FREE – art films screening and meet the directors, grab your tickets now!

my friends’ films whom have traveled round the world on their film festivals have return for free screening and a rare chance for you to question and discuss about their films. so quickly register and grab your tickets here:

https://www.alumnet.nus.edu.sg/InnerPage.aspx?menuid=308

oh yes, i am part of production team of “Flood” too! as the film color supervisor and still photographer. if you love the stills and want to put them on your walls, please feel free to give me a ring.

http://www.tanhaihan.com/sher_still.html

Flooding in the Time of Drought (Banjir Kemarau) by Sherman Ong

http://floodinginthetimeofdrought.blogspot.com/

White Days by Looi Wan Ping
http://13littlepictures.wordpress.com/new-titles/white-days/

Screening & panel discussion, NUS Alumni Programme:
Date: Saturday, 13 March 2010
Time: From 2.00pm-7pm
Venue: Shaw Foundation Alumni House Auditorium, National University Singapore

2pm – Screening of Drought
4pm – Screening of Flood

5.45pm – Panel Discussion with filmmakers

7.00pm – Light bites

7.30pm – Screening of White Days

你又不是導演。| you are not the director.

近年來,很慶幸朋友們邀我去拍他們的電影劇照。因此也結交了一些志同道和的朋友。最近還很榮幸能為一位朋友拍他的記錄片。
事情就發生在拍攝的最後一天:是個無聲的記錄片,我們在拍攝女主角搬到新家的情景。看年輕朋友一再嘆氣,好心疼啊!
就隨口道:“為什麼一直嘆氣,嘆氣leh…”
換來的是:”關你什麼事?“ ”你又不是導演。“

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當場見血!完全不能拍下去。心如水做。
我覺的,死了,心情沒了,這是靠心拍的記錄呀!
沒水準。

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in the recent years i was very honor to be invited to my director friends’ film set to document their film still based on my interpretation of their film, they will send me their scrip and writings and we see this as a collaboration in representing the feel and idea of the their film.

i was asked to do a “directed” sorta documentary film last month and during the last day of part one’s shoot, the following happened and it hunts me quite a bit.
we were documenting a friend who is also the main character1. its quite saddening to see a friend who keep sighing.
so i said: ” why keep sighing leh? “
in return: ” whats the matter? ” ” you are not the director. “

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bull’s eye! right on the heart. completely disabled for the moment.
how unprofessional.

footnote
1. i don’t refer her as “actress” as this is a documentary film, its real.

Michelle & Zhixian’s Christmas wedding!

i got to know Michelle, Zhixian and gang during Phyllis & Eric’s wedding (http://yesterdaywasgreat.wordpress.com/?s=phyllis) , ever since then we have been meeting up in exotic places like botanic garden, their JC (where they met) and my cafe to discuss about their Christmas wedding party. i have personally witnessed her sisters’ gang becoming really professional in their “job”, no panic, no “right” answers. we were also amazed that how Michelle’s dad and my uncle look so similar too. ha! (http://www.tanhaihan.com/p_berthui.html) heres, their Christmas wedding, enjoy~

this is a “teochew niang” people’s ritual practice; in the old days, when the bride was married to the groom’s family, they seldom visit their home anymore, thus this actually quite an important ritual which the bride will have a proper “last breakfast” with her family. i remembered while documenting my cousins’ weddings, my aunts would always wash their face with tears during the ritual. :) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teochew_dialect)

awwwwww…… i love this moment.

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