Who's Shooting What in 2010? Lee Wong

Name of Project: Garlic Cream Puff

Description of Project: 

Ken is just an ordinary young man trying to deal with life. His father has a secret while his mother thinks winning the lottery will make everything okay.

One day, Ken’s colleague-friend Jackson lets him in on a job too good to be true. Enticed by easy money and partly on a dare, Ken agrees to meet Robert, a stranger from the internet. Things are not what they seem... The truth hits closer to home than Ken expected.

He does something that surprises not just Robert, but himself as well.

Project Tagline: A son and father from very different places happen to meet up for very different reasons. What could go right?

Who's Shooting What in 2010? Sanif Olek

Name of Project: Ameen (final film in LOVE trilogy)

Brief synopsis: Johan, a boy who is a familiar character in the mosque (he appears in Lost Sole - the first film in LOVE trilogy) is infatuated with Sharifah and Yati, 2 Madrasah girls who passes the mosque regularly. His queries on how to win the girls' attention led to astonishing results. Would would he do for love?


Brief background: Ameen completes the LOVE trilogy about love and it's implications. Ameen explores spiritual love, faith and dissects conventional perception we have of one another, within and out, in our respective communities. A film for ALL religious (literal/figurative) clubs :)

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Premiere: TBC

Who's Shooting What in 2010? Liao Jie Kai

Name of Project: Red Dragonflies(紅蜻蜓)

Brief Description of Project: Along an abandoned railroad running through dense forest vegetation, housing backyards, and unseen settlements, three youths retrace a trail of iron and wood. At a different part of the island, a man rekindles an old friendship with a woman – a meeting littered with incongruence, absences and traces of childhood dreams. The film is a meditation on states of “looking back”, and “moving on”; the change of times reflected in places, people and memories of a contemporary Singapore.Website: http://13littlepictures.wordpress.com/upcoming-projects/red-dragonflies/

Who's Shooting What in 2010? Leonard Lai

Name of Project : 維護愛 (Protect, My Love) - Feature Film

Brief Description of Project: They met, fell in love, got married, had children, and hand-in-hand they grew old together. This is the love story of our parents. Told in reverse order from the present to the 1960s, it is a tale that is repeated in numerous families, in numerous lives; a tale that will never grow old. 維護愛 (Protect, My Love) follows Ma and Pa as they lives their lives and stay in love through the years - through ups and downs, riches and poor. It is a story of our parents, and also about the times that they have lived in.

Status: In process of raising financing for the film. All interested queries are welcome! :)

Who's Shooting What in 2010? Benjamin Tan

Name of Project: The Girl with the Red Balloons
Brief Description of Project:
The quirky surrealist experimental with a working title of 'The Girl with the Red Balloons' is a tale of reconciliation between mother and daughter. A woman lost in the daily routines of modernity and urbanity is blinded to her daughter's childhood as she presses her to adopt the ways and perceptions of an adult. The mother has grown calloused and desensitized over the years of toiling in the working world that she no longer sees what her daughter does. She is oblivious to her daughter's needs as a child and as a result, they exist on very different planes as they take on opposing perceptions of the world around them.

Who's Shooting What in 2010? Eva Tang

Name of Project:

《天堂情书》第2集《爱是永不止息》

Letters To Heaven Ep2 "Love never ends"

Brief Description of Project:

This is Eva's first attempt directing a TV docu-drama as a hired director. "Letters to Heaven" is based on real letters written in memory of the deceased. Each episode is helmed by different director. Eva wrote & directed episode 2 - "Love never ends" about a father missing his daughter. This completed project will screen on January 9th 9.30pm Channel 8.

Letters To Heaven Ep2 Trailer 天堂情书第2集《爱是永不止息》预告片 from eva tang on Vimeo.

However, Eva has also 2 other projects planned. One is a short film and she is also working on some videos for the Singapore Pavilion at the World Expo in Shanghai this year.

Who's Shooting What in 2010? See Yishu & Heng Shing Kae

Collaboration work between Yishu(Left) and Shing Kae(Right)

Name of Project: Durian Complex

Brief description of project: 

This is actually one of our projects for the NUS Arts Fesitval 2010. The film can be a standalone film but for the upcoming festival, we are presenting it in a form of installation+film where audiences can interact with the sets directly. The film takes a darkly comical look at the lives of a group of neighbours in a university dormitory. The relationship between the five residents of Block A is polite, and despite being proximally close is somewhat superficial – yet highly functional. Meanwhile, behind those doors which shut each other out, each resident faces a turning point in their relationship with someone else who is emotionally close to them – with painful results.



Project Tagline:
"Tell me: What is GREEN, prickly,and full of sweetness?"

Who's Shooting What in 2010? He Shuming

Name of Project: In Labour (Tenaga Buruh)
Brief Description of Project:
Cik arrives on Labour Day to collect rents from her two foreign tenants - Zoe, a Chinese lady from Muar who works in a photocopy shop in an old shopping centre, and Purple, a study mama from Guangzhou working in a factory here with a young son Ah Yi. She then offers to take care of him while the two ladies set off to work.
This is a short film of these three women, their relationships with the city and among themselves, each wanting more in this land they call home.

In Labour is He Shuming's thesis short film in the BA (Hon) Film programme at The Puttnam School of Film, LASALLE College of The Arts.

Who's Shooting What in 2010? Kan Lume

Name of Project: SCENT
Brief Description of Project: This was shot for Tropfest in Australia. About a boy with Daddy issues and a girl with an acute sense of smell. She uses her gift to help him locate his father. It takes place in a secondhand bookshop."

