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Financing your film......how important are your friends?
(still from Leon Cheo's 'Three Sisters')As filmmakers, your ‘normal’ friends’ reaction to knowing that you make films never fails to bring about a sense of dejavu. ‘Wow! You are a movie director! Can...
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Review - 'Song of the Firebird' by Tay Hong Cheng (NTU ADM Film Class of 2013)
The experiment behind the experimental short film “Song of the Firebird” is presumably to execute a character study while dispensing minimum plot-related details. This film is probably about the...
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Review - 'Charades of Time' by Low Ser En (NTU ADM Film Class of 2013)
In “Charades of Time”, a time traveller falls in love with a seamstress from the past. They face the problem of living in two separate timelines as time passes differently for them. A year in the time...
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Review - 'Abang' by Dzafirul Haniff (NTU ADM Film Class of 2013)
‘Abang’ Dzafirul’s graduating film is a simple chemistry of actors comfortable in their own skin blending in with each other in a unassuming script about family tension and brotherhood. An older...
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Review - 'The Transplants' by Tan Jing Liang (NTU ADM Film Class of 2013)
Tan Jing Liang’s ‘The Transplants’ stands in sharp contrast to Dzafirul’s ‘Abang’ in the way plays out tension and angst in repressive manifestations under deliberate directorial strokes. Reminiscent...
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Review - 'The Last Shoe' by Evelyn Chen (NTU ADM Film Class of 2013)
‘The Last Shoe’ by Evelyn Chen, for fear of sounding boring, a competent, conventional attempt at telling a story about memories, time and love. But it makes it so ‘sedap!’ (Malay for delicious). In...
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Review - 'Fullout The Musical' by Daniel 'Bob' Ng (NTU ADM Film Class of 2013)
“Fullout the Musical” is very much a student production in two respects. Firstly, the dance sequences shot on the NTU campus bears an uncanny resemblance to the videos calculated to promote vibrant...
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ShoutOUT: Results of ciNE65 Short Film Competition out this Wed!
'That's my vote!' The jury of ciNE65 was split over several films.ciNE65, the 3-min film competition where you get to see Singaporeans interpret the idea of home, will be announcing the winners for...
View ArticleCine65 2013 - There is something about student entries....
What can you do when your creativity is limited with a theme? Prove the judges wrong by stretching it as far as you can go! Looking through student entries, I have come to these 3 conclusions:1) as...
View ArticleCine65 2013 - On YouTube and GV
It's just a short few hours away till the awards ceremony for Cine65. Voting has ceased as or 2359H of 8 July and now audience votes will be accounted for. If you hadn't had the chance to vote, then it...
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Mohammed Yahssir and the Hollywood wind - An Interview
In 2010, Singapore filmmaker Mohammed Yahssir (pictured above on the right) won Project PDA(check out our interview with him in 2010), almost a filmmaker's version of The Apprentice. PDA stands for a...
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SINdie's Nationwide Survey: My Favourite Singapore Film of All Time
Click Here to Enter the SurveyA long time ago, in a tiny island called Singapore, people were making films.But the few who called themselves "filmmakers" often went unnoticed.A recent win at Cannes...
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cINE65 2013, it's a wrap!
PG family friendly picture of SINdie editor receiving le appreciation from Minister Chan Chun Sing. FYI, Jeremy was a judge for this year's cINE65!9th July 2013... Cine65 Prize Presentation Night. To...
View Articlepost cINE65 - On home and other thoughts
Leading up to National Day, a day where Kit Chan warbled Home which still remains as one of the most well known, well loved National Day theme song people relate to and recall fondly of those days. On...
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Off the Record with filmmaker Kent Chan and his installantion 'It's Only Talk'
In the spirit of experimentation, audiences attending this year's Experimental Film Forum at the Substation experienced something new. They were able to verbally engage themselves in the 'forum' by...
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Singapore Film Society Presents: Kim Ki-duk's "Pieta"
(As part of a new series, we will be covering special screenings organized by the Singapore Film Society.)Kim Ki-duk is, and has been since the start of his career, a polarizing figure in Korean...
View Articlepost ciNE65 - Observations on Nostalgia
Nostalgia of Old SingaporeNostalgia :NounA sentimental longing for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations. The evocation of these feelings or tendencies, esp. in...
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Joel Yuen on 'Untitled (Working Class)' - shown at the 4th Experimental Film...
The 4th Experimental Film Forum was held at The Substation from 27 to 30 June 2013. It featured several new local works that were provocative, humorous and visually arresting. SINdie caught up with two...
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Review - 'Tadpoles' by Ivan Tan (NTU Filament Showcase)
The film Tadpoles places the power of family and of nature to the test. Which may be stronger?The film wishes to explore the understanding of family relationships within everyday urban spaces such as...
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Review – 'Hidden Folk' by Thong Kay Wee (NTU Filament Showcase)
A highly celebrated 'Golden Girl of Singapore' faces a downward spiral turmoil as her past heinous mistake start to surface to the eyes of the public. Lilian Mah, at the peak of her career, is...
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