Life I Stole (Hidup Aku Curi)
LOGLINE
12-year old undocumented boy Nudin wants to attend a school trip to be with his girlfriend Ina (12). His application has been rejected and he takes a chance in forging his identity to achieve his goal. Attending the trip despite not getting approval from his parents, later Nudin starts to foresee his circumstances living without an identity.
COUNTRY/REGION : Malaysia
GENRE : Drama
LANGUAGE(S) : Malay, Sabahan Indigenous Languages
TOTAL BUDGET : MYR 1,250,000
CONFIRMED FINANCING : MYR 47,000
PARTICIPATION IN OTHER LABS/ EVENTS :
2022 International Film Business Academy (Producing) by Busan Asian Film School - AFiS
2021 Young Producer Workshop by Next New Wave
2021 Fiction Lab by Full Circle Labs Philippines
AWARDS WON FOR THE PROJECT :
2021 Most Promising Project Young Producer Workshop by Next New Wave
Putri Purnama Sugua
Director & Scriptwriter
Putri Purnama Sugua (28) is a vivacious filmmaker from Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia known for her passion for the issues of stateless children. Growing up in an underprivileged area made her to be the filmmaker she is today. She wants to be the voice of the marginalised, powerless people through her films. Most of her previous short films often revolve around the issue in stateless in her hometown. Using the approach of narrative and documentary storytelling in her film, Putri has develop her own creative style to illuminate and build awareness to the stories of the undocumented community.
Tan Cher Kian
Producer
Tan Cher Kian (CK) is a Bornean Sabahan who made the leap from an oil and gas engineering sales specialist to become a theatre practitioner in 2018. He started his dalliances with stage as actor and writer due to his affinity with his mother tongue (literally) Cantonese, that led him to the evolving Singaporean work of My Grandfather’s Road by Neo Kim Seng from 2017 – 2019 at Centre 42 & Esplanade in Singapore.
CK is the founder of Siring Siring Production and currently the Producer of The Instant Café Theatre Company (ICT). He is interested in works that breakdown barriers yet build bridges and has a soft-spot for non-official languages (dialect).