Straits Times Life!

Thursday 28 April 2005

Save our Singapore films.

The Asian Film Archive (AFA), set up by local film-maker Tan Bee Thiam in January, has launched the Reel Emergency Project to preserve historically and culturally significant Singapore films.

The Singapore-based archive is calling for the submission of short and feature-length films, as well as footage, shot in Singapore or by Singaporean filmmakers since the 1930s. The submitted materials will then be stored online in a database open to the public.

In a press release yesterday, the AFA also announced that it will work together with the National Archives of Singapore to preserve local and Asian films.

For more details, go to www.asianilmarchive.org.