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Trailer: 'Hawa'

Garang Pictures & Big EyEs Entertainment present the Official Trailer of HAWA, an IKAL MAYANG film.

Acted & directed by Sharifah Amani with Shera Aiyob, Zahiril Adzim & Azma Aizal Yusoof.

(For full trailer of other short films from Ikal Mayang, visit WOMEN:girls Facebook page)

Note: All films featured during the screening have English subtitles.

Trailer: 'Odah'

Garang Pictures & big EyEs Entertainment present the official trailer of ODAH, an IKAL MAYANG film.

Directed and written by Junaidah M Nor with Ameera Ramlee, Ted Adzelan, Mislina Mustaffa and many more.

(For full trailer of other short films from Ikal Mayang, visit WOMEN:girls Facebook page)

Note: All films featured during the screening have English subtitles.

Trailer: 'SHE'

Garang Pictures & big EyEs Entertainment present the official trailer of SHE, an IKAL MAYANG film.

Directed by Ida Nerina and written by Rachael Malai Ali and Ida Nerina featuring special guests.

(For full trailer of other short films from Ikal Mayang, visit WOMEN:girls Facebook page)

Note: All films featured during the screening has English subtitles.

Trailer: 'Berat Sebelah'

Garang Pictures & big EyEs Entertainment present the official trailer of BERAT SEBELAH, an IKAL MAYANG film.

Directed and written by Melissa Saila with Ria Irawan, Soefira Jaafar and Shantini Venugopal.

(For full trailer of other short films from Ikal Mayang, visit WOMEN:girls Facebook page)

Note: All films featured during the screening has English subtitles.

Trailer: 'All About Deflowering'

Garang Pictures & big EyEs Entertainment present the official trailer of ALL ABOUT DEFLOWERING, an IKAL MAYANG film.

Directed and written by Mislina Mustaffa with Sherry Abdullah.

(For full trailer of other short films from Ikal Mayang, visit WOMEN:girls Facebook page)

Note: All films featured during the screening has English subtitles.

'Ikal Mayang' short film project for International Women's Day '13

Featured Films

Below are shorts films which will be featured during the Ikal Mayang screening at Monash!

All films featured will have an English subtitle for the benefit of our non-Malay speaking friends! :)

(Photos are copyright of WOMEN:girls Facebook page.)

The inspiration behind Ikal Mayang

Directors of Ikal Mayang

“Female directors telling women’s stories” is a straightforward concept, yet the fruit of Ikal Mayang is something far more layered and complex. With an ambitious 15 short films in the series, Ikal Mayang’s diverse collective serves as an intricate exploration of the female experience in a Malaysian setting.

Ikal Mayang in the Malay language means long, wavy black hair and refers to the idiom: ‘Rambut sama hitam, hati lain-lain’. Our hair may be the same shade of black, but our hearts hold different stories.
Ikal Mayang poster

Because of the usual lack of female representation in the local film and TV industry, it’s refreshing to see that women were involved in all stages of Ikal Mayang’s conception. The directors were handpicked by Low Ngai Yuen and Lee Su May of Garang Pictures, along with creative director of Big Eyes Entertainment Ida Nerina. Among the chosen were women in the industry who have worked on both sides of the camera. There is criticism over the fact that most of the women chosen were actresses and not directors themselves but the purpose of this project is for women to tell women’s stories; and there are a few notable directorial debuts here to look out for.

Ikal Mayang follows this year’s International Women’s Day theme “The Gender Agenda: Gaining Momentum” with the aim to increase female representation in the media as well as to challenge the way women are portrayed in the mainstream. These short films touch on various themes: love, sexuality, body image, female relationships and women’s health.

(An excerpt from Kakiseni blog. For full article, click here.)