Weekly Picks: Singapore (12 – 18 November 2018)
about 67 months ago (11/12/2018)
Weekly Picks: Singapore (12 - 18 November 2018) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Weekly To Do November 12, 2018 667 , a Film Screening by Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre, 17 – 18 November 2018 Here’s your chance to catch 667 《回程667》 as the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre celebrates the latest win of local filmmaker, Jun Chong, whose debut short film Ke《客》 , was awarded the Best Asian Short at the 13th Sapporo International Short Film Festival. The 13-minute Hakka short which follows the desperate journey of an elderly woman to find her grandfather’s gravestone before the relocation of Singapore’s only Hakka cemetery was part of the omnibus, commissioned by the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre in 2017. Produced by award-winning filmmaker Royston Tan, and directed by Singapore’s next-generation local filmmakers – Kirsten Tan (Pop Aye), Eva Tang (The Songs We Sang), He Shuming (And The Wind Falls), Liao Jiekai (Red Dragonflies) and Jun Chong, 667 tells five stories that trace each filmmaker’s journey in re-discovering their cultural roots and how they make Singapore home.