The making of Becoming Royston: Chapter 1/5 – We caught the BUG
Filmmaking is rather addictive. There's something about the medium that makes you want to put in ridiculous hours and burn lots...
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First Take: ‘The Year of Male Thinking’
The Substation Moving Images' Programme Manager Kristin Saw looks back at First Take 2006.Sure, they were mostly by male directors, but...
Opinion: Of the decision to keep old films cool
Regardless of how tough a reel of film seems when you tug on the ends, film itself is one of those...
The Making of Becoming Royston: Preface – The Fly by Night Filmmakers
Suppose you are the average twentysomething Singaporean guy. You follow a routine day in, day out. You wake up the same...
Interview: Margaret Chan, Actor and Writer of ‘Medium Rare’
Cine.SG rounded up its 2006 screening schedule in November with a screening of the 1992 feature film, Medium Rare. Tan Pin...
The Making of Becoming Royston: From Dream to Reality
From a casual conversation during a drive to dinner, to the surprise nominations for Asian Festival of 1st Films --- we...
Interview: Award-Winning Filmmaker Ellery Ngiam
Ellery Ngiam, 27, made his first film Crammed (image at left) in 2003 after winning $2,000 at a lottery. This short...
Videos take flight
Imagine all the work that goes into making a film: conceptualisation, writing, planning, shooting, and editing. (That's a very concise version...
Question Mark: In Retrospect
Making videos using a videophone is not something new or unbelievably exciting. At some point, we've all whipped out our pocket-sized...
10 Things We Learnt From Making ‘Singapore Standard Time’
The producer of Singapore Standard Time gives us a snapshot of her team's experience while making the film for their final...
Interview: Phillip Lim (pt. 2)
Read part 1 of the interview here. Die-hard romantic, relentless director I'm the kind of person who enjoys chick flicks but...
Interview: Phillip Lim (pt. 1)
The year was 1996. The book The Teenage Textbook had been on Singapore bookshelves for almost ten years. There had been...