Duck Rice and Love in Film

Gavin Yap, filmmaker

07-Jan-16 14:00

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Our guest participated in the 10th Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival and walked away with some accolades. He tells about the birth of the story and the making of the film. Are ‘Jagat’ released just this past month (December 17, 2015), and this film ‘The Incredibly Strange Tale of the Man Who Lost His Love but Bought it Back with a Packet of Duck Rice’ in close tandem, harbingers of good things to come out of the country?

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