Am now totally convinced it ain't easy organising a film festival!
But so far, the experience has been the most rewarding,alhamdullilah. Each event brings a new rahmah.New friendships.New ilmu. But my constant prayer is may Allah make it easy for all of us.
Today we were working on the judging criteria.We held a workshop with two sessions in which the scholars deliberated on the meanings of Islamic film, shariah compliance, etc.Everyone learnt a lot esp. those from the industry.I like what Prof Zein said of Islamic films...how they have to be created by those who are also Islamically informed cos' you can't produce anything Islamic if you do not subscribe to the belief, etc.I also love his comparisons with Islamic finance ..how the industry cannot repeat whatever is lacking in the financial world now.He said even after 30 years, we have failed to educate the masses cos' you still get people asking what is the difference between conventional banking and Islamic banking.But hey, Rome was not built in a day.What is 30 years, kan?
Dr. Salam and Dr. Anis brought in good points about many things as well, saying we are behind in trying to do shariah compliant movies.Negara dot dot has spent billions to do this in 2010 and has managed to compile a significant number of Islamic films but according to a research cited by Dr. Salam out of millions of movies produced in the last 120 years of cinema around the world, only a small per centage qualify as good movies.Yikes, Tipah tertipu! I must write to the film authorities in negara dot dot.
But so far, the experience has been the most rewarding,alhamdullilah. Each event brings a new rahmah.New friendships.New ilmu. But my constant prayer is may Allah make it easy for all of us.
Today we were working on the judging criteria.We held a workshop with two sessions in which the scholars deliberated on the meanings of Islamic film, shariah compliance, etc.Everyone learnt a lot esp. those from the industry.I like what Prof Zein said of Islamic films...how they have to be created by those who are also Islamically informed cos' you can't produce anything Islamic if you do not subscribe to the belief, etc.I also love his comparisons with Islamic finance ..how the industry cannot repeat whatever is lacking in the financial world now.He said even after 30 years, we have failed to educate the masses cos' you still get people asking what is the difference between conventional banking and Islamic banking.But hey, Rome was not built in a day.What is 30 years, kan?
Dr. Salam and Dr. Anis brought in good points about many things as well, saying we are behind in trying to do shariah compliant movies.Negara dot dot has spent billions to do this in 2010 and has managed to compile a significant number of Islamic films but according to a research cited by Dr. Salam out of millions of movies produced in the last 120 years of cinema around the world, only a small per centage qualify as good movies.Yikes, Tipah tertipu! I must write to the film authorities in negara dot dot.
The session by people from the film industry pun enjoyable and educating.I like Hajjah Ju's take on positioning ourselves in the halal industry (she's featured in Forbes, Wall Street, Bloomsberg etc, OK? A pleasure meeting her and met another new fren also..by the end of the day, we were kissy kissy, huggy huggy.Haha, women!) Tapi the one who took the cake was Pak Hassan.You've got to know him.Dia ni ckp he took 9 subjects for SPM..broke the record cos' he got 7 Fs.Never went to uni but self taught himself through reading, watching movies, travels and befriending bijakpandai.He speaks better than some Profs ...me included.Him as a film critic is fantastico.Of Bunuhan he said, messagenya ini: jangan cuba bawa UMNO ke Kelantan..punoh! Haha.His reading of Life of Pi, Bujang Lapok lagi interesting.He said P.Ramlee was ahead his time..zaman pompuan tak kerja ..apa tah lagi jadi cikgu...film Ramlee dah ada watak pompuan jadi cikgu.Masa the pendekar spoke to the gal's dad, the dad said ini la namanya pencil kontot..maknanya the dad taught his daughter and the gal would have worked so hard sampai pencil kontot..wow..I used to think dlm byk2 film Ramlee, filem tulah yang paling bodoh ( and cerita labu labi tu).Life of Pi pulak was seen as a criticism of failure of Hollywood.Woohoo...
At the end of the day folks..more work for me and team..to further refine our judging criteria.Semoga diberi Petunjuk oleh yang Esa. Malamnya pula: wedding yang juga interesting.Too many people sampai we had to wait for nasi to masak lagi.We took it in good spirit..told our close friends..ada la tu dosa kita mana2 tht our rezeki sempit today.Haha..but in the end we got it good also.I left early cos' Nik nak berhuu haa with his college friends.It had been a long day for me,Tompang my neighbours who had to leave early sebab flying overseas besok.
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