About Emperor - 7min. Making Of

"Zero budget, zero damage." With almost no budget we won the Feature Category of Portable Film Festival (August 2008) and got nominated for best cinematography at the 4th Asian-Pacific Festival of 1st Films, Singapore, (4th - 10th December 2008)

Synopsis: The Malaysian underworld is at war with the Hong Kong Triads, an invisible feud kept from public eyes. But when a young girl gets murdered, the case blows up in the headlines. Everyone is a suspect. The Malaysian Police, and their long-time understanding with the underworld, gets dragged into public scrutiny. What follows is a trail drenched in blood, suspense and betrayal.

Movie Details

Language: English

Year of production: 2008

Length: 7:25

Country: Malaysia

Original source

Filmmaker's Personal Web TV

Film Annex


  • Directors:
    Juliane Block
  • Producers:
    Juliane Block & Adrian Lai
  • Actors:
    Adrian Lai, Alfred Loh, Sam Yap, Wong Meng Kitt, Cheryl Lee, Sean Yap, Nina Sharil Khan, Vicky Balasundran, JD Menon
  • Film Festivals:
    Winner feature category Portable Film Festival 2008,
    Asian Festival of First Films with a nomination for best cinematography

Comments

  • Juliane Block on 09 July at 12:49

    We signed up for acting classes and took part in local theater (Juliane had to learn Tamil for one of them). We made a lot of friends, and treated everyone as nicely as possible (keeping in mind that some or all of them may become useful as cast or crew later on). We shot a short film called "Unsecured Loan", where we learnt that working with a traditional-sized movie crew could be a pain, especially Malaysian ones.

    I posted our full story how we made a movie next to nothing on my blog :) http://www.filmannex.com/posts/blog/jblockbuster/a_zero_budget_filmmaking_story/13588