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ShoutOUT! Mocha Chai Lab debuts new film scanning lab and 'Eating Air'...
Cinephiles, old-movie viewers, and old movie-viewers rejoice! Local post-production house, Mocha Chai Laboratories, helmed by award-winning sound designer Lim Ting Li and veteran filmmaker Chai Yee...
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STOP10: Reviving Ly Bun Yim's '12 Sisters'
50 years ago, Ly Bun Yim made a landmark film in Cambodian film history, with his lavish film 12 Sisters. One of the first local films to be shot on 35mm as well as incorporating innovative and bold...
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STOP10: 'Inside the Belly of a Dragon' by Ian A Wiggins
I thought that by this point the "white man finds himself in Southeast Asia" trope was completely exhausted, but this film proved me wrong. Here we get a huge serving of this trope with an added twist...
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STOP10: 'Hidden Photos' by Davide Grotta
Screened at the recent 8th Cambodia International Film Festival, the documentary Hidden Photos by Davide Grotta starts with an arresting proposition - that there are only two main reasons why people...
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STOP10: 'A Life Like This' by Isaiah Tour
Have a better life. Spoken in simple words from a limited vocabulary he could muster in a language foreign to him, Isaiah Tour’s father delivered these words with sincerity and a hopefulness that...
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STOP10: 'The Path' by Jeanne Labrune
The Path is the newest French film by writer-director Jeanne Labrune, best known for Sand and Blood, which screened in Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. It has...
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STOP10: 'First They Killed My Father' by Angelina Jolie
The film opens with the title: ‘A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers’ before showing us a beauteous green landscape with only the quiet and calming atmospheric sounds to hear. Suddenly, a montage mix of...
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STOP10: 'Loung Preah Sdech Korn' by Mao Ayuth
Something cropped up in the research on this film that was more interesting that fact that it was potentially the most expensive film ever made in the history of Cambodia cinema, almost US$1 million in...
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STOP10: 'Until They're Gone' by Christopher Lockett
Bill Morse is a volunteer who has been working for the landmine cause in Cambodia. He got out of cushy retirement in California to create Landmine Relief Fund in Siem Reap with his wife Jill Morse....
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STOP10: 'Surviving Bokator' by Mark Bochsler
Surviving Bokator is a heartfelt story about reclaiming cultural identity and building bridges between generations. Filmed over 5 years, it is told through the struggle of an elder genocide survivor...
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STOP10: Frights, witchery and fights in 'The Witch' by Huy Yaleng
Huy Yaleng is a Cambodian filmmaker who is known for his talent in acting and directing, often doing both in his films. He seems to have a special affinity with horror as he also acted and directed in...
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STOP10: 10 Cambodian flavours at the 8th Cambodian International Film Festival
Still from 'First They Killed My Father'Almost everything leads back to the Khmer Rouge in recent Cambodian cinema. Almost like a birthmark that never goes away, it remains an overriding narrative that...
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Lee Chong Wei: Behind the movie, the legend and Lee
All in the famiLEE (from left): Actor Mark Lee, Sports Star Lee Chong Wei and Tosh Chan (who plays Lee Chong Wei) Somewhere inside Malaysian movie Lee Chong Wei: Rise Of The Legend, Singaporean actor...
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BUS-STOP Apr 2018: Your Monthly SG Film Calendar
Festival frenzy heats up in Singapore in April offering audiences an esteemed selection of films with critical acclaim hitting the screens. Fans of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman will have a field day...
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Marrow Drama
The inevitable peril of films that depict or evoke the creative processes of other art forms almost always concerns the terms of engagement; too hung up on the methods and you have yourself a...
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ShoutOUT! The 6th Singapore Chinese Film Festival
The Singapore Film Society(SFS) and Centre for Chinese Studies, Singapore University of Social Sciences (CCS@SUSS) announced on Monday the 6th edition of the Singapore Chinese Film Festival (SCFF2018)...
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Review: 'DUKUN' (2018)
Malaysian director Dain Iskandar Said’s ('whose latest film was Interchange) first feature Dukun was birthed from the sensational real-life court case of a female witchdoctor, a ritual-gone-wrong and a...
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The Art of Death: An Interview with Anucha Boonyawatana
Making ripples quietly in its own terrain while its Western LGBT counterpart Call Me By Your Name is still bobbing along on the crest of its popularity is Malila: The Farewell Flower. To label it a gay...
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'So, We Meet Again': An Interview with Umie Aida on 'Dukun'
Looking regal in a hijab over a grey robe, actress Datin Seri Umie Aida knows how to make her presence felt. And not just with what she wears but how she carries herself. It's something about the...
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ShoutOUT! Submit your films to Singapore Shorts now
If your film is within 30 minutes and produced between 2017 and 2018, share your story at the inaugural edition of Singapore Shorts! #sgshorts18Singapore Shorts is an annual showcase celebrating the...
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