For the Love of the Medium. A note to all short film makers:
You want to craft something, do you not? So practice and develop your craft first. Survival for the filmmaker is conditioned...
The Torch: Earth Review
You might have missed it, but one notable entry from Singapore made it into the 66th Venice Film Festival earlier this...
Singapore Panorama Shorts 2 – Review
In 2008, SIFF successfully introduced a new section to its programming, called Singapore Panorama. That year, local film production was at...
Film Review: ‘Brother No 2’
Screening at SIFF under the Singapore Panorama section this year was another politically aware documentary feature called “Brother No. 2" by...
HERE – Review
It opens on a black screen and to traffic noise. A man returns home from work, sits down to read the...
White Days – Review
Are you feeling blue? Depressed? Or is it rather black-and-white, with a little more contrast to show? The latter in any...
Interview: Royston Tan, (“No other festival can replace SIFF!”)
Interview with Singapore Film Awards Winner, Royston Tan Mathias Ortmann (MO): To be honest, I wanted to begin this interview by...
Singapore film shines at AHSB 2009
Some habits are practical and make for simple sense. There are others which it is simply a luxury to indulge in....
Interview with Joshua Lim, director of “The Olive Depression”
Mathias Ortmann (MO): To begin, my congratulations on your small but intense film “The Olive Depression"! Joshua Lim (JL): Thank you...
A post-Berlinale interview with Boo Junfeng
Mathias Ortmann (MO): You've recently been taking part in Berlin International Film Festival (aka: Berlinale). First off: How did you cope...
The Olive Depression – A Review by Mathias Ortmann
The Olive Depression is every bit your satire template in the mold of that memorable Zo Gang ridicule of Singaporean films....
The Torch: Invisible Children Review
Invisible Children, Brian Gothong Tan's first feature length film, just had its World Premiere at the Bangkok International Film Festival last...