Finas and mall hold short movie-making competition to boost interest in the field

1 The Mines marketing communications senior executive Eileen Cheong (left) and Akmal Razlan (right) celebrates Tan (second from left) and his teammates’ achievements in The Mines Short Film Competition.2 The Mines Short Film Competition was well received among the youth, garnering 147 entries in total.

THE story of a son’s love for his mother with an unexpected twist thrown proved to be successful for a team from Saito College in The Mines Short Film Competition.

Twenty-year-old Tan Jun Syern and his four teammates made the five-minute film about a postman named Kumar, whose affection for his deceased mother drove him to slay his own father, an alcoholic who killed her when he was just 10 years old.