Heroes of Documentaries

By Julia Tan

November 2013 FEATURE
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Documentaries in Malaysia hardly ever break into the big time. Image Farm’s efforts in producing world-class documentaries are changing all that.Recently, Penang Institute hosted a rare cinematic moment – the airing of a locally-produced documentary in a Gurney Plaza cineplex.Heroes of Chingay was filmed in 2009 and documents the lives and rivalry between two chingay groups in Penang: the Penang Chingay Association, led by Chew Chian Hee (who sadly passed away in 2010), and the Northern Chingay Association, led by...

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Julia Tan

is a former editor of Penang Monthly. She remembers her time with the magazine with great fondness.

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