Fat Bidin Sdn Bhd has almost two decades of experience creating non-fiction storytelling via multimedia platforms as well as media and communication training and consultancy.

When it comes to content creation, videos have been one of Fat Bidin specialties, where documentaries, TV and online news packages and social media videos covering all kinds of issues from politics, conflict, preventing and countering violent extremism, culture, arts and campaigns (political, governmental, social-activism) have been produced over the years. Our clients and grantors have included; broadcast and online media outlets like CNN, Al Jazeera, TRT World, BBC, Channel News Asia, Astro AWANI, Media Prima, VPRO TV and Malaysiakini; governmental agencies and politicians like Southeast Asia Regional Centre for Counter Terrorism (SEARCCT), the Malaysian Minister of Education, the Malaysian Minister of Domestic Trade and Cost of Living and the US Embassy Kuala Lumpur; as well as non-profit and non-governmental agencies like Think City, The Japan Foundation, The Asia Foundation and the Centre for Independent Journalism. We also delve in other mediums such as audio, photography and writing.

Among the trainings and consultation that we have conducted include various workshops and lectures on media strategies on countering violent extremism narratives for agencies like the Southeast Asia Centre for Counter-Terrorism (SEARCCT), media relations consultancy for the former Minister of Education, Dr Maszlee Malik, and the late Minister of Domestic Trade and Cost of Living, Salahuddin Ayub, as well as crisis communication simulations and media training for agencies like Lembaga Pembiayaan Perumahan Sektor Awam (LPPSA), Khazanah Nasional and Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) as well as journalism training for professional journalists.

As you can see from this website, we also create a lot of our own unique content for our own platforms.

If you see that our ideals are aligned with yours, contact us and maybe we can collaborate!

Fat Bidin Sdn Bhd’s primaries are:

ZAN AZLEE (SUPER DUPER CHIEF INSPECTOR – FOUNDER, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER)

Zan Azlee is a multi-disciplinary media professional based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. As an independent filmmaker, Zan produced and directed films that have screened at local and international film festivals such as the Malaysian Video Awards, Berlin International Film Festival, Bangkok International Film Festival, New York Asian-American Film Festival and Singapore International Documentary Film Festival. His documentaries have won awards at the Festival Filem Malaysia, Anugerah Seri Angkasa and Malaysian Video Awards.

Zan has written six non-fiction books; Liberal, Malay and Malaysian (2017), JOURNO-DAD! The chronicles of a journalist who happens to be a father (2016), Guide to Independent Filmmaking (2015), The Adventures of a KL-ite in Afghanistan (2014), Operation Nasi Kerabu: Finding Patani in an Islamic Insurgency (2007) and A guide to the Internet (2003).

As a journalist, Zan has reported for local and international news organisations such as The Sun (Malaysia), The Malaysian Insider, Malaysiakini, ntv7, Astro AWANI, BFM, Al Jazeera, CNN, BBC, TRT World, Global Post and VPRO TV. He also specialises in solo-journalism whereby he produces videos and photos as a one-man-crew. He is a conflict journalist who has covered conflict in areas like Afghanistan, Egypt, Turkey, Lebanon and Syria as well as major crises like MH370, MH17, the 2006 earthquake in Jogjakarta and the Rohingya refugee influx at the border of Myanmar and Bangladesh. His last newsroom role was as Senior News Editor at Astro AWANI.

Zan holds a MA in Broadcast Journalism from Staffordshire University, UK, and is an adjunct university lecturer at University of Wollongong Malaysia, IACT and Inti University-College. He is also regularly invited to conduct lectures, talks and workshops. He has spoken at University of California Berkeley, Prince Songkhla University Thailand and at the World Islamic Economic Forum, to name a few.

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SHERIL A. BUSTAMAN (PARTNER, PRODUCER)

Sheril A. Bustaman is a writer & producer based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. With almost 10 years of experience in the industry, Sheril began her filmmaking career as an undergraduate in Monash University Malaysia where she produced shorts films & documentaries under the Filmmaker-in-Residence program. She has also shot documentaries focusing on the indigenous peoples in the Philippines and screened her debut documentary – Come Hell or High Water – at several festivals including the Bangkok International Film Festival and the Kota Kinabalu International Film Festival.

Under Fat Bidin Sdn Bhd, Sheril has produced several documentaries centred on conflict, the most recent one being Perempuan Radikal that aired on Astro AWANI as well as the 3R series on radicalised detainees, a project in collaboration with the Southeast Asian Regional Centre for Counter Terrorism and the National Prisons Department.

Sheril is also a freelance writer and writes for several publications, both online and print such as SINdie – an independent online publication on film and Calibre, a print magazine by the Public Mutual group. She also actively collaborates with NGOs and CSOs on work pertaining to women & gender issues.

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