Sell Out!
7.4 /10 1 Votes
Director Yeo Joon Han Writer Joon-han Yeo Duration | 7.2/10 IMDb Genre Musical Screenplay Yeo Joon Han Country Malaysia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language English, Cantonese. Malay Release date 29 August 2008 (2008-08-29) (Venice) Initial release May 7, 2009 (Malaysia, Singapore) Cast Peter Davis, Kee Thuan Chye, Jerrica Lai, Kareem Koh, Lim Teik-long Music director Yeo Joon Han, Bruno Brugnano Similar movies Monsters, Inc. , Half Baked , The Hudsucker Proxy , The Return of the Living Dead , Sneakers , The Informant! Tagline Don't but me! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sell Out! is a 2008 comedy film set in Malaysia which premiered at the 65th Venice International Film Festival where it also won the Young Cinema Award for Alternative Vision. It was written, edited and directed by Yeo Joon Han who is a graduate of the London Film Academy.
Contents
Described as Malaysia’s first 'Manglish' (Malaysian-English) musical comedy, it points fingers at various institutions and people in the country, from bureaucrats and CEOs to artists and the media.
Plot
Self-absorbed Malaysian TV host, Rafflesia Pong (Jerrica Lai), whose art-discussion programme is dying from lousy ratings, stumbles upon a golden opportunity when her latest interviewee, an ex-boyfriend, dies in front of the camera. It is perfect timing as she has to find a way to come up with the ultimate reality show to outdo her American-accented pan-Asian rival. Eric Tan (Peter Davis) is a mild-mannered, half-English corporate slave who, like Pong, works for the Fony Corporation. He labours to create the perfect Soyamaker Machine but is constantly assailed by unreasonable insults from his megalomaniacal CEO bosses and is in love with Pong.
Awards and accolades
WINNER Young Cinema Award for Alternative Vision Venice Film Festival 2008
WINNER NETPAC Award Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival 2008
Best Film of the Venice Critics Week 2008 -Italian Critics Poll, Cineforum
Awarded- Special Mention at the Barcelona Asian Film Festival!
List of Film Festivals and Premieres
1. Venice Film Festival, Critic's Week (World Premiere)
2. Vancouver International Film Festival (North American Premiere)
3. Pusan International Film Festival (Asian Premiere)
4. Taipei Golden Horse Festival
5. Zurich Film Festival
6. Hong Kong Asian Film Festival
7. World Film Festival of Bangkok
8. Karlovy-Vary International Film Festival *(2009)
9. Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (BAFICI) *(2009)
10. TromsØ International Film Festival, Norway *(2009)
11. Era New Horizons International Film Festival, Poland *(2009)
12 Barcelona Asian Film Festival *(2009)
13. Singapore International Film Festival (2009)
14. Festival Paris Cinema (2009)
15. Rome Asian Film Festival (2009)
Cast
Jerrica Lai
Peter Davis
Kee Thuan Chye
Lim Teik Leong
References
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