Making a Singpore film in Tamil

MOST of the members of his team may not have understood his film, but that didn’t stop N. Mohamed Yahssir’s short Tamil film, CheckMATE, from bagging four awards at the Panasonic Digital Film Fiesta. The 25-year-old freelance television and film director and producer’s 11-minute movie that follows a conversation between a nine-year-old boy and a 50-year-old man over a chess game won the Best Film, Best Cinematography and Audience Favourite Film awards at the competition.