Participants share their thoughts with SINdie about the recent 13 Little Pictures Film Lab.

Ashish Ravinran (Singapore)
Colin Tan (Singapore)
Echo He Yingshu (China)
Faraz Hussain (India)
Gary Yong (Malaysia)
Joenathann Alandy (Philippines)
Juan Manuel Alcazaren (Philippines)
Kuba Morawski (Poland)
Maenam Chagasik (Thailand)
Ng Yiqin (Singapore)
Shyan Tan (Singapore)
Sorayos Prapapan (Thailand)
Tan Jingliang (Singapore)
Tay Hong Cheng (Singapore)
Vivien Koh (Singapore)

VANISHING AIR, a film project from the 13 Little Pictures Film Lab screens at the 23rd CCP Independent Film and Video. Congrats Joe, Jingliang, Colin, Yiqin & Yossy!

Download Issue 7 of One Imperative—Who Gives a Shit About Art is out; just for you. Featuring Wesley Leon Aroozoo’s TWO FINGERS IMITATING LEGS WALKING.

KISSING FACES by Wesley Leon Aroozoo at Nepal Cine-Symposium on 21st November.

Review of Chris Yeo’s WAKING MONKEY & Wesley Leon Aroozoo’s DICK MARLOW at Everyone’s Gotta Start Somewhere – Singapore International Film Festival by Vicki Yang.

Meanwhile, the Philanthropic Museum features Sherman Ong and don’t forget to say a big hello to his elephant BULAN as part of the Elephant Parade.

And for the month of October catch Liao Jiekai’s AS WINTER ESCAPES ME on the 13 Little Pictures Youtube Channel.

The Singapore International Film Festival

13 Little Pictures will world premiere two new feature-length films at the 24th Singapore International Film Festival. Tickets are  available on SISTIC and selling fast.

Weijie & Elizabeth Wijaya’s debut feature I HAVE LOVED @ Lido 5/7pm/18 Sep. Nominated for ‘Best Cinematography’ in the Asian Feature Film Competition. SOLD OUT.

Daniel Hui’s debut feature ECLIPSES @ Lido 2/6.30pm/24 Sep. SOLD OUT.

In the Special Segment at SIFF - Everyone’s Gotta Start Somewhere, you can catch our early works. Liao Jiekai’s PARADISE, Chris Yeo’s WAKING MONKEY & COTTON ‘N’ CANDY, Sherman Ong’s STATE OF THINGS & Wesley Leon Aroozoo’s DICK MARLOW @ Sinema/ 9pm/16 Sep.

Independent filmmaking is the art of embracing limitations, working with available resources and making much with what one has. What are creative and financial responsibilities of filmmakers? How do one break free from the budget abyss? A panel of filmmakers from 13 Little Pictures will share their process and perspectives on THE VALUE OF INDEPENDENT FILMMAKING @ The POD, Level 16, National Library/7pm/20 Sep. Pre-register for this event by emailing your full name, age, and contact number to writetous@siff.sg with ’13LP Talk’ as the subject heading.

Last but not least, we will be working with 15 other filmmakers from Singapore and the region in the 13 Little Pictures FILM LAB from the 19-25 Sep 2011. If you are keen to watch our work in progress on 25 Sep at the Sinema, contact us.

Told on Tote has been specially commissioned to design a customized tote bag for a 5-day film lab organized by 13 Little Pictures as part of the Singapore International Film Festival. Exclusively designed for the participants and guests of the 13 Little Pictures Film Lab.

