Three Short Films about Women at SeaShorts 2018, George Town
about 78 months ago (08/16/2018)
Three Short Films about Women at SeaShorts 2018, George Town | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Image courtesy of SEA Shorts August 16, 2018 By Alfonse Chiu (1216 words, five-minute read) The SeaShorts Film Festival ran for its second edition as the official pre-festival to the annual George Town Festival from 1st to 5th August in a radical geographical shift away from the Kuala Lumpur home of its parent organisation, Next New Wave. It showcased more than 120 short films scattered over 22 programmes in two different venues, with two competitive segments and country-by-country best-of selections by noted film programmers of each nation. In the wake of major scandals, administrative upheavals, and reshuffling of the global film programming deck, the festival is in many ways a sort of ideal respite in all its pastoral charm and regional celebration – right in the middle of a sunny Penang getting ready for month-long festivities no less.