Still from last year's ciNE65 winner 'Priceless' directed by Kenny Tan
For all
budding filmmakers or wannabes, here is another way you can take a first step
towards making a film. ciNE65, the short film competition organisers are
putting together a mentorship programme where you can be guided by veterans and
experienced hands and minds from the film industry. This is the ciNE65
Mentorship Programme 2014 where you get to be mentored and also receive a
production budget to make a short film! The ciNE65 mentorship programme is open
to past participants of the ciNE65 short film competition and students studying
film and related courses in local institutions.
How
Does the Mentorship Programme Work?
• A maximum of four teams will be
shortlisted for the mentorship programme.
• Each team is to produce a 3-minute
film based on the theme from Total Defence 2014 (TD14), “Because You
Played A Part” . Teams can also use any of the stories featured at the
TD14 Experiential Showcase from 15 Feb to 23 Feb 14 at the National Museum of
Singapore as points of inspiration for their stories. You may visit (www.totaldefence.sg)
for more details.
• Teams will be selected based on
their proposed treatment and script.
• Selected teams will be paired with
an established filmmaker who will serve as a mentor and guide the team through
their production.
• Each team will be provided a
production budget of S$6,000 to make their film.
• Completed films stand a chance to be
featured on platforms in relation to the ciNE65 Short Film Competition.
And who
are the mentors? Here they are:
Fran
Borgia
Fran
Borgia studied filmmaking in London, Barcelona and Singapore. In 2004, he wrote
and directed his first short film, Asia. He shot his second short film, Para
Asia, in 2007. Fran co-directed and produced The King Lear Project,
a three-part theatre performance commissioned by Kunsten Festival des Arts in
Brussels and the Singapore Arts Festival in 2008, and in 2009, he wrote and
directed Film-Faust for Singapore's Esplanade Theatre Studios, a theatre
production inspired by Goethe's masterpiece. He was the Producer and Editor for
Here, Ho Tzu Nyen's first feature film that was presented at the 41st
Directors' Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival 2009, and for the medium length
film, Earth, presented at the 66th Venice Film Festival 2009 and the
39th International Film Festival Rotterdam 2010. He has also produced Masala
Mama, a short film presented at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival
2010 and Sandcastle, Boo Junfeng's first feature film that premiered at
the 49th Critics' Week, Cannes Film Festival 2010.
Kat
Goh
A
veteran of television production, Kat Goh is one of the few female filmmakers
to emerge from Singapore. Cutting her teeth on epic TV productions during an
eight-year stint at both MCS and Channel U, Kat's work on the small screen
includes the highly rated comedy series Durian King (2004), which won
three PROMAX awards including Best Actress. Kat was also Assistant Director for
Kelvin Tong's blockbuster hits such as The Maid, Rule #1 and It’s
A Great Great World. In 2008, Kat made her directorial debut in film with Swimming
Lesson. The tender and surprising short film about a mother's love competed
at the 2009 Singapore International Film Festival and won both the Best Short
Film and Best Director awards. It also won the special jury mention award in
the 7th Vladivostok International Film Festival "Pacific Meridian".
Kat was commissioned by the Singapore Writers Festival to create a short film
under its pre-festival event, Utter 2013. She made her directorial feature
debut with Dance Dance Dragon in 2012.
Boris
Boo
Boris
has been in the industry for 16 years. He was a scriptwriter with Mediacorp
Studios Chinese Drama Division for 6 years, during which he conceptualized and
wrote more than a hundred scripts for various local sitcoms, dramas, and short
films. During his tenure with J Team Productions from 2003 to 2011 as Creative
Director, he was involved in most of the company's movie screenplays and played
a pivotal role in all the J Team TV productions. His work Just Follow Law
(2007) was nominated for Best Original Screenplay in the 44th Golden Horse
Awards and The Ghost Blog (2008) came in third in the Film & TV
Co-Production Meeting organised by the Golden Horse Awards Committee. Boris
made his directorial debut as a co-director to Jack Neo's Where Got Ghost? in
2009. From 2005 to 2009, he was invited to become one of the critics for Lianhe
Zaobao movie column, where he wrote close to a hundred articles. Boris is also
a guest-speaker with the 'Good Morning Singapore' movie segment. In 2011, Boris
left Jack Neo's production house and is currently an independent
filmmaker.
For more
details on the Mentorship Programme, visit www.cine65.sg
Entries
must be submitted by
5 March 2014
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