Being at the Berlin Film Festival helps me appreciate the difference that a film-literate audience can make to the film making experience Here is a city where people have attended the festival year after year and over time they have developed the ability to articulate their analyses and insights about film. Even films from little known places [...]
February 10, 2008
I am attending the Berlin Film Festival 2008 as script consultant for the Singapore documentary, Invisible City. The Berlinale deserves its reputation as one of the top festivals in the world. Every section at the festival is a film universe unto its own and has developed a distinct identity and developed a loyal audience [...]
February 7, 2008
I will be attending the Berlin Film Festival 2008 (7th — 17th February 2008) There are two big reasons why I am going. Invisible City, a film I worked on, is screening in the Forum section of the Berlinale. I will also take the opportunity to market and promote my own film about the Beijing Olympics, Boomtown [...]
January 31, 2008
Today, I received an email request from my friend, Singaporean film maker Tan Pin Pin: "Hi Siok, if its convenient, can you let Web 2.0 know to watch or look out for Invisible City in Berlin?" Those were her exact words.:) So hear ye, Web 2.0 folks out there, look out for this Singapore documentary [...]
February 10, 2008