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2024

Queer As Punk

Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund Grantee

  • photo of an asain person with long brown ahir and a plaid button up shirt
    Yihwen Chen , Director
  • photo of an asian woman with short hair and glasses half of her face is shadowed
    Mandy Marahimin, Producer
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About the Project

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Project Team

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    Yihwen Chen

    Wen is a Malaysian documentary filmmaker and journalist. Her short documentary on female circumcision won the Society of Publishers in Asia 2019 Award for Excellence in Reporting Women's Issues. In 2019, her debut feature documentary, Eye on the Ball, about Malaysia's blind football team premiered in London. Most recently, her #MeToo  documentary, The Boys Club won the NETPAC Award at the Busan International Short Film Festival 2022. Currently, she is completing her second feature documentary about marginalised communities in Malaysia, supported by Hot Docs CrossCurrents Fund. Wen is also an alumni of IDFAcademy and American Film Showcase.

    photo of an asian woman with short hair and glasses half of her face is shadowed

    Mandy Marahimin

    Mandy Marahimin produces feature films, documentaries, and shorts. Her feature documentary, “Islands of Faith” (Chairunnissa) was released theatrically and was on Netflix. She also initiated Buried Chapters with Kurawal Foundation, a short documentary series that bring up topics that is considered taboo in Indonesia.