Posted on October 20, 2006 by nuSTUDIOS under Events, Screenings | Post a comment
Date: 27 Oct 2006, Fri
Time: 7 pm
Venue: Suite Two, University Cultural Centre (Level 1)
Free Admission!
Take a voyeuristic, bottom-up view of the world in Slipper Story (2005)… Follow an entertainer-wannabe as she revives her long lost dream and dances to Rosemary Clooney’s Mambo Italiano in a kopitiam in Friday Morning (2005)… Uncover the alienating pain of proximity in Hedgehog’s Complex (2005)… And then ask yourself, as Goldfish (2005) does:
Can you ever get used to what it means to lose someone?
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Take a step back and discover what really goes on behind closed doors…
Fetish 2006 invites you on a journey to explore the nature of the hidden desires of people, and the fascination with the process of generating a need for something, or someone.
Come join us at this exclusive showcase of this special selection of our films!
Synopsis of Films:
Goldfish
Lai Weijie, 2005
Singapore , an unspecified time. John, an introverted young man, wakes up the day after his breakup with his girlfriend May. He struggles with a sense of detachment, grappling with this new reality he faces. His battle to come to terms with his loss leads him to recall the times shared with May, and appreciate their newfound significance.
Slipper Story
Low Beng Kheng, 2005
Just how attached are we to our material possessions? How much of our lives are spent worrying over material things and how much is spent living in the present? Follow one fellow hostel tenant through a day in his life, his encounters with his fellow friends and family. A day in the life of a student living in Singapore, from a different perspective.
Friday Morning
Lim Jiaxuan Gillian, 2005
An entertainer-wannabe is possessed by her conscience-spirit one comfy, quiet Friday morning. She revives her long lost dream and dances to Rosemary Clooney’s Mambo Italiano in a kopitiam.
Do what you like. Be what you dream. Have fun. It’s a Friday morning.
Hedgehog’s Complex
Song Yizhuang, 2005
A darkly comical look at the lives of a group of neighbours in a university dormitory. The relationship between the four residents of Block 8 is polite, and despite being proximally close is somewhat superficial – yet highly functional. Meanwhile, behind those doors which shut each other out, each resident faces a turning point in their relationship with someone else who is emotionally close to them – with painful results.
Posted on October 2, 2006 by nuSTUDIOS under Events, Others | Post a comment
Date: 20 Oct 2006, Fri (Tentative)
Calling out for scripts or ideas that can be made into a short/feature film! So aspiring film-makers take note!
We’re now looking for scripts to be produced into nuSTUDIOS short/feature film! Also, if you have that burning idea but don’t know how to start (or just too lazy to start writing), you can work with any writers out there who are interested in just writing for others! Send in your scripts or ideas NOW!!!
You may get a chance to further your script or ideas into full working scripts to be ready for the holiday productions (May to Aug or Dec) with the help from our resident tutor, Mr. Lee Thean Jean, who’s an accomplished writer and director in the local TV industry. (Credits include Chase, The Singapore Shorts Stories, Alter Asians, and The Secret Lives of Sorry Stars. His company is called Film Formations.)
Script Market
The script market will be held tentatively on the 20 Oct 2006 (details will be finalised at a later date).
We will have a script market session to ultimately select which submitted scripts will be made into a short film. Don’t worry if you didn’t make the cut, the script can be further developed and considered for future productions!
Basically, the process will be as follows:
- You write your script / treatment
- You submit your script to us
- We will look through all the submitted scripts and we will choose which are ultimately suitable (generally most will make the cut)
- Writers for selected script will come down on script market day to pitch the script to us
- We will consider and choose the final scripts for production (we looking at 2-3 scripts). The other scripts may be considered for further productions. So, in the meantime, it can be further developed.
Once the scripts are finalised, we will apply the script for a SFC film grant (see http://www.sfc.org.sg/funding/funding_03.shtm). Crews will be called from nuSTUDIOS. Production will then be held in the holidays.
Submission of Scripts
If you have a script/treatment ready or is working on your script now, please submit your scripts to us by the 13 Oct 2006 (a week before script market).
Getting other writers
If you have ideas but don’t know how to start and would love to work with others on that idea. Please use the nu-mail to ask around for writers. If not, you can always approach us, and we can help you ask around for any writer to work with you. Don’t worry! Or if you form groups within nuSTUDIOS and to try to make that short film together! Options are limitless! It’s up to you to make the first move!
SEND YOUR SCRIPTS IN NOW!!!
Derek Tan
VP (Productions), nuSTUDIOS
derek@nu-studios.com
