Singapore films get visible at film fests overseas
PEOPLE'S CHOICE: Singapore Dreaming won an audience award at a New York film festival.
THE Singapore film Invisible City will be very visible in October.
Director Tan Pin Pin's documentary on fading bits of Singapore's recent history will be premiering internationally at the Pusan International Film Festival, the biggest in Asia.
The hour-long film will screen in the Wide Angle documentary section.
The Korean festival awarded her a production grant of $8,000 for the film last year.
'So it is appropriate that Invisible City is premiering there too. It is a homecoming,' she said.
Another Singapore film is making a splash overseas.
Family drama Singapore Dreaming, directed by Colin Goh and Woo Yen Yen, won the Audience Award For Narrative Feature at the Asian American International Film Festival in New York last month.
Goh said he had not expected to win anything, with films like Golden Horse Award-winning Do Over from Taiwan and the Korean blockbuster King And The Clown also in the running.
Mr William Phuan, the Singaporean programme director of the festival, said it was the first time a Singapore film had won the prize.
'The New York audience is tough; it takes a lot to win them over. This proves that there is a market out there ready for strong, well-made Singapore films,'
he said.
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