Mda-backed Sgiff (Dec 4-14) is part of Singapore Media Festival.
The 25th Singapore International Film Festival (Sgiff) has announced its line-up with 147 films from 50 countries. After a hiatus of two years, the Sgiff will open as part of the Singapore Media Festival, which also comprises the Asia TV Forum & Market (Atf), ScreenSingapore (SS) and Asian Television Awards (Ata).
Hosted by the Media Development Authority (Mda), the Singapore Media Festival (and Sgiff) will run Dec 4-14.
Sgiff will open with Ken Kwek’s Singaporean thriller Unlucky Plaza, which premiered in Toronto last month. Making a feature directorial debut with the film, Kwek previously was screenwriter on films such as Glen Goei’s The Blue Mansion and Kelvin Tong’s It’s A Great, Great World.
The festival will close with Lucky Kuswandi’s Indonesian film In The Absence Of The Sun. A film the follows three women in the megacity of Jakara, it is Kuswandi...
The 25th Singapore International Film Festival (Sgiff) has announced its line-up with 147 films from 50 countries. After a hiatus of two years, the Sgiff will open as part of the Singapore Media Festival, which also comprises the Asia TV Forum & Market (Atf), ScreenSingapore (SS) and Asian Television Awards (Ata).
Hosted by the Media Development Authority (Mda), the Singapore Media Festival (and Sgiff) will run Dec 4-14.
Sgiff will open with Ken Kwek’s Singaporean thriller Unlucky Plaza, which premiered in Toronto last month. Making a feature directorial debut with the film, Kwek previously was screenwriter on films such as Glen Goei’s The Blue Mansion and Kelvin Tong’s It’s A Great, Great World.
The festival will close with Lucky Kuswandi’s Indonesian film In The Absence Of The Sun. A film the follows three women in the megacity of Jakara, it is Kuswandi...
- 10/28/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Unlucky Plaza to open festival; 147 films from 50 countries.
The 25th Singapore International Film Festival (Sgiff) has announced its line-up with 147 films from 50 countries.
After a hiatus of two years, the Sgiff will open as part of the Singapore Media Festival, which also comprises the Asia TV Forum & Market (Atf), ScreenSingapore (SS) and Asian Television Awards (Ata).
Hosted by the Media Development Authority (Mda), the Singapore Media Festival (and Sgiff) will run Dec 4-14.
Sgiff will open with Ken Kwek’s Singaporean thriller Unlucky Plaza, which premiered in Toronto last month. Making a feature directorial debut with the film, Kwek previously was screenwriter on films such as Glen Goei’s The Blue Mansion and Kelvin Tong’s It’s A Great, Great World.
The fest will close with Lucky Kuswandi’s Indonesian film In The Absence Of The Sun. The film the follows three women in the megacity of Jakara, it is Kuswandi’s second feature after [link=tt...
The 25th Singapore International Film Festival (Sgiff) has announced its line-up with 147 films from 50 countries.
After a hiatus of two years, the Sgiff will open as part of the Singapore Media Festival, which also comprises the Asia TV Forum & Market (Atf), ScreenSingapore (SS) and Asian Television Awards (Ata).
Hosted by the Media Development Authority (Mda), the Singapore Media Festival (and Sgiff) will run Dec 4-14.
Sgiff will open with Ken Kwek’s Singaporean thriller Unlucky Plaza, which premiered in Toronto last month. Making a feature directorial debut with the film, Kwek previously was screenwriter on films such as Glen Goei’s The Blue Mansion and Kelvin Tong’s It’s A Great, Great World.
The fest will close with Lucky Kuswandi’s Indonesian film In The Absence Of The Sun. The film the follows three women in the megacity of Jakara, it is Kuswandi’s second feature after [link=tt...
- 10/28/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: At ScreenSingapore, local production house 13 Little Pictures has announced cinematographer Christopher Doyle is attached to shoot director Glen Goei’s upcoming Yellow Flowers, a.k.a. The Hangman’s Breakfast.
Written by awardwinning playwright Haresh Sharma, the 2011 Asian Project Market (Apm) film will be produced by mm2 Entertainment and 13 Little Pictures.
Touching upon the controversial issue of Singapore’s long-time hangman, Yellow Flowers tells the story of a multiracial group of Singaporeans: middle-aged single mother Eleanor, on death row for unknowingly smuggling drugs into the strict city state, her rebellious only child who refuses to visit her, Eleanor’s young lawyer Nadya who also has issues with her own mother, and the prison’s reluctant executioner Gopal, who develops a friendship with Eleanor.
Originally a theatre director and actor whose credits include playing opposite Anthony Hopkins in M. Butterfly in London, Goei’s debut feature Forever Fever (1998) was the first Singaporean film to go to Sundance...
