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Southeast Asian cinema

Despite having a flourishing Chinese and Malay film industry in the 1950s and 1960s, Singapore's film industry declined after independence in 1965. Southeast Asian cinema refers to the Film industry and films produced in and/or by natives of Southeast Asia. The Cinema of Burma (or Myanmar has a long history dating back to the 1910s Cinema in Cambodia began in the 1950s and many films were being screened in theaters throughout the country by the 1960s which are regarded as the "golden age" The cinema of Indonesia has a long history but at present is a small struggling industry The cinema of Malaysia revolves around a small Film industry that dates back to the 1930s The cinema of the Philippines has a history that can be traced back to the early days of Filmmaking in 1897, when a theater owner named Pertierra screened imported The cinema of Thailand has a history that stretches back to early days of filmmaking, when King Chulalongkorn 's 1897 visit to Berne, The cinema of Vietnam has a history that goes back to the 1920s and has largedly been shaped by wars that have been fought in the country from the 1940s to the 1970s The 1950s Decade refers to the years of 1950 to 1959 inclusive The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 Singapore [1] However, there were a few films featuring Singaporean actors and set in Singapore, including Saint Jack and They Call Her Cleopatra Wong. Saint Jack is a 1973 Novel by Paul Theroux and a 1979 film of the same name They Call Her Cleopatra Wong (also known as Cleopatra Wong and Female Big Boss) is a 1978 joint-production of Singapore, Philippines However, most of these did not get released in Singapore and are unable to be labelled as truly Singaporean productions.

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After 1990

Early Pioneers

The first truly Singaporean film came in 1991's Medium Rare, which was based on a true-life local cult killer, Adrian Tan, who was hanged in 1988 for murder. Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. Medium Rare, aka The Medium was Singapore 's first full-length English film produced in 1987. Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) Although costing over S$2 million in production, it performed dismally at the box office. The film took in merely S$130,000 locally but broke the ice for the next coming Singapore movie, Bugis Street, which was released in 1995. Bugis Street, in the City-state of Singapore, was renowned internationally from the 1950s to the 1980s for its nightly gathering of Transwomen, a phenomenon Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Bugis Street is a gaudy film about the famous sleazy district where transvestites and transsexuals can be found. This article deals with the history of the word 'transvestite' Transsexualism is a condition in which a person identifies with a physical Sex different from the one with which they were born The same year saw the release of Mee Pok Man, the first full-length film made by a local Singaporean independent filmmaker, Eric Khoo, on a tight budget of S$100,000. Mee Pok Man is a 1995 Film by Eric Khoo. The film is a Black comedy starring Joe Ng as the male protagonist Johnny and Michelle Goh as Eric Khoo is a Film director from Singapore. He was introduced to the world of cinema at a very early age Concerning a lonely noodle seller who falls for a prostitute, Mee Pok Man earned much critical accolade worldwide and encouraged more experimental, independent filmmaking within the nation. Prostitution is the act of performing Sexual activity in exchange for Money. Mee Pok Man is a 1995 Film by Eric Khoo. The film is a Black comedy starring Joe Ng as the male protagonist Johnny and Michelle Goh as

Army Daze, made in 1996, takes a humorous look into Singapore's national service, and turned in high profits at the box office. Army Daze is a Singaporean Film released in 1996. A Comedy based on the National Service experience by a group of enlistees National service is a common name for mandatory or voluntary government service programs (most often focusing on military service

In 1997 came another Eric Khoo feature film, 12 Storeys, a highly acclaimed local production which was the first Singaporean film to be shown at Cannes. Cannes (kan in Occitan Canas) is a city in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Interweaving 3 stories about life in the HDB high-rise flats, it is seen as a breakthrough for local films, combining a coherent plot with Singaporean production crew and actors, such as Jack Neo and Koh Boon Pin. The Housing and Development Board ( Abbreviation: HDB; Simplified Chinese: 建屋发展局 Malay: Lembaga Pembangunan dan Perumahan Jack Neo Chee Keong ( born January 24, 1960 is a Singaporean Actor, host and Film-maker, most notably known for his The rest of the decade had been encouraging for the growing film industry. Glenn Goei's Forever Fever (1998) was picked up by Miramax for S$4. 5 million and re-released in the U.S. as That’s the Way I Like It. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the These two years saw the releases of a number of other films, such as A Road Less Travelled (1997), God or Dog (1997), Tiger's Whip (1998) and The Teenage Textbook Movie (1998). The Teenage Textbook Movie is a film adaptation of Adrian Tan 's bestselling 1988 novel The Teenage Textbook.

