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The Iskandarian ISSUE 52 | DEC 2016
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JBFF 2016: Celebrating Films and Filmmakers
Team Tyloo Dominated CS:GO Minor Championship ASIA
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China’s team Tyloo won USD30000 and secured a place in the offline qualifier for the next CS:GO Major Championship
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orld’s number twelve and Asia’s number one team TyLoo of China bagged the USD30000 (about RM130,082) top prize after three days of intense battle in the CS:GO Minor Championship ASIA at Pinewood Iskandar Malaysia Studios jointly organised by eGG Network and PGL. Australian’s Team Renegades and China’s Team VG CyberZen who came in second and third took home USD15000 (RM65,041) and USD5000 (RM21,680) respectively. The winner and runner-up also secured a place in the offline qualifier for the next CS:GO Major. The upcoming ELEAGUE Major Championship in Atlanta, USA, will be the tenth CS:GO Major Championship in CS:GO history. A total of eight top teams across Asia Pacific took part in the CS:GO Minor Championship
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14 award-winning international films screened in four days of festivities
ilm is not just a form of escapism or a tool to kill time. It is also a platform of education, empowerment and self reflection as film itself is a mirror to the real world we are living in. In an attempt to educate the society through films, the Johor Bahru Film Festival 2016 (JBFF 2016) came up for its second year with a good list of local and international films. 14 highly selected awardwinning international movies from Nusantara, Asia, South Asia and Europe were showcased, and this year’s JBFF 2016 gave a creative insight into feelings, problems and circumstances faced by people in their respective countries. JBFF 2016 curator Hassan Muthalib said the festival promoted cultural diversity among the people and also celebrated filmmakers around the world who struggled to make such a beautiful and meaningful films for everyone to experience. “Today if you could have seen what cinema has become, you will not just mention the stories but also the filmmakers.
ASIA namely TyLoo, Renegades, Athletico BH, Team NXL, MVP Project, FireDragoon eSports, VG.CyberZen and Team BOT. ESports fans also managed to catch the live broadcast of the tournament on www.twitch.tv/pgl and eGG Network (Astro channel 808), Astro on the Go and Tribe. by Hakim Malik TI
Team TyLoo versus NXL in the pre-show
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They are what cinema is all about. They are thinkers, sensitive to the citizen of their own country, their identity and their place in the world, their frustration, their aspiration and their humanity,” said Hassan during the opening ceremony of JBFF 2016 at Blackbox, Mall of Medini. Also present was prolific director U-Wei Haji Saari and Malaysia’s famous actress Maya Karin. Apart from screening feature films, the four days of festivities also screened selected short films made by local filmmakers and there was
also a film masterclass and forums. In total, JBFF 2016 featured 14 feature films entitled Nota/ Note (Malaysia), Jalanan/Streetside (Indonesia), My Magic (Singapore), Nuwebe/Termitaria (Philippines), Yasmine (Brunei), Akash Koto Dure/ The Distant Sky (Bangladesh), Adomya...And Life Goes On (India), Oba Nathuwa Oba Ekka/ With You, Without You (Sri Lanka), Dukhtar/ Daughter (Pakistan), Voices of A Distant Star (Japan), A Mongolian Tale (China), Loreak (Spain), The 400 Blows (France) and Stopped on Track (Germany). - by Syakirin Daud TI
Maya Karin, Hassan Muthalib, Yasu Tanaka and Bea Tanaka during the talk session after film screening