- Yasmin Ahmad
Infobox Celebrity
name = Yasmin Ahmad
birth_date =
birth_place =
occupation =Film Director
spouse =Yasmin Ahmad is a critically-acclaimed
film director and writer fromMalaysia . Her feature films to date include:Filmography
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Rabun " (2003)
*"Sepet " (2004)
*"Gubra " (2006)
*"Mukhsin " (2007)
*"Muallaf " (2008)
*"Talentime " (Still in production)Biography
Yasmin began her career in advertising as a copywriter at Ogilvy & Mather, eventually rising to creative director at Leo Burnett Kuala Lumpur. Her television commercials are well-known in Malaysia -- particularly her ads for PETRONAS, the national oil and gas company.
Yasmin's films have won many international awards and praise from the critics and public alike. Most of her films have been screened at the Berlin, San Francisco, Singapore and Paris international film festivals. Her films were featured in a [http://www.tiff-jp.net/en/lineup/winds_of_asia/ special retrospective] at the 19th Tokyo International Film Festival in October 2006. An April 2007 [http://www.hawaii.edu/cseas/yasmin.html retrospective] of her feature films was sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hawai`i, and the Honolulu Academy of Arts.
External links
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* [http://yasminthestoryteller.blogspot.com/ The Storyteller] , her blog.
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