Written by awardwinning playwright Haresh Sharma, the 2011 Asian Project Market (Apm) film will be produced by mm2 Entertainment and 13 Little Pictures.
Touching upon the controversial issue of Singapore’s long-time hangman, Yellow Flowers tells the story of a multiracial group of Singaporeans: middle-aged single mother Eleanor, on death row for unknowingly smuggling drugs into the strict city state, her rebellious only child who refuses to visit her, Eleanor’s young lawyer Nadya who also has issues with her own mother, and the prison’s reluctant executioner Gopal, who develops a friendship with Eleanor.
Originally a theatre director and actor whose credits include playing opposite Anthony Hopkins in M. Butterfly in London, Goei’s debut feature Forever Fever (1998) was the first Singaporean film to go to Sundance...
- 12/4/2013
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Danish producer Lene Børglum, Australian producer Sue Milliken ("Black Robe," "Paradise Road"), and "Drive" director Nicolas Winding Refn are all seat to team on a drug running feature.
English cinematographer Larry Smith ("Bronson," "Only God Forgives") will make his feature directing debut on the project entitled "Trafficker." Ken Kwek ("The Blue Mansion") penned the script which is being described as an Australian movie set in the Vietnamese-run drug world.
Børglum and Smith were in Melbourne last week scouting locations and seeking financial and distributor support. Børglum, Milliken, and Refn’s Space Rocket Nation will co-produce the feature.
Source: Deadline...
English cinematographer Larry Smith ("Bronson," "Only God Forgives") will make his feature directing debut on the project entitled "Trafficker." Ken Kwek ("The Blue Mansion") penned the script which is being described as an Australian movie set in the Vietnamese-run drug world.
Børglum and Smith were in Melbourne last week scouting locations and seeking financial and distributor support. Børglum, Milliken, and Refn’s Space Rocket Nation will co-produce the feature.
Source: Deadline...
- 11/19/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
There a few people who boast working with both Stanley Kubrick and Nicolas Winding Refn, and one of them is cinematographer Larry Smith. Starting his career as the chief electrician on "Barry Lyndon," and then a gaffer on "The Shining," Smith became a cameraman on "Eyes Wide Shut" before moving on to work on a select number of movies as a cinematographer including Refn's "Fear X," "Marple: Nemesis," "Bronson" and the upcoming "Only God Forgives." Now, he's gearing up to make his directorial debut. Smith will make his feature debut with "Trafficker," which as the title suggests, is a film set in the Vietnamese drug world. The script has been penned by Ken Kwek, who wrote the comedy/thriller "The Blue Mansion" which Smith also shot. Financing is currently being raised and location scouting is under way for the Aussie project that we presume will shoot next year once all the pieces come.
- 11/19/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
It’s somewhat of a mystery why Singaporean writer director Kelvin Tong isn’t better known than he is, having helmed one of the better modern Asian ghost films in “The Maid”, found success with romance in “Love Story”, and conquered Hong Kong with his awesomely unpredictable “Rule No.1”. For his latest outing “Kidnapper”, Tong returned to Singapore, trying something different with one of the country’s very rare hard boiled crime thrillers, co-scripting along with Ken Kwek (“The Blue Mansion”). A fast paced tale of child snatching and desperate deceptions, the film stars popular local television actor Christopher Lee (“The Shaolin Warriors”) in the lead, with Jack Lim (“Ah Long Pte Ltd”) as the ruthless villain of the title. Lee plays Lim, a taxi driver whose wife has abandoned him and his young son Wei Siang, leaving him struggling to make ends meet. His life is one day thrown...
- 6/2/2011
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
Singapore director Glen Goei’s upcoming film, The Blue Mansion has been selected to open in the “Window on Asian Cinema” at the 14th Pusan International Film Festival (Piff) this year. Glen’s first feature film That’s The Way I Like It / Forever Fever was one of Singapore’s earlier films which had its world rights picked up by Miramax, and it’s been a long 11 years since for his second feature film to be made and to hit the big screen.
With a cast of thespian talent from both Singapore and Malaysia, and backed by an international production crew, I’m having quite high hopes for this film, possibly the final local film to be released this year in Singapore, scheduled for October 22nd. But for those who will be heading toward Pusan in early October, you’re in luck to catch its World Premiere there!
Here’s...
With a cast of thespian talent from both Singapore and Malaysia, and backed by an international production crew, I’m having quite high hopes for this film, possibly the final local film to be released this year in Singapore, scheduled for October 22nd. But for those who will be heading toward Pusan in early October, you’re in luck to catch its World Premiere there!
Here’s...
- 8/25/2009
- by Stefan
- Screen Anarchy
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