Hassan Abd Muthalib

Hassan Muthalib is a self-taught artist, animator, writer, director, and film critic with a career spanning sixty years. He has made animated commercials, short films, public service advertisements, documentaries, and directed Malaysia’s first animated feature film. He has been a part-time lecturer at many leading universities in Malaysia and overseas, including being a Visiting Scholar at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2011) where he was acknowledged as an Asian Animation Pioneer. He has curated animation programmes for Germany, Hungary and Singapore, as well as being on the jury of many international film festivals. Among the awards he has received are the prestigious Merdeka Award in 2018 from Petronas/Shell/Exxon Mobil, and an Honorary Masters in 2009 from Universiti Teknologi MARA. In December 2025, he will be conferred an Honorary PhD by Aswara. His research and writings on film and animation have been published locally and internationally. He has authored four books on film and animation: Malaysian Cinema in a Bottle (2013), 70 years of Malaysian animation (2016), Mamat Khalid: Storyteller/Artiste/Director, and A Guide for Movie Addicts and Cinephiles (2023). His fifth is an update of the first one on Malaysian cinema in 2013, and will be published in 2026. He is currently an independent writer and film critic.

Having done something that inspires or motivates others. Creating something of benefit to the masses.