What' s our documentary about?​

A story of Jengit, Orang Asli kaum Batek who choose to live a primitive life at Malaysia's largest rainforest. Jengit will share his perspective and thought of growing up in a nomadic Batek community which contrasting with the normal city lifestyle. We want to shot this short documentary in appealing cinematic approaches. To also know Batek family closer, we will stay at their encampment where there's no phone coverage, electricity and toilet for few days.

What's so interesting about Jengit or kaum Batek?​

Orang Asli Batek is an indigenous people of Peninsular Malaysia. Located about 300 Km away from city centre of Kuala Lumpur, at Taman Negara Kuala Tahan, they live nomadically within the general confines of the area they inhabit.This documentary tells about Batek communities and lifestyle from the eyes of a young man named Jengit. He was born and raised within the nomadic encampment of the Batek tribe. He and five other families in the encampment still hold and follow their primitive way of life even though they have been exposed to a modernization from the Malaysia government. He spends most of his time hunting wild animals and gathers food from the forest to fed his family. He managed to survive without any modern tools and use archaic method until today and still able to enjoy his life.Through this young man, we are able to experience his daily activities and the nomadic Batek community. The documentary covers his activity from the morning he wakes up until dusk. 

Our Mission

This documentary aims to raise awareness and educate fellows Malaysian and tourist about the Orang Asli community. It will be an eye-opening and give us a close look at the settlement and the peoples. Their existence and culture deserve to be made known to the world especially to Malaysian themselves.

​Some pictures from our location scouting

This is the ​bus that we use to reach Kuala Tahan from Jerantut during location scouting

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We spent a night at Kuala Tahan before we go to the Batek encampment the next morning

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Jengit,​ Pakwe and their family encampment

Budget Breakdown

We try to be as transparent as possible to let you know how much we need to execute our project (contingency/unexpected extra cost excluded).

Location

The expected date for shooting is around the end of January, which we are unsure about the weather on our scheduled production day. If it's raining, we have to add another day to shoot the footages. Things can go unexpectedly, like heavy rain all day or flooding river (Sungai Tembeling). Bad weather will result in reshooting on another week, meaning that we will need extra cost for transportation, accommodation, permit, etc. that currently is not included in our budget breakdown.

Time

Our crews are all degree students from the same faculty but different major. The only day we can go for production is during the weekend. If we missed some footage due to bad weather, we have to wait until another weekend to shoot again. Time is very limited.

The storyline and our cast

We are uncertain if things that we expected to happen won't happen, or there are interesting things that are about to happen but off from our scheduled production day. We don't want to stick too much to our script to make it look and feel as natural and real as possible. Since it's a documentary about someone's extraordinary daily life, sometimes something magical happens, or nothing happens at the moment.