Shot almost entirely in Bario, Tegkang takes audiences on a journey through Sarawaks hidden highlands (VIDEO)

KUCHING, Nov 28 — Tegkang, another locally-produced movie from Sarawak highlighting a softer yet colourful side of the Kelabit ethnic group, will be screened in cinemas nationwide starting today.

Shot almost entirely in the Bario highlands near the state’s northern city of Miri, the film, which is directed and written by Sarawak’s very own movie maker Josh Nawan, won the First-Time Filmmaker Showcase award in London in September.

“I started writing the script in 2010, but it took years of refining before we were ready to begin filming,” Nawan told a press conference after a media screening of the movie here yesterday.

He said the film, named after the Kelabit word for ‘rainbow’, revolves around a long-held secret guarded by a tightly-knit local …