Malaysian director Edmund Yeo would rather get a 9-to-5 job than be a boring, corporate filmmaker.
“The films we’re exposed to in Malaysia are so limited that people can only accept a very narrow idea of what cinema is,” he says. “You can’t challenge or question anything. There’s a shortage of what you can express through cinema.”
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