LMAF 60 Sec. Video Challenge Results

21 submission. 10 in-competition. 4 top winners.

LMAF 60 Sec. Video Challenge Results

Best Actor Award
Thurston Atong (The Lost)

Best Actress Award
Alyssa (Luv Story)

Best Videography Award
Cassidy Tunek (Spirit Of The Coin - Part 2)

Best Editing Award
Cassidy Tunek (Spirit Of The Coin - Part 2)

Best Costume / Makeup / Art Direction Award
Thurston Atong & Ken Hensley (Spirit Of The Coin - Part 2)

Best Stunt Award
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Best Score Award
Spirit Of The Coin (Part 2)

Best Screenplay Award
Kenny Ribun Ladie (The Lost)

Best Director Award
Gilbert Chaong Ganyon (The Lost)

Best 60 Sec. Video Award
Spirit Of The Coin (Part 2)

Jury's Video Award
The Lost & still

Audience Choice Award
Spirit Of The Coin (Part 2)

Watch all 10 of the in-competition videos on

Poetry Makes Nothing Happen

Victoria Cattoni, our featured artist shared an excerpt. A big shame if kept only to ourselves.

Poetry makes nothing happen? In the immediate sense and in the world of politics, it rarely does, if ever – and even when it does, what “happens” is an internal matter, a happening in the heart and soul, the process being so subtle and slow to the point of being almost unperceivable or untranslatable into immediate action. Therein lies the mystery of poetry, of art. And its ultimate worth and justification as well as its uselessness in the quantitative practical sense – the kind of sense valued by bureaucratic moralists, ideologues and politicians.

Salleh Ben Joned from the essay
'Poetry Makes Nothing Happen' in "Nothing is Sacred",
Maya Press Sdn. Bhd.,
2003, Selangor Darul Ehsan ( Malaysia ), pp.81-82

LMAF Official Site Updated

http://www.digitalmalaya.com/LMAF/

If you have not bookmarked this link already, it is time to do so! We're up and running with bits & pieces of info of the LMAF 2006 edition. Web spinned by Muid Latif, video created by Perez. Undeniably awesome, you wish there's more than it is.

Since this LMAF debut is not very targeted on externals & Labuan public at large, we figure it is best to archive this year's event, conserving reports, photos and such in its entirety at one go. And we're taking our time to do it.

LMAF is experimental. Ideally students who volunteers to be part of the Board of LMAF Journalist keep all of us updated. Yes, I am a lecturer and should not be blabbering here the whole time. But grammatically we're not ready. Many many editing, polishing, refining needed. Not that we're very bad. But LMAF is our classroom. A big English lesson. We do not think that learning process compromised with strict datelines would do any good.

We are learning. And as soon as we know how we can ideally do so and at the same time feeding everybody with our updates & whereabouts, dear supporters & friends, let us welcome patience.