there you go! That's stuff that we hope to have on our plate this year and if all goes well, it will be stuff you'll all get to watch come 2008!

Perantauan Entertainment

Coming To America!

Perantauan Entertainment are extremely excited that S'kali will be shown at Towson University, Maryland USA! The screening will take place on the 30th of March and is being organised by the Motion Picture Association of the uni.

Writer/Director Arivind Abraham and Cameraman Lim Benji will be in attendance and will participate in a post-screening Q&A. Students on Towson's film degree have already had a chance to view S'kali as part of their World CInema module, and liked it enough to organise a bigger screening for the rest of the uni.

We will most definitely get a post up letting you all know how the screening went down, including pictures from the screening itself.

Perantauan Entertainment

S'kali Screening in Athens

S'kali was privileged to have an exclusive one-night-only screening at Hoxton in Gazi, Athens, thanks to Director of Photography Dimitri Kotselis who DJs at the venue and who took the time to organise the event. Despite playing to a Greek crowd unfamiliar with the many Malaysian references in the film, we were surprised to still receive good feedback from the 40-odd members of the invited audience.

By a lucky twist of fate, media artist Christopher Malapitan also happened to walk in to the bar during the last half hour of S'kali and expressed interest in having the film screened in Cyprus. We are now in discussions to arrange the event some time in the near future.

Arivind, Dimitri and Hoxton owner George preparing the white screen
Dimitri double-checking the player and projector
Chatting with audiences after the show

The S'kali Team