Who's Shooting What in 2010? David Liu & Linus Chen

David Liu(Black,in Lorry) on the "assassin mission"

Name of Project: Steadfast
Brief description of Project:
Probably the most ambitious and biggest modern action film made in Singapore, the film features a cast of over 50 people, military and police gun-blazing sequences and a motorcade of BMWs.
Steadfast is a non-profit independent film made by two very ambitious young directors from Singapore. The film is supported by The Singapore Film Commission, Canon Singapore, Samsonite and other private sponsors. Brief Synopsis:
The chairman of an international defense systems corporation attempts to reveal a major financial cover-up, but finds himself the target of an assassin. Only a lone government agent is sent to neutralize the killer, but soon discovers a larger, more sinister scheme at work than a simple hit.
Project Tagline: In a violent world where the strongest survive, can the hope for peace still remain steadfast?

Who's Shooting What in 2010? Kenny Tan

Name of Project: 3 Days Grace

Brief Description of Project: A tough 38 year-old boxing instructor who left home 17 years ago is located by a government social worker to attend to his ailing father for 3 days before the old man's transition into a nursing home. Putting aside his boxing gloves for adult diapers, father and son are forced to reconcile their differences under awkward terms for the next 36 hours.

Project Tagline: This is not a story about forgiveness, but a story about acceptance.

Who's Shooting What in 2010? Leon Cheo

Name of Project: 三朵花 (The Three Sisters)
Brief Description of Project: Over an evening of Chinese Opera at the Esplanade theatre, the peacemaker of three sisters (in their seniority), Poh Sim, must survive a night with them, coming to terms that she loves her sisters but they also drive her mad.
Project Tagline: All one really has is family.

Who's Shooting What in 2010? Ang Soo Koon

Name of Project: The Wave/Waifs

Brief description of project: Short film on brooms
Project Tagline: A development from a recent installation based on the same title, "The Waves/Waifs)
http://www.sookoonang.com

Who's Shooting What in 2010? Daniel Hui

Name of Project: Night Lights

Brief description of Project:

Night Lights is about a young woman who has just married a man 20 years her senior. A minor incident at a dinner party causes her husband to get angry with her, and she realizes that they hardly know each other at all. At night, she falls asleep angry and confused. She dreams of a boy she met at the party earlier, or is she merely part of the boy’s dreams – they never know. Free from the cares of the real world, they spend a night of romance and wonder together. But soon they realize, that in the morning they must wake…

Who's Shooting What in 2010? Jacen Tan

Name of project: RUDRA - Hymns from the Blazing Chariot
Brief Description of Project:

RUDRA - Hymns from the Blazing Chariot is a heavy metal re-imagination of the ancient Sanskrit text, The Bhagavad Gita. Before the start of the Kurukshetra War, Prince Arjuna is reluctant to go into battle as he has to fight his relatives, beloved friends and revered teachers. In desperation, Arjuna turns to his charioteer and mentor, Krishna for advice.
This epic video will go officially live on You Tube in 2010.

Who's Shooting What in 2010? Yong Mun Chee

Mun Chee on the right

Name of Project: Hollywood Untitled

Brief Description of Project:
Four men from four corners of the world fatefully cross paths at a cheap hotel on Hollywood boulevard. In a world divided they discover they have more in common than they ever could have imagined. This is a 88 min feature length that has a stellar cast that includes the following names: Eric Mabius (Ugly Betty, Resident Evil), Laura Ramsey (She’s the one, the Ruins), Fernando Noriega (Glam Girls, Se busca un hombre), Elsa Pataky (Máncora, Snakes on a Plane), Will Yun Lee (Die Another Day, Elektra, What’s cooking?), Jesse Garcia (Quinceañera), Emmanuelle Vaugier (Saw II & IV), Luke Brandon Field, Erick Avari (The Mummy, Planet of the Apes)

Who's Shooting What in 2010? Ting Szu Kiong

Szu Kiong with his white thinking cap

Name of Project: The Vampire King (working title)
Brief Description of Project: Yan Zhen Shan (Sunny Pang), Chen, Tang (Colin Ho) and other men enter an abandoned mansion to seek Tu Lai, the undead. They vow to kill this most powerful vampire to end the menace that prowl in the shadowy streets of colonial Singapore. Instead of finding the monster, they destroy and burn the boxes of soil that gives the undead its energy. As the men return to Tang's asylum for the mentally sick, they find the lunatic Wang Bu Lao (Vincent Tee) dead and Chen's wife seduced by Tu Lai.

Project Tagline: Singapore's short period thriller that is adapted from Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Who's Shooting What in 2010? Kelvin Sng

Name of project: Untitled Maia Lee Music Video (her very first!)
Brief description of project: 
See Maia crooning in Mandarin and kicking ass as a Muay Thai boxer in the MV!
Project Tagline: If it's painful, you know you are in love.

Who's Shooting What in 2010? Lai WeiJie & Elizabeth Wijaya

Name of Project: For I've Loved
Brief Description of Project: An intimate story set amidst the epic Angkor temples, “For I’ve Loved” is about love lost and love found. Marie-Faith, young hopeful and optimistic, has had a whirlwind romance with Harold, the older gentleman who has swept her off her feet with his charm and wit. Now married, they are on honeymoon in Cambodia. But things do not go as planned and the honeymoon ends in tragedy. Over the years, Marie-Faith returns alone to Cambodia to come to terms with what happened.
Project Tagline: Can true love happen twice?