This was our entrant to the Red Ribbon Short Film Competition and we were fortunate enough to be the Grand Prize Winner in the tertiary/public category. We hope this short film raises awareness about HIV in our community.

Short Film

This was a short film promoting the use of mediation in conflict resolution particularly for parties hard hit by the pandemic and struggling to find a way to resolve disputes arising from broken contractual arrangements.

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This was a project commissioned by the Sabah Tourism Board to showcase the beauty of Sabah as a destination for holidays, events, meetings and conventions.

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George is a director, film-maker and professional photographer of 15 years’ experience. As the Managing Director of Cherita Media Group, George leads a young, curated team of media professionals in realizing Cherita’s twin mission as a locally grown multi-formatted story-telling powerhouse, and a social enterprise to empower youths in the Sabah media and arts industry. A Sino-Kadazan from Kota Kinabalu, George is inspired by the art of story-telling in and strives to breathe new life into the arts scene through the medium of pictures, films and graphics.

At just 22 years of age, Zen has proven his mettle in the area of film-making, taking home the best-director award & grand prize at the Sabah Screen Fest & Borneo Eco Film Fest competitions. His broad body of work comprises of commercial work, public service advertisements, documentaries and short- films. Zen distinguishes himself from many other film-makers of his generation by the sophistication of his finished films; he believes that the value of a story lies not only in the innovation of its telling, but also in the quality of its final edits. He shoots primarily with Sony A6600 but for specific projects he will be using Canon C70 to produce documentary-quality images.