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Primajaya

The synopsis of this film is about a young man who is a geeky fan of comics and works as a waiter in a restaurant. One day he took matters in his own hands and made his own costume to fight the out of control crimes in the fictional city of Primajaya and as one of his videos got viral, people started to call him ‘Bahlol’ a.k.a idiot.

Little did he know that got himself in a whole lot of trouble when a drug lord named Eric finds out that Bahlol is the reason for all of his business to be shut down by the Primajaya Police.

With determination, Bahlol is a character that is living up on his own will to stop the increasing number of crimes in this fictional city called Primajaya.

*Note: Primajaya is the official film title. It was originally called "Bahlol" a.k.a "Idiot and was changed due to censorship board of Brunei Darussalam.

  • Adam Groves
    Director
  • Adam Groves
    Writer
  • Imelda Groves
    Producer
  • Hazim Hamzah
    Key Cast
    "Zack"
  • Aliff Ali
    Key Cast
    "Fadil"
  • Kenny Yong
    Key Cast
    "Kenny"
  • Jonathan Chen
    Key Cast
    "Eric"
  • Deewi Hamdilah
    Key Cast
    "Nadia"
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Genres:
    Action/Comedy
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 39 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    September 15, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    2,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Brunei Darussalam
  • Country of Filming:
    Brunei Darussalam
  • Language:
    English, Malay
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2:35
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Adam Groves

Adam Groves has been an independent film director since 2006 and is well known in Brunei Darussalam as a pioneer to introduce internet web-series. He succeed to open up the capabilities of shooting web-series and short films by using a DSLR and exposing them up on Youtube.

Adam Groves has achieved lot of positive feedbacks when it comes to indie style shooting from handheld and instant rectro-scripting (directing a film on the spot without scripts) and turning it into a trend and trademark.

His dreams from the beginning of picking up his first camera was to shoot his first feature film after watching a Malaysian indie film called "Ciplak" (2006) which only had a budget of $10,000 (Malaysian Dollars) and only used friends who volunteered to be part of the movie. Adam thought he could pull this off himself without any filmmaking backgrounds whatsoever. His first trial was a flop.

He tried doing short films and web-series to gain his full confident in a proper script-writing and directing and also building a strong reputation in the Brunei film industry which later known by many.

10 Years later, he launched his first feature film "Primajaya" in 2016 with a budget of (USD2,000) and had lots of positive feedbacks. He is currently working on a second feature film.

He also runs a company called Visual Dimensions Production which specializes in TV Commercials, Corporate Films and Music Videos.

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