KUALA LUMPUR, June 4 -- More often than not, film directors are influential people, especially the great ones such as Steven Spielberg or Sir Christopher Nolan, who at least once in their careers have been praised as visionaries.

This is thanks to their ability to make films that not only collected tonnes of money at the box office but also made films that resonated well with generations of audiences.

Some even end up being inducted as iconic pieces of pop culture such as the 1975 film Jaws or the Dark Knight trilogy which forever changed the landscape of superhero films.

Malaysians might not be spoken of in the same breath as Spielberg or Nolan, yet, but it doesn't mean that we don't have great filmmakers other than the legendary late...