Malaysian animated documentary picked as opening film for US film fest

By MUGUNTAN VANAR

Soon (left) receiving an award from actress Naomie Harris (who starred in Skyfall, Spectre, Moonlight) at the Campus MovieFest award ceremony.

KOTA KINABALU: Malaysian Soon King Yaw's documentary, All I Did was Smile and Say Hello, on the rising discrimination against Asians in the United States during the Covid-19 pandemic has been selected as the opening film of the KQED Homemade Film Festival.

It was picked out over 500 films that were submitted.

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