Catch a glimpse @ http://www.toldontote.sg

The Film Lab participants are:

Ashish Ravinran (Singapore)
Colin Tan (Singapore)
Echol He Yingshu (China)
Faraz Hussain (India)
Gary Yong (Malaysia)
Joenathann Alandy (Philippines)
Juan Manuel Alcazaren (Philippines)
Kuba Morawski (Poland)
Maenam Chagasik (Thailand)
Ng Yiqin (Singapore)
Shyan Tan (Singapore)
Sorayos Prapapan (Thailand)
Tan Jingliang (Singapore)
Tay Hong Cheng (Singapore)
Vivien Koh (Singapore)

In September, 13 Little Pictures Presents Two Fingers Imitating Legs Walking by Wesley Leon Aroozoo exclusively on our youtube channel:

At the SMU Film Fest 2011, Sherman Ong’s TICKETS & XIAO JING followed by a dialogue session with Sherman Ong @ Glassroom Cafe, SMU/ 7.30pm/ 7th September. Later in the month, Bee Thiam will be at SMU to give a Lunchtime Talk on the 28th September.

Yeo Siew Hua programmed a series of past and present works of filmmakers from 13 Little Pictures for the Studio Thirteen Open House. This includes a new work he directed, in collaboration with Poskod and Leslie Low from The Observatory @ Goodman Arts Centre, Multi-Purpose Hall/10am-6pm/11th September 2011

On the same eventful day of 11 September, Daniel Hui ‘s WANDERLUST will also screen at the Asian Berlin Hot Shots!

Liao Jiekai’s RED DRAGONFLIES will screen again this month at the Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival (26th-30th September) and the Asian Cultural Cinema Symposium on @ Lasalle College of the Arts/10am/30th September.

The 13 Little Pictures Film Lab which will take place from 19-23 September 2011, is open for application.

A platform for fellow filmmakers to meet and collaborate with one another, the film lab is intended for a diverse group of aspiring directors, producers, cinematographers, scriptwriters, art directors, editors, sound engineers, music composers and actors.

20 participants will be selected to work with 13 Little Pictures filmmakers Daniel Hui, Elizabeth Wijaya, Lai Weijie, Lei Yuan Bin, Liao Jiekai, Sherman Ong, Tan Bee Thiam, Wesley Leon Aroozoo and Yeo Siew Hua.

The film lab will consist of hands-on learning workshops, film production exercises, screenings and small group sharing in the creative process of film-making. Work in progress will be presented at the Singapore International Film Festival.

The 5-day intensive film lab starts from 1.30 to 7.30pm everyday at the The Puttnam School of Film, LASALLE College of The Arts. Participants must be able to commit to the full duration of the lab.

Participation in the film lab is free of charge. Camera equipment and editing facilities will also be provided. In addition, each participant will be given a specially designed tote bag by Told on Tote.

Application materials:
a)    application form (word doc and pdf)
b)    one-page motivation letter
c)    one-page resume
d)    creative portfolio

Please email items (a), (b) and (c) to info@studiothirteen.org and send (d) to the address below.

Studio Thirteen
90 Goodman Road
Block B, #03-10
Goodman Arts Centre
Singapore 439053

Your submission is only completed when all application materials reach us.

The deadline for application is 6th September 2011. Selection results will be announced on 9th September 2011.

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13 Little Pictures is back in August with a whole line-up of screenings, DVD’s and talks!

Cross borders with 13 Little Pictures big brother, Sherman Ong’s works from the 6th-28th of August at ARTSPACE@ Helutrans, Singapore. Then gear up as 13 Little Pictures returns this year to the 8th Singapore Short Cuts with new films from Short Cuts alumni Sherman Ong and Daniel Hui on the 7th and 14th of August: I Want to Remember, Rumah Sendiri and Sayang.

Engage with Tan Bee Thiam as he explores the history of Singapore film creation in the past 20 years in ‘Singapore Cinema & Its Audience (1991-2011)’ as part of ‘Our Love Stories, Our Singapore’ programme presented by the Esplanade on the 6th of August. In collaboration with 13 Little Pictures, Cathay Asia Films Pte Ltd and Lighthouse Pictures comes the much anticipated Army Daze:The Movie (15th Anniversary DVD) available in stores now.

Find out what goes on in the mind of 13 Little Pictures big brother, Sherman Ong with an exclusive interview on I-S magazine. Sherman Ong’s works will also be at the Noorderlicht Photofestival 2011 in Netherlands. If you’re in Hong Kong, 13 Little Picture’s NKOTB, Wesley Leon Aroozoo’s Peep will be at 7th InDPanda Film Festival on the 18th of August at Broadway Cinematheque.

