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Yasmine bags first award  

Siti Kamaluddin receiving the award for Yasmine as the Best Asian Film in the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival 2014. Image courtesy of @NIFFFCongratulations to Siti Kamaluddin and her crew for winning the Best Asian Film in the recent Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival 2014 in Switzerland. Yasmine the movie has yet to be released in Brunei Darussalam and it has already been nominated for some awards regionally. The release date for Yasmine will be on 21st August 2014 in Brunei Darussalam and the same date will be released in Singapore and Indonesia as well.

Siti Kamaluddin who was recently in Switzerland to receive the award was very grateful for her team and she didn’t expect to win anything and furthermore, she was already contented on just being nominated among the other Asian movies. What amazed me is that Yasmine even managed to pip The Raid 2: Berandal in that same category and I truly love the Raid 2 because of its pure execution and artistic violence. Siti shared that Yasmine has the heart warming storyline as compared to The Raid 2.

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Siti was also shocked that it also beat out her favourite director Tsui Hark who directed Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon 3D in the award. Other movies listed in the Asian Film category were Kung Fu Divas (the Philippines), Live (Japan), Monsoon Shootout (India), That Demon Within (Hong-Kong), The Raid 2: Berandal (Indonesia), The Suspect (South Korea) and Young Detective Dee (China).

Congratulations once again to the Siti, Din and the whole crew of Origins Film in reaching a new milestone even if the movie isn’t even out yet in Brunei. Let’s not put pressure here now on what to expect on Yasmine the movie but let’s embrace the fact that we Bruneians are able to compete with other foreign talents given the opportunity.

The crew has making round visits to private and government schools in Brunei to a very warm reception. Currently Liyana the main star and her co-star Nadia are in Jakarta for a similar roadshow to increase awareness of Yasmine. With this news, I’m super excited and I can’t wait to attend the Premiere night of Yasmine the movie in August.

At the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival 2014 yesterday. Image courtesy of @NIFFF 

Siti Kamaluddin and Man Ching with the writer of Game of Thrones – George RR Martin at the film award. Image courtesy of @sitikamaluddin 

Meanwhile in Indonesia, Liyana and the gang made some visits to the local schools and talked about Yasmine. Image courtesy of @yasminethemovie