The Pontianak
Mythical female ghost of vengeance in Southeast Asian folklore
Join acclaimed author Sharlene Teo who will read from her award winning novel ‘Ponti’ alongside a rare screening in the UK of ‘Tiger Stripes’ writer/director Amanda Nell Eu’s ‘Lagi Senang Jaga Sekandang Lembu’ (English title: It’s Easier to Raise Cattle) – a short film about a Pontianak which premiered at Venice Biennale in 2017.
It’s Halloween Southeast Asian style!!!
The Pontianak
Mythical female ghost of vengeance in Southeast Asian folklore
Join acclaimed author Sharlene Teo who will read from her award winning novel ‘Ponti’ alongside a rare screening in the UK of ‘Tiger Stripes’ writer/director Amanda Nell Eu’s ‘Lagi Senang Jaga Sekandang Lembu’ (English title: It’s Easier to Raise Cattle) – a short film about a Pontianak which premiered at Venice Biennale in 2017.
It’s Halloween Southeast Asian style!!!
Sharlene Teo is a Singaporean writer who lives in London. She is the winner of the inaugural Deborah Rogers Writers’ Award for Ponti, her first novel, which has been translated into nine languages. Her writing has been shortlisted for the Berlin Writing Prize and Edward Stanford Award and appeared in places such as The Guardian, Granta and McSweeney’s. She is the director of the Surrey New Writers Festival and founder of the Surrey New Writing Prize which aims to support and platform unpublished and published writers of all ages and backgrounds who reside in the UK.
Amanda Nell Eu is a filmmaker based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Her debut feature film Tiger Stripes was the Grand Prize winner of Semaine de la Critique in the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. This marked several firsts as the first Malaysian film directed by a female to premiere at Cannes, and the first Malaysian film to win a top prize at Cannes. The film was also the official Malaysian submission for the Academy Awards in 2023.
Amanda graduated from the London Film School with an MA in Filmmaking and is an alumna of Berlinale Talents and Locarno Filmmakers Academy. Her short film It’s Easier to Raise Cattle premiered in competition at the Venice International Film Festival and received a Special Mention at the International Short Film Festival Clermont-Ferrand. In her work, she explores the female body and identity within the cultural context of Southeast Asia.
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