Mohd Naguib Razak

Experience

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  KHK D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles

  Jan 1992 - Jan 1993

  Copywriter
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  The Writers' Publishing House

  Jan 1993 - Jan 1994

  Staff Writer

  Staff Writer for Men's Review magazine and Equine magazine

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  Octagon Design & Advertising

  Jan 1994 - Jan 1995

  Copywriter
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  ASTRO

  Oct 1995 - Feb 1998

  Producer, Scriptwriter

  Highlight: Created & produced the successful live-to-tape weekly film review & discussion programme, Wayang Kita.Officially appointed designations:Television Producer Television Scriptwriter/Editor Additional roles:Television Director (Drama & Magazines)Production Monitor to Commissioned ProductionsFilm Festival Liaison Bureau

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  ASTRO Shaw

  Mar 1998 - Dec 1999

  Feature Film Writer

  Officially appointed designations:Feature Film Writer (Astro Shaw)Additional roles:Feature Film Project DevelopmentIn-house Film Archive & Theaterette Supervisor Co-ordinator of Film Appreciation Screenings

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  Blue In Green Productions

  Mar 2002 - Aug 2011

  Managing Director, Producer/Director

  Prior to his appointment as Director General of FINAS, Naguib was an independent documentary filmmaker, having produced and directed for Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel and Crime & Investigation Network as well as having his creative documentary films presented at major film festivals, including Mannheim-Heidelberg, IDFA Amsterdam, Yamagata, Rencontres Paris/Berlin/Madrid and It’s All True - São Paulo/Rio de Janeiro.He acted as Co-Organizer and Partner with Documentary Campus in Germany & European Documentary Network in Denmark for the Crossing Borders 2011 Documentary Development, Networking & Pitching programme in Malaysia with support from the European Union’s MEDIA Mundus programme and FINAS.Naguib was a guest speaker at the World Congress of Science & Factual Producers in Dresden in December 2010, at the Australian International Documentary Conference in Adelaide in 2011 and at the Asian Side of the Doc in Seoul in 2011.He was also instrumental in organising Malaysian delegations to the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in 2010 and the Asian Side of the Docs in Seoul in 2011.In 2006, he was leader of the Malaysian Industry Experts’ Delegation to the Ministerial Meeting on the Asian Content Industry in Manila as part of the fledgling Asia Content Summit then.His most recent creative project was the short film BELAIAN, made for the omnibus film, 3.11 A Sense Of Home Films in 2011, initiated by Naomi Kawase, involving 21 celebrated international filmmakers including Victor Erice, Apichatpong Weeraseethakul, Jia Zhang-ke and Bong Joon-ho, as well as singer-songwriter, poet-visual artist, Patti Smith.He has close to 20 years of experience in the film & broadcasting industry, as producer, director, writer and executive producer across feature films, documentary films, animation, drama and game shows. Show less

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  Japan Foundation Fellowship (Invitation) Program

  Mar 2002 - Sept 2002

  Fellow

  Naguib’s original chosen assignment was to produce an intimate biographical documentary portrait of the acclaimed, multiple Cannes Film Festival award-winning Japanese filmmaker, Naomi Kawase. It eventually led him to conceive and create the film, Glass Enclosure: Tokyo Invisible, his first feature (documentary) film.

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  TeleProductions International Ltd (U.S.A.)

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2005

  Freelance Script Consultant and Research Consultant

  Freelance Script Consultant and Research Consultant onLong Road to Heaven, a U.S.A.-Indonesia feature film co-produced with Kalyana Shira Films released in January 2007.

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  Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU)

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2006

  Senior Executive, Programme Department

  Official Assignments:Executive Producer to the ABU Prizes 2005 Award Ceremony Live Recording in Ha Noi ABU Children’s Drama Co-Production Series 2005 & 2006 ABU Prizes’ Reform Working Party Meeting 2006ABU Tsunami Documentary Co-Productions 2005 ABU Documentary & Children’s TV Programme Item-Exchange Meetings

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  Asian Public Intellectuals (API) Fellowship, Nippon Foundation

  Aug 2006 - Nov 2007

  Fellow

  Visiting Research Scholar at the Institute of Japanese Culture and Classics (IJCC) of Kokugakuin University under Professor Nobutaka Inoue, Director of IJCC and Head of the Faculty of Shinto Studies in Kokugakuin University.Original Research Theme: Spirituality in Japan’s Material UtopiaFinal Report: SPIRITUAL HUNGER AND THE CONSUMPTION OF SPIRITUALITY IN JAPAN (or: Whilst I Search for My Soul in a Soulless Metropolis...)

