Amir Muhammad (director)

Amir Muhammad (born 5 December 1972) is a Malaysian writer and independent filmmaker.

Amir Muhammad
Born (1972-12-05) 5 December 1972
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Alma materUniversity of East Anglia
WebsiteWriting by Amir

Life and career

He was born on 5 December 1972 in Kuala Lumpur to civil servant Muhammad Abdullah and housewife Asiah Kechik. He was educated at the University of East Anglia with a degree in Law, though he never did his bar but rather worked in his sponsoring company's legal company for nine months.[1]

He had also written for Malaysian print media since the age of 14, notably the New Straits Times, where he had worked there as a part timer under several editors. He had a dedicated column there from 1995 until it was stopped in 1999[1] during the general elections as the column was considered to be "unhelpful to the government in its bid to win the elections."[2]

Amir took up filmmaking on the encouragement of film director U-Wei Haji Saari after interviewing the latter during his part-time job as the latter's film Perempuan, Isteri Dan...? was released in 1993.[2] In 2000, he wrote and directed Malaysia's first DV feature. Some of his works have also been featured in a number of international film festivals including the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival. Two of his films, Apa Khabar Orang Kampung and The Last Communist have been banned in Malaysia. A full retrospective of his work was screened at the 2008 Pesaro Film Festival, Italy. He is a partner at Da Huang Pictures.

He also publishes books under his companies Matahari Books (started in 2007)[3] and Buku FIXI (since 2011),[4] taking a break from film-making during this time period.[5]

Filmography

Films

Short films
  • 6horts #1: Lost (2002) - Won, Critics prize for Best Asian Digital Film in 2002 Singapore International Film Festival (SIFF)
  • 6horts #2: Friday (2002)
  • 6horts #3: Mona (2002)
  • 6horts #4: Checkpoint (2002)
  • 6horts #5: Kamunting (2002) - Won, Silver Screen Award for Best Asian Digital Short in 2003 SIFF
  • 6horts #6: Pangyau (2002)
  • The Amber Sexalogy (2006)

Books
gollark: Procrastination is the thief of Vreyma.
gollark: Oh right. Vreyma *and tide* wait for no man.
gollark: Being on a phone I can't use Ctrl+F, so it's going to take a lot of vreyma to look through this.
gollark: Weirdly, Wikipedia has a giant list of proverbs.
gollark: *googles for temporal proverbs*

References
  1. McKay, Benjamin (13 October 2005). "A Conversation with Amir Muhammad". Criticine. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
  2. Bissme S. (30 June 2005). "A rebel with a cause". The Sun. Retrieved 16 January 2017 – via BissmeTheSun.
  3. Tan May Lee (9 October 2010). "Catching up with Amir Muhammad". The Malaysian Insider. Archived from the original on 15 November 2011.
  4. Ling (5 August 2014). "Fixi Forward". Poskod Malaysia. PopDigital Sdn Bhd. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
  5. "Hitting the books" in The Star (Malaysia) - 8 April 2009
  6. "Freedom Film Fest 2016 | Kisah Pelayaran ke Terengganu". freedomfilmfest.komas.org. FreedomFilmFest. Archived from the original on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2016.


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