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 [...]
January 22, 2008
I have never given an interview about a film on a business show before. Well, there is always a first time. The China Business Show is a weekly show on WSR Radio that sheds cross-cultural insight on doing business in China. I am impressed by the range of issues that the show covers, from [...]
January 15, 2008
No matter how good my Mandarin is, I know that the Beijing-er can always tell that I am an outsider (外地人）from my accent. I spent the best part of 2007, living out of a suitcase in Beijing, working on a documentary about the Beijing Olympics. For someone from a small country like Singapore, Beijing is a sprawling [...]
February 10, 2008