Interview: Bervyn Chua, animator and director of National Youth Film Awards Winner, ‘The Last Stop’
Written by Tan Mei Qi Imagine your usual agonisingly slow commute on the MRT, but on steroids. A business-as-usual journey becomes...
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Communal Projections for Home Movie Networks in Singapore
Written by Sasha Han Poster of Home Movie Day Singapore at the entrance. Print design by Matthew Yang. Four projectors operate...
Interview: Olivia Griselda and Sarah Cheok, Directors of Sex-Positive Animated Short ‘She and Her Good Vibrations’
Despite strides in women's empowerment, our largely conservative society has still made it difficult for women to speak about sex positivity...
Interview: Mark Chua and Lam Li Shuen, Directors of ‘A Man Trembles’
Catching a new film by Mark Chua and Lam Li Shuen is always an exciting affair. The duo, collectively known as...
Interview: Thong Kay Wee, Programme Director of Singapore International Film Festival 2021
Another year brings another set of unprecedented challenges for the Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF). This year’s edition marks the festival’s...
Interview: Calleen Koh, Wind of Change on the Local Cinematic Landscape
To Kill the Birds and the Bees is an animated short film that made waves at this year’s National Youth Film...
Interview: Perry Lam, Genre Filmmaker and Director of Award-Winning Sci-Fi Short ‘After_Life’
We first learned about Singaporean filmmaker Perry Lam when he floored us with his sci-fi short After_Life, made through the STOREYS...
Programmer Viknesh Kobinathan on Asian Film Archive, the Retrospective series, and Abbas Kiarostami
The Asian Film Archive’s (AFA) Retrospective programme is a regular series that serves as a comprehensive filmic immersion into bygone eras,...
Interview: Actor Aric Hidir Amin, on His Leading Role in ‘Sacred Guardians: The Audio Drama’
For Aric Hidir Amin, acting boils down to one word: believability. For the last 15 years, the 36-year-old has been honing...
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at ‘Sacred Guardians: The Audio Drama’
The last time Sinema.SG spoke with tokuAsia, the team behind the Sacred Guardian Singa project, they were on the verge of...
Filmmakers Wang Ziyi and Noppatad Luangvaranan on Their Award-Winning Works at the SMHFF Short Film Youth Competition 2021
Now in its third year, the Singapore Mental Health Film Festival (SMHFF) continues its goal in advocating constructive conversations on mental...
The Show Must Go On! The Projector Overcomes Pandemic Hurdles to Turn Abandoned ‘Siam Diu’ Into Pop-Up Cinema
Nestled between modern shopping malls in Clarke Quay sits a strange warehouse-like building with pitched roofs. A trip on its bumpy...