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Yasmin Ahmad is a critically-acclaimed film director and writer from Malaysia. Her feature films to date include:
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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 special retrospective at the 19th Tokyo International Film Festival in October 2006. An April 2007 retrospective of her feature films was sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hawai`i, and the Honolulu Academy of Arts.
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