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ROVING SHOWCASE
We're proud to bring you our most exciting event yet! There's a reason why it's the campaign finale highlight and here's why - we're roving all along Scotts and Orchard Roads on the first Saturday of March to bring you our Call for Memories showcase!
For a whole month we've gone about interviewing at least two people every week for their fondest local film memory and how they feel about the cause. Come listen to 13 cherished recollections from the likes of members of the local film community, film memorabilia collectors, WWII survivors and more. Now watch the fruits of our labour on a nostalgic 11-inch television reminiscent of the nineties as we make stops outside five malls along Orchard Road to screen and share with anyone and everyone passing by! The on-site local film trivia quiz from the Video Projections will still be ongoing so do come down to win yourself your very own copy of Singapore Shorts Vol. 2!
SAVE OUR FILM ROVING SHOWCASE
Saturday 06/03/10
1pm - 5pm
Along Orchard Road
Route Schedule (estimated times): 1pm - Wheelock Place Do hang around the area if we're not there yet, don't worry you'll see/hear us coming from far away! Our hand-dandy apparatus:
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List of featured interviewees (appended alphabetically): Dr Adam Knee DR ADAM KNEE Professor Knee has been teaching in Singapore for 2 years now and has a special love for Southeast Asian film. He brushed up on his local film knowledge right before the interview and shares a broader perspective on the importance of saving national film. JACK NEO Arguably Singapore's most popular local filmmaker, Mr Neo's Money No Enough (1998) and I Not Stupid (2002) was mistakenly thought to be Singapore's oldest film by over 30% of 300 respondents in a survey we did last year. Here, he takes time from his very busy schedule to share and reminisce his roots. KAREN CHAN Our very own resident film Archivist remembers old Malay classics she watched with her parents which she now passes on to her children. Catch a more candid side of her here as she shares her wealth of local film knowledge. BABA LEE KIP LEE Baba Lee and his friends, Mr Narayanan and Baba Gwee, were featured in mid-2008 in an article entitled 'Before the Multiplex' by The New Paper. From there, we tracked all three WWII survivors down and asked them to share their special memories of Singapore film. Baba Lee is also known for being celebrity Dick Lee's father! NARAYANAN SAVITHA Part of the WWII survivors trio with Baba Lee and Baba Gwee, Mr Narayanan has had a passion for old films that remind him of his boyhood and can give you a whole history lesson on old Singapore film. Watch him warmly recall those good old days from the 40s on! OLIVER STONE Mr Stone needs no introduction - this world-famous film director who is also an avid film preservationist speaks to us in Singapore about the need to save our film and just why we have to do it. BABA PETER WEE Baba Wee has a veritable museum in his shophouse of Katong Antique Gallery. All things Peranakan can be found there but something special folks might not know is that Baba Wee is the grandson of Mr Tan Cheng Kee, motion picture industry pioneer, who built the old Alhambra and Marlborough Theatres! RANDY ANG This familiar friendly face in the local film industry imparts his own favourite local film memory and even lent us a tripod to shoot this interview! STEFAN SHIH If you need to find anything about local film, you can always head down to Mr Shih's blog, A Nutshell Review. There, he's been reviewing a different film nearly every day and almost never misses local films at the box office. With so many titles under his belt, he shares his appreciation of films made in Singapore and why they just cannot compare with Hollywood ones. TAN BEE THIAM The head of the Archive shares personally what sparked his passion for Singapore films and the burning reason behind the Archive's work. BABA WILLIAM GWEE Baba Gwee is part of the trio of WWII survivors along with friends, Baba Lee and Mr Narayanan. He has been keeping old film flyers, programmes and even a diary of what films he caught when he was young and exactly how he would rate them! Watch him reminisce on the changing times and how spellbinding the Malay horror films were when he was just a boy. WILLY WHY Mr Why is a really colourful character! Pegged as both the youngest and oldest local cameraman on the island, he started out at the tender age of 19 with the Cathay-Keris Film studios and has had a hand in shooting many films and videos for them and the former Broadcasting Division of the Ministry of Culture, from which he retired in his 60s! WONG HAN MIN You might have heard of Mr Wong's collection which travelled all the way to the Venice Biennale last year. Back home in Singapore, Mr Wong has painstakingly been collecting anything he can get his hands on that's related to local film and his own home is a vault of every sort of film-related material that's 2D. He shares his very special collection with us here and even allowed us to scan a few archived images for the Singapore Lost Film Wiki! |