Late 1990s successes

However, it was the phenomenal success of Money No Enough (1998) which eventually catapulted the nation's drive toward movie-making. Money No Enough ( is a Singaporean film written by Jack Neo, directed by Tay Teck Lock and produced by JSP International Using a local crew of actors drawn from television comedies, this heartland comedy written by Jack Neo uses a smattering of Singlish and Hokkien to make a realistic, easily identifiable drama about everybody's quest to earn more quick bucks. Singlish is a creole Interlanguage native to Malaysia and Singapore. The Southern Min language or Min Nan ( POJ: Bân-lâm-gú or "Southern Fujian" language refers to a family of Chinese languages Dialects Made for less than S$1 million, it raked in S$5,800,000, making it the most commercially profitable local film to date. It also demonstrated the viable potential of the Singapore film industry, and the next year would be a boom year for local films. Eight Singaporean feature films were made in that year alone, the most notable being Liang Po Po: The Movie (starring Jack Neo in a reprisal of his television cross-gender role), That One No Enough, the first directorial effect of Jack Neo, and Eating Air, made by film critic Kelvin Tong and film editor Jasmine Ng on a budget of S$800,000. The movie Liang Po Po (梁婆婆重出江湖 was a Singaporean movie produced in 1999 Eating Air did not break even; That One No Enough barely did and only Liang Po Po: The Movie continued the vein of commercial success of Money No Enough, collecting S$3. 03 million.

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The year also marked a watershed for Singapore films. Singapore As Singapore is a small and relatively modern amalgam of Chinese, Malay, Indian and European immigrants the culture of Singapore expresses Dance in Singapore comprises traditional and contemporary forms Singapore 's Demographics describe a population of 448 million as estimated by the last census in 2005 and is the second most densely populated independent country Several steps have to be completed before a citizen can ultimately drive in Singapore. The economy of Singapore is a highly developed capitalist Mixed economy. Education in Singapore is managed by Ministry of Education (MOE which directs Education policy. The major public holidays in Singapore reflect the cultural and religious diversity of the country including the Chinese New Year, Buddhist Vesak Day, There are a multitude of languages spoken in Singapore that reflect its multi-racial society The literature of Singapore comprises a collection of literary works by Singaporeans in any of the country's four main languages English, Chinese, Singapore has a burgeoning urban musical scene and is a center for rock, punk and other popular genres in the region The politics of Singapore take place in a framework of a parliamentary Republic, whereby the Prime Minister of Singapore is the Head of government Singapore is a multi-religious country due to its diverse ethnic mix of peoples originating from various countries Singlish is a creole Interlanguage native to Malaysia and Singapore. Singaporeans participate in a wide variety of Sports for Recreation as well as Competition. Transportation within Singapore is mainly land-based Almost all parts of Singapore are accessible by road including islands such as Sentosa and Jurong Island There are no statistics on how many gay people there are in Singapore or what percentage of the population they constitute Raintree Pictures, the filmmaking subsidiary of MediaCorp Productions, was started. MediaCorp Raintree Pictures ( is a Film production Company based in Singapore. MediaCorp ( is a state-owned group of commercial media companies in Singapore specialising primarily in Television and Radio Broadcasting Raintree Pictures invested in two regional co-productions, Liang Po Po and The Truth About Jane and Sam, which starred Singaporean television lead actress Fann Wong with Taiwanese singer Peter Ho and Hong Kong director Derek Yee. The Truth About Jane and Sam ( Chinese: 真心話 Simplified Chinese: 真心话 is a Hong Kong film co-produced by Hong Kong's Film Unlimited Fann Woon Fong ( born January 27, 1971) better known by her Stage name Fann Wong, is a Singaporean Actress, Taiwan ( Taiwanese: Tâi-oân/Tāi-oân (historically 大灣/台員/大員/台圓/大圓/台窩灣 is an Island in East Asia. Hong Kong ( officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located on China 's south coast on the Pearl River Delta, and borders Derek Tung-Sing Yee ( born in 1957 is a Hong Kong Film director and former Shaw Brothers Actor, who has achieved fame and Raintree Pictures would finance a number of local and Hong Kong productions in years to come, and are the producer company of the films of Jack Neo. Subsequent productions, such as 2000 AD (2000) and The Tree (2001) also draws on Hong Kong star power; the company invested in critically acclaimed regional films such as The Eye (2002) and Infernal Affairs II (2003). 2000 AD ( is a 2000 Hong Kong action film directed by Gordon Chan and co-produced by Media Asia Films and People's The Tree is an autobiographical book by John Fowles. In it Fowles discusses the essence of nature and its relation to the creative arts and especially writing Raintree Pictures also produced two English-language local productions, Chicken Rice War (2000) and One Leg Kicking (2001). Chicken Rice War is a Singaporean film released in 2000 by Raintree Pictures One Leg Kicking is a 2001 Singapore comedy-film movie that is about the Singlish -speaking Singaporeans and the English-speaking people from other countries that