The Arts House and 13 Little Pictures will be presenting Liao Jiekai’s Red Dragonflies and Lei Yuan Bin’s White Days in a special ‘Red + White’ Selection together with 2 short films, Sherman Ong’s State Of Things and Lai Weijie’s Space Of City Trees to coincide with the Nation’s Birthday. Screening runs from 13th-27th of August.

For the month of August, Lai Weijie steps up onto the 13 Little Pictures Official Youtube Channel with the cold and gripping Blue Date. Catch it exclusively now!

September is going to be a big month for 13 Little Pictures with workshops, DVD releases and more. See you in September!

Some updates in July!

Lots brewing in the works for the coming months at 13 Little Pictures. For the month of July catch Sherman Ong’s Tickets at the upcoming Sinema Show-Off National Day Special. Meanwhile as part of our monthly ritual of a film from a 13 Little Pictures artist per month, Daniel Hui’s Wanderlust premieres on the official 13 Little Pictures Youtube channel for the month of July. Up next is Lai Weijie in August!

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Exodus by Sherman Ong will also screen at Photo Ireland 2012 under the theme ‘Migrations.Diaspora and Cultural Diversity’. Do also check out Asymptote Global Literature where Sherman Ong is a contributing artist. Sherman Ong will also be participating in Noorderlicht Photo Festival 2011: Metropolis – City Life in the Urban Age.

Stay tuned in the coming months for some big announcements from 13 Little Pictures!

Some updates in June!

White Days by Lei Yuan Bin screened in competition at the 9th Asian Film Festival in Rome on 11 June 2011. Other titles in competition include Locarno Golden Leopard Winner, Winter Vacation by Li Hongqi and Golden Horse winner The Fourth Portrait by Chung Mong-hong.

Apart from world premiering his latest dance short film, I Want to Remember, Sherman Ong’s Memories of a Burning Tree screened at the Kandy International Film Festival in Sri Lanka on 23 June. The screening venue seemed to be at a pretty cool place called the outdoor amphitheatre at the University of Peradeniya (see below).

Catch the final encore screening of Red Dragonflies on 20 May, Friday evening! A 13 Little Pictures production on friendship, passing youth and Singapore’s disappearing history. If you have still not seen the movie, please come see it on the big screen before it ends its theatrical run.

Final Encore Screening of RED DRAGONFLIES
96 min | English, Mandarin | Rated PG | English and Chinese subtitles
Date and time: 20 May 2011, Friday, 7.05pm
Venue: Filmgarde Cineplex, Iluma (Bugis)
Price: $8
Book now to avoid queue: http://goo.gl/2Ia2U
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBGzwQxISls

“…possibly the most pensive and promising local feature filmmaking debut since Boo Junfeng’s Sandcastle…Questing, mysterious, at once hopeful and wistful, it has a delicacy as if conjured from wisps of a dream.” Whang Yee Ling, 8 Days

“Red Dragonflies, so unostentatious in its beauty, exerts a hold on you that is impossible to break, only if you give it a chance to do so.” Raymond Tan, SINdie and F*** http://sindieonly.blogspot.com/2011/04/review-red-dragonflies.html

What does it mean to declare or even whisper: I have loved? In Siem Reap, a young woman, haunted by loss, mourning, melancholia and the imperfections of memory, dances with two men—one of whom she is married to, while the other is engaged to be married. Co-directed by first-time filmmakers, Elizabeth Wijaya and Lai Weijie, the film stars Glen Goei (director of The Blue Mansion) and is edited by Azharr Rudin (editor of The Last Communist).

Liz and Weijie: “I Have Loved” is an intimate exploration of human consciousness, time and ways of remembering. After the death of her husband, Marie is haunted by an eclipsed memory—she cannot remember a key traumatic event as it happened. Trapped in a Freudian cycle of mourning and repetition, she returns to Siem Reap to remember—so that she may forget… read more here.