Kota Kinabalu: Bringing to the screen the real-life experience of the first person from this part of the world to end up in the Big Apple in 1936 took four years of dedication and research.
This included numerous face-to-face meetings with the children of Saudin Labutau, the first descendant of a Murut headhunter from Kg Ambual in Keningau to experience the dizzying heights of New York like no one else in Borneo then did.
Noraini Rahman, a history buff, was so engrossed with Saudin’s travel exploits that she even forked out her own money to visit the places where Saudin walk
