Los Dan Faun anyone?

If you're keen to be a part of the premier of Los Dan Faun, now is your chance to get in on the action!

We are having a captions contest using pictures from on and off the set - and five lucky finalists will get a chance to win tickets to the Grand Opening of Los Dan Faun!!

We have already begun Round One. Submissions have closed and the semi-final entries were chosen and have now been posted here.

You have until midnight June 22nd to cast your vote (via the comments box).

If you think you could do better, then your chance is coming soon! Take part in Round Two when I post the next picture up today!!

See you soon!

Los Dan Faun anyone?

When Superheroes Fly

Because of our very hectic schedules last year, with the release of Sumolah and eventual recording of Actorlympics for TV (NTV7, 9pm Wed), we only did one run of Actorlympics for the stage. As their producer I think it's better if the actors only do one or two runs a year, but the actors are such gluttons for pleasure and stimulus that they would do a run every month if they could.

So last year we only had the one run, with a Superheroes theme:



Look hard and you will find the 50% invisible boy, stapler man, chicken egg woman, elephant man, and so on. The actors came up with the ideas themselves, with some input from Isma, who drew the illustrations.

Boogey Boogey Boogey!!!

The next poster was for a run that was on the month before Halloween, so of course, we did a scary theme. Unfortunately we couldn't get many actors to come to the shoot date we specified because of time constraints. Still, it works, no?




The identities of the characters each actor chose were: Ida as Salma Hayek in "From Dusk Till Dawn"; Reza as Freddy Kreuger; Afdlin as Frankenstein; and poor Douglas as the kid from Ju-on.

Models United

In June we decided on a models theme because America's Next Top Model was on. Surprisingly, or maybe not so surprisingly, the actors loved posing for Isma, and during the shoot we had music blaring to provide atmosphere, and I think someone may have set up a fan for the ladies.

We wanted them to look very touched up, shiny and feeyussssss.

On to February 2006

This was a run we had just before Sumolah began production. We thought it would be great to have a stage run in tandem with the Sumolah shoot, and it went down very well with the audience, particularly the opening number, which involved yukattas and lots of posing.



The shoot took a long time because we couldn't decide between sushi or noodles to pose with. It ended up being noodles because they were cheap and easily bought. The room was our conference room at the office, and involved the four metal clips we managed to round up from all our stationery, to hold up the cane blinds behind the boys.

You'll notice that there are only boys in the picture. One of the biggest imbalances in Actorlympics is the boy-girl ratio. We started out with Paula Malai Ali, Jo Kukathas and Joanna Bessey. Then Nell Ng and Ida Nerina came on board as regulars a few years back. But for this shoot, we could not get any girls to attend the shoot because of their schedules.

So Reza Zainal Abidin very graciously stepped up to the plate and makes a lovely geisha,, the only actual female character in the picture.

For a closer look, check out the header picture up top. You'll notice it is a raw still and has not yet been treated for final printing as per the poster and flyer.

Design Heaven

So for our December 2005 run, we got Isma to design a poster for us, and he came up with the idea of giving everyone a cover shot on "famous" magazines.

As you can see, it was ambitious, delightful and impressed the bazookas off everyone. These were the flyers we had made for each individual actor:







There are more, but check them out in the poster:



Isma also style and photographed the actors. Talented boy!