
Singapore filmmaker Kelvin Tong and US based producer Sahani Chew give your screen with the actual status of Singapore Singapore-as Cannes of Asia and the film industry
By more than a week in June, big starring Tom Hanks, Zhang Ziyi, Shah Mirza Khan and Lee Byung-hun, filmmakers, directors, producers and trade in the film professionals will meet for the opening screen Singapore (June 5-11).
This event of entertainment from film, see premieres of Hollywood movies, Europeans and higher Asian together with a chain of actors and actresses loans the event some star trek.
Tom Hanks will be his last film “larry crowne”, starring Julia Roberts and Lee Byung-hun. Japanese actress Aya Omasa is scheduled to appear for his new film “paradise kiss”. Hong Kong actor Nick Cheung and director Wong Jing to the side will be the opening night of his new comedy “Treasure Inn”. And Singapore Sahani chew producer unconventional comedy of American director Dennis Lee “Jesus Christ by Henry” will launch.
Other events lined his brief Asian Film Awards, film, previews, forums and debates by the main actors in the international and local film industry, including the Singapore filmmaker Kelvin Tong, who is best known for his commercial productions “eating air (1999)”, The Maid “(2005) and” men in white “(2007).”
But, how is the realistic increase in the event in the local film industry? Elaine Ee talk about Kelvin Tong and Sahani Chew for its decision.
CNNGo do: how the local film industry changed in the last few years?
Kelvin Tong: it has changed by leaps and bounds. When I got my first film in 1999, Singapore films were still a novelty, and the film industry had an average of one film per year. A bit is more than a decade later, Singapore an average of four to six films per year.
Cnngo do: what should be changed so that the local film industry grow?
Language: films we can with the audience outside our shores have resound. Only then will be Singapore movie really take flight.
Sahani Chew: I think that incentives must be provided by Singapore prosecutors to pull projects are filmed here local filmmakers give more opportunities to participate in projects at international level.
Singapore facilities and sound stages can build, but the producers still want to know what you can get to shoot on location incentives.
CNNGo: to what extent you think important that international events such as screen Singapore help to prop up the local movie industry?
Language: major foreign players can come into contact with Singapore films. When people talk, it creates opportunities. Who knows, maybe Tom Hanks Singapore as well as when your visit here decided to make a movie?
Cnngo do: seems authentic and international credibility arts events, in Singapore own environment of art is still subject to censorship?
Language: no society is free from censorship. And in any case, the interaction between the doctor and censors events provides a forum and an opportunity for discussion. The challenge of old ideas and it will press envelopes. It is absolutely necessary and inevitable.
Chew: I think art is right, for the most part, freedom of expression, which the doctor censor why is a bit of a contradiction.
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