Premiering at the 22nd Singapore International Film Festival, Hush Baby will be greeting audiences together with 8 other short films in the Singapore Short Film category. There are 3 screenings in April at The Arts House, Screening Room:
15 April (Wed) 9:15pm
18 April (Sat) 11:30am 25 April (Sat) 4:30pm
SIFF website is officially up! Besides being available online, the programme booklets should already be available at all Sistic outlets, Substation , and authorised screening venues. :D
22nd SIFF Singapore Short Film Competition Trailer
Freedom Project Seminar by Director Shuhei Morita and Producer Hideo Matsushita
Scriptwriting Workshop by Leonard Mah, screenwriter of Scrawl Studios
These 3 seminars are free for students of secondary schools, JCs and tertiary institutions. Please email animation@sfs.org.sg to register, stating names of each attendee and institution. More information here.
It’s that time of the year again and Animation Nation is back with an enticing selection of shorts, feature films and talks! I can’t keep this to myself: Koji Yamamura, Japanese independent director/animator of The Country Doctor and Atama Yama, is coming to Singapore in conjunction with the retrospective screening of his important works! Can’t wait to pick his brains.
24 Oct – 2 Nov. Keep a lookout here for full programme!
Programme:
3 Feet Apart by Jason Lai
Crocodile Journals by Yeo Lee Nah
SuperDONG by Pok Yue Weng
The Mole by Victric Thng
Overhead Clouds by Yeo Lee Nah
Subject by Davier Yoon
White by Tan Wei Keong
Elephant OK by Srinivas Bhakta
Bloom by Srinivas Bhakta
Nothing We’re Just Talking by Pamm
I swung by the ICA website and drooled at their events lineup so much that I wish I’m in London. Arrgh! You see!
White was presented the Best Animated Film by a Student last night at the Phoenix Awards. Feeling extremely humbled by an enormously talented audience, I was overwhelmed and ecstatic to walk on stage to receive the award. I didn’t have the chance to thank anyone, so here’s my little thank you:
Thank you, judges of the Phoenix Awards for selecting White. I would also like to thank Media Authority of Singapore for giving me a scholarship to study animation at the School of Art, Design and Media, and for your support and belief in my dream of becoming a great animation director. There are so much to be done for animated films in Singapore, and I would like to believe that there will be more and better things to come.
Mark your calendars! The first Siggraph conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques opens in Singapore this December. Join us as a student volunteer to support conference events and programme and make use of this opportunity to interact with industry professionals, artists and attendees. The juicy part is all SVs will receive a conference access badge allowing you access to most conferences and exhibition, after your shifts that is. Details and sign-up here.
Last year’s Siggraph at San Diego is crazy. So many things to see, so many people to meet and so little time. It’s like putting 100 Einsteins in a room and everyone is talking at the same time. And you are in it too. Imagine. There are geeky stuff like conferences on the fluid system utilised in Surf’s Up and CG pipeline of Happy Feet. And in ‘Emerging Technologies’ I found BYU-BYU. They have their own computer animation festival too. I think I looked like a child in a giant candy store last year.
This coming august, I will be back as a team leader! Whee! Must. remember. to. breath.
The break is here, yay! And closing with a bang is, erm, the opening reception tonight! The Best of ADM show has a reception this evening at 6pm at ADM NTU. Do come because there’s plenty to see!
