EXCLUSIVE: Gersh on Tuesday announced its signing of Amanda Nell Eu, the rising filmmaker whose debut feature Tiger Stripes recently made history at the Cannes Film Festival.
The first Malaysian film directed by a woman to premiere at the prestigious French festival, Tiger Stripes is also the first out of Malaysia to win one of its top awards, having earlier this year nabbed the Critics’ Week Grand Prize.
It’s a coming-of-age body horror that tells the story of Zaffan (Zafreen Zairizal), a 12-year-old girl who discovers a terrifying secret about her body.
When she’s ostracized by her rural community, Zaffan fights back, learning that she must embrace the body she feared and, ultimately, emerging as a proud, strong woman.
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