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  National Film Development Corporation Malaysia (FINAS)

  Sept 2011 - Dec 2012

  Director General

  Heading Malaysia's regulatory and development authority for film & content, reporting directly to the Minister of Information, Communication and Culture, he was Co-Lead and Project Owner for various industry development programmes under the Prime Minister's Economic Transformation Programme.A key achievement was his leadership in preparing and presenting the “Malaysia: A Global Filming Destination & Content Hub for Asia” 30% Production Incentive Proposal and successfully securing for the proposal comprehensive approval from the Economic Council comprising the Prime Minister and his Council of Ministers.He was part of the Malaysian delegation to the 19th ASEAN Summit in Bali in 2011 that brought together all of ASEAN’s Heads of State along with the Heads of State of China, Japan, Korea and the U.S.A., as well as the 5th ASEAN Ministers’ Meeting Responsible for Culture and Arts (AMCA) and the 5th AMCA+3 Ministers’ Meeting in Singapore in 2012.He was particularly involved in seeking feedback, developing, formulating and proposing (or advocating): – precise framework and parameters of co-production treaties (with Australia and with Singapore) – industry transforming tax reform policies– additional capex growth incentives – resisting tax hike growth disincentives– deregulation policies– process streamlining-simplification policies– industry-wide “data rich” “open-book” box-office report sharing system– introduction of a focused, cross-synergy “hub of Asia” film & content market, showcase and financing event– introduction of region-wide digital cinema transmission infrastructure with exclusive source alliances– cross-industry revenue-stream segmenting safeguards– creating parity in opportunity and incentives for local films in all languages– a practical framework for creating and incentivizing a “borderless/barrier-less” ASEAN film & content community– internationalisation of the Malaysian documentary filmmaking practice. Show less

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  Blue In Green Media

  Jan 2013 - Oct 2024

  Film & Content Industry Professional and Industry Development Consultant

  Naguib has been assisting and advising multi-government working groups, international broadcasters and media groups – local and abroad – in developing new models and strategies for industry development and market expansion.Notable Assignments:– Malaysian Co-Representative and Participant to the 8-nation government working group, initiated by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry (METI), organised by Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), for “Research on the Development Potential of the Content Industry in East Asia and the ASEAN region”, involving ministries and government bodies from Japan, China, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines.– Co-Production Coordination Supervisor for the 2-episode International Documentary Co-Production between Fuji Network System (Japan) and Media Prima-Primeworks Studios (Malaysia) for Fuji Network System’s multiple international award-winning series, The Non-Fiction.– Keynote Speaker at the BroadcastAsia2013‘s Creative Content Production Conference in Singapore. Show less

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  Resonance Media International Sdn. Bhd.

  Apr 2013 - Oct 2024

  Founder and Chief Executive Officer

  Resonance Media is a next generation content financier-producer, creating Hollywood quality commercial film, tv & online media content for the global market through our unique, powerful Intellectual Properties (IPs) and special access to other highly prized, difficult to access IPs in Asia.With a comprehensive & highly-regarded team spanning Hollywood, Tokyo, Dubai & Malaysia and a well-thought out, scalable business model, Resonance Media is uniquely positioned to raise the bar in this highly sought global entertainment and media content business. Show less

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  Lalune Light Studio

  Jun 2013 - Feb 2014

  Special Advisor to the Board & Senior Vice-President, Strategic Implementation & Alliances

  Lalune Light Studio was established in 2012 as a Kuala Lumpur-based animation-cum-toys & games licensing & merchandising studio through a joint-venture between Malaysian and Middle Eastern partners, including investment and expertise from the MENA-Asia children & youth edutainment group, Global New Age Media Holding, the largest content provider in Dubai.Internally developing its own intellectual properties and rights, Lalune has started to produce animation series with significant licensing & merchandising opportunities in collaboration with notable American and European expertise, to elevate it from local to international standards. Show less

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  MyCreative Ventures Sdn. Bhd.

  Aug 2019 - Jan 2021

  Chairman

  MyCreative Ventures (MyCreative) is a government investment arm set up to spur Malaysia’s creative industry via strategic and innovative funding in the form of debt or equity investments. MyCreative was incorporated in 2012 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Minister of Finance (Incorporated), reporting to the Ministry of Communications and Multimedia (KKMM) with the mission to achieve the following objectives: 1. Boost the attractiveness of Malaysia’s creative industry measurable by job creation2. Increase gross income from Malaysia’s creative industry to significantly contribute to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP); and3. Elevate the status of Malaysia’s creative industry via public awareness and social impact Show less

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  Voxel Resonance

  Apr 2024 - now

  Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director

  Voxel Resonance Films is a next generation film content aggregator-financier-producer, strategically designed to exploit weaknesses within the Hollywood studio system and streaming platforms’ original content model, focusing initially on the Malaysian-Southeast Asian region, Japanese-Korean-Chinese film markets and the US-UK independent film scene.Deploying its in-depth knowledge of pedigree Intellectual Properties (IPs), especially those beyond easy reach in Hollywood, it aims to create Hollywood quality commercial theatrical films through the IPs currently under its strategic partnerships, special access to other highly prized, difficult to access IPs in Asia and beyond as well as its own self-developed multi-feature IPs.With a comprehensive & highly-regarded team at hand spanning Hollywood, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur and Dubai, and a well-thought out, highly-scalable business model, Voxel Resonance Films is uniquely positioned to raise the bar in this highly sought after global entertainment & media film business. Show less