Made In Singapore
straits times/ 20April2006/ Life

From a simple heart land tale to a brain bending puzzle, the four home made films debuting at the 19th Singapore International Film Festival runs the bamut. Four movies may not seem like many, but it is the first time so many home grown features are premiering at the fest.

No budget, quaint, arthouse and extravagant are words that describe these four home grown movies which are Singapore dreaming, mature offering 4:30, The art of filming and Fare love story. With the increasing talents of movie directing in Singapore, example, Jack Neo, there is a new possibility that Singapore film's could reach out to the world. Li Ang, being the first Asian movie director who won the Golden Globe awards has also proven the possibilities for Singapore's film to become as far reaching compared to Hollywood's film over time. If Singapore's film were to become well known, it would benefit the country ecnomically and secondly, movie, theatre studies would be a majoring play in Singapore.Unless Singaporeans dare to dream for the impossible, such dreams would have the tendency to become a reality. From here, Singapore would be made known to the world and people would no longer just term us as the''little red dot'' or the ''little china''.