Singapore Shorts Film Festival
dal 10/11/2002 al 17/11/2002
Segnalato da
10/11/2002
Singapore Shorts Film Festival
The Substation Gallery, Singapore
This year's festival attracted a greater number of entrants from all over the world - an achievement for such a young festival! There will also be talks and workshops by award-winning local and overseas filmmakers.
More entrants and films in The Substation's annual festival for short films
Singapore Shorts Film Festival, Singapore's premiere dedicated international short film festival by The Substation - A Home for the Arts, returns for its second year with an increased number of film entries from all around the world. Launched in December last year, this year's festival will take place from 11 - 17 November 2002 in The Substation's Guinness Theatre.
Singapore Shorts Film Festival 2002 received over 100 entries worldwide, up from 80 plus last year - quite an achievement for such a young festival! Short film entries came from countries like India, USA, Australia, Romania, Argentina, and of course Singapore, and are of all genres - animation, narrative, documentary and experimental.
"Singapore Shorts embodies the philosophies of The Substation - it looks beyond genres and cultural differences and really wants to showcase originality and what we have termed 'Voice' - that is, the pure expression of ideas from the filmmaker," explains Yuni Hadi, Programme Executive, Film.
Last year, the festival gave out VOICE Awards to three filmmakers, one of which was to local filmmaker, Royston Tan, for his short film "Mother" which premiered at the festival. The other two VOICE Awards went to Richard Doherty for "My Chorus" and Todd Korgan for "The Man with the Empty Room", both from the USA.
Who will walk away with this year's three VOICE Awards? Audiences attending the festival will get to vote from six entries chosen by a panel of judges for the coveted awards. Judges this year include actor Adrian Pang, filmmakers Wee Li Lin and CheeK, film producer Juan Foo, and The Substation's Artistic Co-Director, Audrey Wong.
Fifty-five short films have been shortlisted for screening during the seven day run, and will be preceded by talks or workshops by award-winning local and foreign filmmakers such as Sun Koh, Tan Pin Pin, Felix Cheong and Graham Streeter.
This year, the festival will adopt a "Pay What You Want" scheme and The Substation hopes that audiences will give value to the works they will be watching by contributing generously to help and support The Substation to continue running its film programmes.
The 2nd Singapore Shorts Film Festival is sponsored by Lee Foundation and the Singapore Film Commission.
SCHEDULE
2nd Singapore Shorts Film Festival
11 November 2002, Monday
7pm > Talk: Scriptwriting Tips: From Short Films to Features by Royston Tan
8pm > Short Film Screening:
3 Feet Apart by Jason Lai (Singapore)
Angela's Ashes by Alexander Ng, Damien Borowik & Sung Hoon Kang (U.K.)
Antenna: Image/Sign/Symbol by Wendy Phua (Singapore)
The Attendant by Jan Reichie (Australia)
Bidadari by Md Yazer B Abd. Aziz (Singapore)
Birds of Paradise by Lawrence Yeap (Singapore)
Botanitopia by Ben Folstein (USA)
Coffee for Two by Bharani V. Setlur (India)
Special Screening: 15 by Royston Tan (Singapore)
12 November 2002, Tuesday
7pm > Talk: DV Short Filmmaking by Graham Streeter
8pm > Short Film Screening:
Danny by Kristin Saw (Singapore)
Daydream by Gozde Zehnder (Singapore)
The Deal by Anuj Nair (Singapore)
Dottie: The Little Girl with the Big Voice by Dawn Westlake (USA)
Ducklings by Matthew Phan (USA)
Elixir by William Lim (Singapore)
Fear by Jonathan Lim (USA)
Foreign Dreams by Elgin Ho (Singapore)
Special Screening: Postcard Series films
13 November 2002, Wednesday
7pm > Talk: Scriptwriting Tips: Documentary by Tan Pin Pin & Sherman Ong
8pm > Short Film Screening:
Grandpa & I by Cheng Yu Chao (Singapore)
The Ground I Stand by Sherman Ong (Singapore)
Home by Gwynn Wong (Singapore)
Hope by Hayashida Ken (Singapore)
Il Consigliere by Marcus Lim (Singapore)
Insomnia by Alan Sim (Singapore)
Special Screening: Waiting by Aditya Assarat (Thailand)
14 November 2002, Thursday
7pm > Talk: Scriptwriting Tips: Crafting Ideas Creating Characters by Lionel Chok
8pm > Short Film Screening:
An Invitation to Lunch by Gabriel Sibu (Romania)
I've Never Walked Out of a Movie Before by Bianca Barling (Australia)
Lalla & The Forest by Woo Joung Kim (Australia)
Los Banditos by Kelvin Ke (Singapore)
Losing It by Alexander K.H. Ng (Singapore)
Mistake by Donavan Chan (UK)
My Family by Wong Kwang Han (Singapore)
My Visual Diary by Mark Sun (Singapore)
Special Screening: Moving House by Tan Pin Pin (Singapore)
15 November 2002, Friday
7pm > Talk: Scriptwriting Tips: Short Film by Sun Koh
8pm > Short Film Screening:
One Track Vision by Tania Sng (Singapore)
Realism vs. Paranormal by Yvonne Tan (Singapore)
The Sanctuary by Mark Sun (Singapore)
The Spring by Lim Shoo Wen (Singapore)
The Storage Room by Jeremy Drummond (Canada-USA)
Suburban Discipline by Jeremy Drummond (Canada-USA)
Supermarket Ballerina by Howard Collinge (Singapore)
Sweet by Hayashida Ken (Singapore)
Special Screening : The Secret Heaven by Sun Koh (Singapore)
16 November 2002, Saturday
11am - 1pm > Workshop: Basic Film Appreciation by Felix Cheong
2pm - 6pm > Workshop: Before 'Action!' - Pre-production for a Short Film (Day 1) by Graham Streeter
8pm > Short Film Screening:
Gong Gong by Lau Chee Nien (Singapore)
Happy Birthday Sharon by Gozde and Russel Zehnder (Singapore)
Jeremiah Strong by Kevin Shaw (USA)
La Capsula by Pablo Alba (Argentina)
Model AR 185 by Jeffrey Tham (Singapore)
The Postal Rule by Andrew Kong (Singapore)
Q by Jeremy Weinstein (Australia)
Saturday Afternoon 3.37pm - Death by Leslie Tan (Singapore)
The Talent for Survival by Tan Boon Hui (Singapore)
17 November 2002, Sunday
2pm - 6pm > Workshop: Before 'Action!' - Pre-production for a Short Film (Day 2) by Graham Streeter
7pm > Talk: Music for Film by Joe Ng
8pm > Short Film Screening:
Teen Ghante Door by Jessica Gupta (India)
Theta O by Amon Amitai (Israel)
They Shoot Hostages, Don't They? by Colin Cairnes & Gerasimos Grammenos (Australia)
Thirtieth Street by Patricia Tan (USA)
Timecycles by James Speck (USA-India)
Toiletduck by Jason Ho (Singapore)
The World According to William by Chew Kuan Hock (Singapore)
Writer's Block by Lionel Chok (Singapore)
Special Screening: Pinball by Han Yew Kwang (Singapore)
Announcement of VOICE Winners
For more information, please contact:
§ Ms Juliana Chong
Marketing Manager
The Substation Ltd
Tel: (65) 6 337 7535
Fax: (65) 6 337 2729