With the financing of a local production company and the setting of organizations such as the Singapore Film Commission (SFC, set up in 1998), budding filmmakers, especially independent ones, are finding it easier to make movies on subsidies and loaned funding. The advent of digital video also meant that some novice filmmakers can experiment with cheaper alternatives. Digital video is a type of Video recording system that works by using a Digital rather than an analog video signal Features like Stories about Love (2000) and Return to Pontianak (2001) are both shot on digital videos, but they have not been commercial success.

Jack Neo and Royston Tan

The success story since the turn of the century must be from local comedian-turned-director Jack Neo. Financed by Raintree Pictures, he has made a number of hits dealing with the heartland problems of Singapore in an engaging and deceptively light-hearted fashion. I Not Stupid (2002) is a peek into the ultra-competitive academic lifestyle as seen through three local students who do poorly in grades; its acerbic social commentary marks another height for Singaporean films. I Not Stupid ( is a Singaporean film written and directed by Jack Neo, and produced by MediaCorp Raintree Pictures. Homerun (2003) is a remake of the Iranian Children of Heaven in a local, pre-independent era context; it won for its young lead Megan Zheng the first Golden Horse Award for Best Newcomer. Children of Heaven ( is a 1997 Iranian film It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1998. Megan Zheng (also known as Megan Tay,, born 8 October 1993) is a Singaporean actress who starred in two Singaporean movies Homerun The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards ( is a Film festival and awards ceremony held annually in Taiwan (the Republic of China) since 1962 The Best Bet (2004) takes a humorous dig at the heartlanders' obsessions with lotteries. The Best Bet is a Singaporean film as well as a Singaporean television series Neo is averaging a film per year and his productions feature local (usually television) artistes in filmic roles. They have been successes locally as well as abroad, especially in those places with a Chinese-language market, such as Hong Kong. He has started his own artiste management company, J-Team Productions.

Royston Tan, a young Singapore TV commercial director who has been making award-winning shorts for years, released 15: The Movie, his first feature, in 2003. Royston Tan ( born 5 October 1976) is a gay Singapore filmmaker An expanded version of an earlier short film he made, this 90-min movie on the fringe and drug-abusing delinquents uses bold subject-matter, some graphic scenes with non-professional actors. When the film censorship board passed it with cuts, it prompted a backlash from the director in the form of Cut, an all-singing musical satire a la Tsai Ming-liang lampooning the system. Tsai Ming-liang ( (born 1957) is one of the most celebrated "Second New Wave" Film directors of Taiwanese Cinema, along with earlier Interestingly, this short film was passed uncensored by the board and was seen during the Singapore International Film Festival, but there were open discussions about it during local parliamentary sessions prompting remarks that the government was "not amused" by the thinly veiled attack on Singapore censorship. The Singapore International Film Festival ( Chinese: 新加坡国际电影节 was launched in 1987. Royston Tan has since made two more features, 0430 (2006) and 881 (2007). Events By Place Europe Charles the Fat is crowned Western Emperor

