Afdlin Shauki is in Osaka for the International Film Festival, as the director for "Papadom". The film was invited to be in competition, and tonight at the awards ceremony, it was given THIRD place out of an overall twelve international movies in the Audience Award category!
This category is an audience choice award, so it was gratifying to know that the Osaka Film Fest audiences appreciated Papadom enough to give it that accolade!
Check out his facebook page here and follow him on twitter here for picture updates (tho I think twitter was down when he last updated, so it might have been missed).
Cheers!
C