Singapore film about teen misfits1 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLocal independent director Tzang Merwyn Tong, 36, will release his debut feature film here at the end of the month, after its world premiere in Los Angeles in January.
The 95-minute Faeryville is billed as a dystopian teen movie set in the alternate universe of Faeryville College. It tells the story of the Nobodies, a group of misfits resigned to their fate – until new student Laer encourages them to stand up for themselves.
The film is not Tong’s only work with fantastical, surreal elements. His 2011 sci-fi thriller V1K1 – A Techno Fairytale features a scientist obsessed with proving the existence of fairies, and e’Tzaintes (2003) is also set in Faeryville College and has the outcasts trying and failing to form a resistance group. Both are short films.
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