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What does Perspective Film Festival 2011 has to offer?
By InCinemas / 21 Oct 2011 (Friday)
Perspective Film Festival 2011 will kick off with its opening film THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS in less than a week's time! And dear InC-Fans, you wouldn't have done yourself justice if you haven't read about the films that will be screening during this annual festival!
InCinemas gets in touch with Grace, the head publicity of the Perspective Film Festival to stress its significance! Grace points out that the Perspective Film Festival 2011 presents a rare opportunity for Singaporeans to view
the six films that had sparked
controversy, and elicited bans and censorship in their home countries. For example, Caterpillar tells of a Japanese soldier who had lost
his four limbs and demands endlessly for sex and food from his faithful
wife!
Also, each of the films will only have ONE screening over the period from 27-30 October and you may not have another chance to view it again in theatres.
Click on the titles to find out more details, including its showtimes and ticketing!
"Films like those we're
bringing in deserves to be enjoyed with the full cinematic experience...
With surround sound, and clear visuals. They tell stories that are not
only brilliantly written, but wonderful visually as well. Would really
encourage your readers to come watch these films!" Grace noted.
Join Perspective Film Festival Facebook for more of its updates! So far, we have learnt that A Clockwork Orange left only with less than 10% seats availability. They're not available online anymore, but if you're interested, you can call the GV booking hotline at 1900 912 1234, or head down to ANY GV box office!
You may also be interested to win movie tickets to Perspective Film Festival 2011 at InCinemas! (Contest ends on 24 October 2011)
And here below, we are glad to have an exclusive interview with the festival director, Eternality Tan, to get a better understanding behind the Perspective Film Festival. Find out about some of the challenges the NTU undergraduates had face when working on the festival and also on the inspiration behind its poster!
Q: Could you introduce your Perspectives Film Festival Team to us? How many people are there on this project?
Eternality: There are 17 undergraduates working on this project, mentored by 2 Festival Advisers in Ms. Nikki Draper and Ms. Sam I-shan. (Both ladies on the right picture)
Cailin Choy and myself are the Festival Directors. (Picture on the left) We oversee five committees and facilitate them in planning and execuinge various committee tasks related to the project: Festival Management, Programming, Editorial, Publicity/Sponsorship, and Design.
Apart from 2 students from the Art, Design, and Media School, 1 student from the Nanyang Business School, and 1 student from the Arts, Humanities, and Social Science School, the rest are from the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (WKWSCI) as it is a course practicum conducted by WKWSCI. (About the committee)
Q: What are the highlights of the Perspectives Film Festival 2011? How does this year’s differ from the previous?
Eternality: Perspectives 2011 is going bigger and ambitious this year. We have two venues (GV Vivocity & Alliance Francaise), including a screening of A Clockwork Orange at the biggest theater in Singapore, GV Max.
It is also the first time we are screening some of our classic films such as The Battle of Algiers and A Clockwork Orange in a modern 2K Digital format. Other films will be screened in traditional 35mm and also in Digital Betacam.
It is also the first time we are screening 6 films as compared to 4 or 5 films in previous years.
We are proud to premiere two films A Clockwork Orange (on its 40th anniversary since its ban in 1971) and Caterpillar (a Japanese film that recently won Best Actress in the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival).
Q: Is there a target audience? Who do you think should watch the movies?
Eternality: Because half of our selection have restricted ratings, younger viewers might not have the chance to watch these films. But we are not worried as most of our target audience are young adults whom are film enthusiasts or working professionals interested in the arts. Having said that, we are also targeting the older demographic because some of our films were released decades ago, and these people may have some memory about the controversy and censorship issues surrounding these films and would like the chance to see them.
Q: Tell us about working on this Perspectives Film Festival. Briefly share with us some of the things you have to handle?
Eternality: There are many things to handle, which is why each committee has a head to oversee more specific sub-committee tasks. The first few weeks we had to come out with a programming theme and a selection of films. Then we had to liaise with distributors to procure the film prints, while others had to start writing material for the programme booklets, design the website and booklet, get sponsorship from various relevant organizations, strategize a publicity plan, liaising with venue and ticket vendors, and manage the festival budget.
Q: Was there any disagreement in the team? How did try to resolve the differences?
Eternality: There were no major disagreements, though we did have active debate over issues like finalizing the selection of films, what kind of design we want for our collateral, and how we wanted to have an outdoor screening initially. We try to resolve differences by seeing the practicality of the current solution against other alternatives, and try to come to an agreement as to which solution would be most cost-effective and most manageable in the short and long-term.
Q: How would you rate your team in terms of curating this event?
Eternality: The team this year is fantastic. Everyone has put in a lot of valued effort not only within their committees, but also working with other committees to get things done. Although we hold an official meeting once a week, much of the work is done outside of class where we work with external vendors to secure contracts and sponsorship, or write materials for our collaterals. What we have done thus far is the product of the perseverance and commitment of every person in the team.
Q: Share with us the toughest moment working on this project and how you manage to overcome the problem.
Eternality: I can't judge which moment is the toughest, but there have been tough moments in which key decisions have to be made such as whether we wish to continue to pursue something (e.g. sponsorship, bringing directors down), or if we would want to embark on a new task given that time is short (e.g. festival trailer, exhibitions).
Q: Tell us a little about inspiration behind the design of the Perspectives Film Festival 2011 poster.
Eternality: One of the phrases that has guided us since the start is "Red Tape". We actually wanted to name the theme of our festival as Red Tape but realized it sounded too bureaucratic and overly political, and not all of our film selections are in that vein. But we loved the idea of Red Tape that we tried hard to incorporate it into our poster and design. Thus, we have an artificial red tape running over the eyes of a person (that person is one of us!), giving the impression that society is blocked from seeing various films because of its controversial content that ironically is not far from the truth.
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Perspectives Film Festival 2011 will run from 27-30 October at GV VivoCity and Alliance Francaise. Visit their website for more information on the films, venues, screening times and ticketing.
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