Malaysian filmmaker Indrani Kopal bags award at Cannes Film Festival


PETALING JAYA: It was a reel honour for Malaysian filmmaker Indrani Kopal (pic) when she won the Best Student Documentary award at the American Pavilion's Emerging Filmmaker Showcase in Cannes Film Festival on May 19.

Her documentary The Game Changer focused on how dance instructor Susan Slotnick used dance as part of a rehabilitation programme at a correctional facility in New York.

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