Democratisation of Cinematic Space in Malaysia: Digital Film Activism and the Freedom Film Festival
Digital film activism as a popular alternative platform is used for the publication and dissemination of information, ideas, and views deemed too sensitive for the state controlled mainstream media. Such forms of activism have been actively carried out through the annual Freedom Film Festival (F...
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Han Chiang College
2017
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/38733/ http://eprints.usm.my/38733/1/Democratisation_of_Cinematic_Space_in_Malaysia-_Digital_Film_Activism_and_the_Freedom_Film_Festival.pdf |
| Summary: | Digital film activism as a popular alternative platform is used
for the publication and dissemination of information, ideas, and views
deemed too sensitive for the state controlled mainstream media. Such
forms of activism have been actively carried out through the annual
Freedom Film Festival (FFF). Held since 2003, the FFF exhibits films
and documentaries with hopes of spreading justice, peace, equality, and
democracy. The FFF exists not only as a site of exhibition and
distribution that bypasses state legislation and censorship in
delegitimising the oppressive forces of censorship and state control, it
also encourages the production of such films that would either be
prohibited or subjected to strict cinematic, cultural or political controls.
This paper critically examines the development of digital film activism
and the FFF along the theoretical formulation of Third Cinema to analyse
if indeed cinematic space in Malaysia has begin to become democratised |
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