By Jacintha Jolene & Neville Timothy Sanders
KUCHING: Tilit-Tilit Cinta (Spying Your Love) created history in becoming the first Sarawak dialect drama to be released on Netflix, starting tomorrow.
Distributed by MyContent Distribution, this 13-episode drama produced by Vian Media is an adaptation of the theater titled ‘Latiff vs Maryam’, an original work by Arshad Adam.
The production of this drama series is funded by the National Film Development Corporation Malaysia (FINAS) through the Digital Content Grand (DKD).
The drama is among the nine DKD recipients through TVS Pitch It Series 1/2020 programme and was shown on TVS, Astro MYTV channel 122 last year, starting on Oct 9 and ended on Nov 21, 2021.
Revolving around romance and full of homour, the main characters, Ujang and Merry are played by Haziq Fadhullah and Dee Dee A’iene.
Directed by Josh Nawan, the drama also stars supporting actors namely Kahar Jini, Yana Melanos and Javenson Serit while the original sound track (OST) “If You Don’t Love Me Now” was created by Farouk Kamil and sung by Steff Fleur, which are all Sarawakian-born talents.
Josh said with TVS being the state channel, he opines that this is what Sarawakians should cherish with the drama being the first Sarawakian dialect drama to release on Netflix
“Therefore, I urge everybody to support the movement and initiative by TVS to tell the people’s story,” he said.
Dee Dee on the other hand, when asked on the entertainment industry in the state, she believes that the industry is growing, and something that should be leverage on.
“We see the support that the state government has been pouring into the Sarawak’s creative and entertainment industry,” she said.
She added the concerted efforts put into seminars, workshops and even TVS opens up the chances and opportunities for Sarawak talents to be involved in the creative industry.
“We want to show who we are and what we are capable of doing and to be able to penetrate into international market.
“That is indeed something big and huge, and we are not just representing Sarawak, but also Malaysia as well,” she added.
Also present at the special Tilit-Tilit Cinta announcement ceremony were Assistant Director of FINAS Sarawak Maffizan Saupie; acting chief executive officer of TVS Rizal Zulkapli; managing director of MyContent Distribution Lyn Nasihin and Jason Chong, executive producer of Vian Media.