2005 and beyond

2005 can be seen as another mini-boom year for Singapore cinema, with commercially successful fare like Kelvin Tong's horror flick The Maid, two Jack-Neo co-directed movies, I Do I Do and One More Chance; and less mainstream offerings like Eric Khoo's critically acclaimed Cannes opener Be with Me and Djinn's dark take on Scorsese's Taxi Driver, Perth. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Kelvin Tong ( Simplified Chinese: 唐永健 is a Singaporean Film director, Screenwriter and producer. The Maid is a 2005 Singaporean Horror film telling of a Maid recently arriving from the Philippines. Eric Khoo is a Film director from Singapore. He was introduced to the world of cinema at a very early age The Cannes Film Festival (le Festival de Cannes founded in 1946 is one of the world's oldest most influential and prestigious Film festivals alongside Venice, Taxi Driver is a film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader.

In 2006, Singapore films began exploring new ways to find an audience with the independent feature Becoming Royston. Becoming Royston is a full-length feature film directed by Nicholas Chee and produced by Originasian Pictures. Whilst paying homage to the above-mentioned filmmaker, new startup Originasian Pictures launched themselves into the industry with a comprehensive web marketing champaign. Originasian Pictures is a content producer of films and television programmes based in Singapore Becoming Royston's official movie site crash only after three days of its launch. Over half-hour of the 90 minute film was made available free online. The film then went on its festival run in Europe and South Asia and is slated for a 2007 release. 2006 also saw the premiere of Singapore Dreaming by Woo Yen Yen and Colin Goh, who won the Montblanc New Screenwriters Award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival, the first Singaporeans to do so. The film has also played at numerous festivals worldwide, and in 2007, also became the first Singaporean feature to win the Audience Award for Narrative Feature at the Asian American International Film Festival in New York.

In 2007, Jack Neo released another film known as Just Follow Law (我们在政府部门的日子) which takes a dig at the bureaucracy in the civil service, as well as the lengthy procedures one has to go through in Singapore to get a permit for various things. Just Follow Law ( is a Singapore -produced comedy Film starring Fann Wong and Gurmit Singh. This film garnered generally positive reviews and was moderately successful at the box office. However, the success story of the year was Royston Tan's 881, which brought Singapore's seventh month getai culture to the big screens. 881 is a Singaporean musical - comedy - Drama film written and directed by Royston Tan, based on the Singapore Getai is also an alternate transliteration of Getae. A Getai (literally song stage ( Simplified Chinese: 歌台 is a usually boisterous While it was intended to be a niche film, it exceeded expectations and became one of the highest grossing local films of all time. Critics generally gave it positive reviews and it is generally believed that it was the fact that the film gave the younger Singaporean Chinese more insight into their traditional culture which made it a success. In addition, the use of Hokkien songs, which have been surpressed by the government as part of the Speak Mandarin Campaign may have contributed to its popularity. The Speak Mandarin Campaign ( SMC;)is an initiative by the Government of Singapore to encourage Singapore 's Singaporean Chinese population to

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Asian cinema refers to the film industries and films produced in the continent of Asia. Censorship in Singapore mainly targets sexual political racial and religious issues as defined by an ever-shifting panoply of out-of-bounds markers. Southeast Asian cinema refers to the Film industry and films produced in and/or by natives of Southeast Asia. East Asian cinema is a term used to refer to the Film industry and films produced in and/or by natives of East Asia. The cinema of Malaysia revolves around a small Film industry that dates back to the 1930s World cinema is a term used primarily in English language speaking countries to refer to the Films and film industries of non-English speaking countries This is a list of Singaporean films, including foreign films which involved collaborations or co-productions with Singaporean film makers or artists marked accordingly in the list as follows The following lists local and international movies which were set in Singapore at least in part This is a list of Cinemas in Singapore: Here are the top-grossing Films in Singapore based on total receipts to December 2006 in Singapore dollars Top-grossing films of all time
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