So today the class discussed documentaries and research for our upcoming documentary next year. I got the fifth edition of "Directing the documentary" by Michael Rabiger and "The art of documentary" by Megan Cunningham to start off my book-based research. I've already got a general idea of what I want to talk about, being a pragmatist, I might end up going for this topic all the way; it's something along the lines of "Being gay in the Sultanate" it's a working title, I still have time to refine my concept.
I know that the Muslim religion plays a lot into why homosexuality (NB: Be catious about religion here) is illegal in Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore but what about locals or natives who aren't from that religion? Isn't that unfair? Being a homosexual myself, this will be quite a personal topic and if I work hard, I'm sure that it could be great.
Remember to try and get expert legal opinion from Joanne Yuan Tan (Need to look into some gay related crime cases and perhaps ask her about what actions could be taken and why some things are justified).
Need to also talk to some sort of psychiatrist or psychologist or anthropologist on the possible reasons for such a majority rejection of the behaviour, the reason why it's still upheld.
Try hard for polemic arguments.
Look into "Cinema Verite".
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