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Films by Singaporean filmmakers

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Be Very Quiet

Mona Nahm/25:00/Drama/Thailand・USA/2004
 “Be Very Quiet” is the story of Thana , a young man who witnessed the rape and murder of his prostitute mother when he was a child.
Mona Nahm / Nahm was born in Bangkok , Thailand in 1973. Later she immigrated to the United States with her family, but life was tough.  Nahm had to quit high school to take care of her sick mother and younger sister.  Fate played a roll when a major television producer came to the restaurant she was working in and offered her a job in the film industry back in Thailand . After 6 years, at the age of 26, Nahm decided to return to the United States . She enrolled in school to study filmmaking to expand her career.

Singapore Short Shorts

The Bus

KC Teo/14:34/Drama/Singapore/2005
 Unjustly reprimanded by his boss about corporate policies and service, a bus inspector embarks on a mission to get one passenger off an overcrowded bus.
KC Teo / KC Teo headed the documentary department of Yarra Films Singapore in 1997 and is a fully established commercial director.  His work has won awards at the Singapore Creative Circle Awards, the New York Clio Awards and were finalists at the prestigious London Design and Art Direction and Cannes Lion Awards.  “The Bus” is his first narrative short film.

Village Football

Sainath Choudhury/1:25/ Fiction//India/2004
This film is a humorous take on a young Indian village boy's obsession for football and how he manages to fulfill the passion.
Sainath Choudhury / Sainath spent his initial years in advertising working with creative hot shops in India and the Middle East , finally giving it all up for film.His entry, “Village Football” made it to the World Cup FIFA 2006 Official Artistic & Cultural Program.  It was also selected to open the Locarno International Film Festival.  He was also handpicked by Walter Salles (“Motorcycle Diaries”) to shoot a short film.

Save My Earth

Bejay Kim/15:00/Drama/Korea/2005
After taking a murder case, a detective, Jinman Kim, tries to call on a high school girl.
Bejay Kim / Bejay was born in Korea in 1972.  He graduated from the Korean National University of Arts in 2005 where he received his MFA.  He started to make short films in 2001.  “Save My Earth” is his fourth film.

Fingerprint

Gyuoak Cho/21:20/Fiction/Korea/2004
Eighteen-year-old Suin lives and works alone in a copy shop. One day, a woman comes to photocopy a bill of complaint with snapshots showing her bruises from physical battery.
Gyuoak Cho / Born in 1973, he received his Bachelor's degree in Mass Communications at Sogang University . He then earned his MFA in  directing from the department of filmmaking at the Korea National University of Arts.  Cho started filmmaking in 1997, and since 2000 has written and directed three screenplays.  “Fingerprint” screened at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival competition and the Pusan International Film Festival in 2004.  That same year, it won the Gran Prix at the Daegu Independent Short Film Festival in Korea.

From Mom

Anchalee Thaingamsin/13:08/Drama/Thailand/2005
 A story about a mother and her daughter. The mother wants to be respected by her daughter but she never says anything. She makes her child accept her with non-verbal method.

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