Malaysian Cinema

Immediately after the War, which the World War II brought a temporary halt to film production, the film production resumed vigorously (Muthalib). The Golden Age of Malay Cinema subsequently became known in the 1950s and early 1960s. The first Malay film was produced is not exactly known (Khan, 1997). The actual date of the first film production is uncertain as the beginning of Malay cinema in Singapore has a few publications date in the early 1930s (Khan, 1997). The year was 1933 and an Indian businessman named S.M Chisty to produce a film called Laila Majnun that was convinced by a group headed by B.S Rajhans (Khan, 1997). Rajhans became the first director that direct a Malay film in Singapore with Laila Majnun (Khan, 1997).

The production

Nizam Razak in 2009. It was a huge box office. The first 3D features was Nien Ressurection (Young Jump Annimation,2001). Hanyut is the most expensive film to ever shot in Malaysia and it is also first Malaysian film to be shot with Panavision camera with large number of cast and crew and cast outside the country Aziz M. Osman was the earliest to use visual effects in his films. Some of the films are Fantasi (1991), XX-Ray (1992), Seri Dewi Malam (2011) and Senario XX (2005). By 1999, digital technology began to make its effect among young filmmakers. There are also people that involved in animation and visual effect field such as Shahril Ibrahim. Plus, there are also people involved in CG animation such as Hock-Lian Law. The first film to be shot on high-definition (HD) was the parody Aku Kaya The Movie by Murali Abdullah in 2004. Digital-video (DV) feature film production had already begun as early as 1999 with two works of the Malaysian Film Academy (MFA), Osman Ali and Santosh Kesavan. Yusry Abd. Halim’s Cicakman 2: Planet Hiam and Cicakman attracted international attention due to its high quality of the CGI and visual effects, resulting in the production company (KRU Films) collaborating with Enso Entertainment on a Hollywood feature, Deadline (Sean