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NTU students distribute flyers at Orchard Road to save the local film scene

These NTU students would do anything to save to save the local film scene here, even to the extent of walking around Orchard Road, and distributing flyers to support their cause.

As part of the ‘Save our Film’ campaign this year, students from the Nanyang Technological University team behind this campaign are doing their part to save local films.

The ‘Save Our Film’ campaign, a pioneer film heritage initiative, saw the students involved hold ‘on-the-street-awareness’ programs, where they reached out to members of the public at Orchard Cineleisure, the Cathy and Bugis Junction.

The students distributed flyers, put up a video projection about their campaign and even gave out DVDs as part of a contest giveaway at the various venues.

The students hope that through this campaign, young people would discover great local films in our nation’s history, after talking to the older generation and gleaming from their experiences.

They expect to hold a final ‘on-the-street-awareness’ event at Orchard Road next Saturday (Mar 6).

Keywords:  Orchard Road film
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letrompettiste said   on 8 Mar, 2010   Report as offensive  
Local films are abundant if you look hard enough. Roystan Tan, Sanif Olek, Jack Neo, Eric Khoo, etc. There are short films produced by local directors, and there are movie films you watch in cinemas. There are films shown in private screening sessions and there are local short films produced by our very own young and upcoming talents. If you have to ask which local films are worth watching, then you probably are not even interested in the local film industry to even bother to find out.

SAVE OUR LOCAL FILMS!
restraint said   on 28 Feb, 2010   Report as offensive  
Hm, this is quite unusual, but anything to bridge generations shd be good cause. Quite sad tt stompers here dun seem to support local film though, at least if we have it, next time got something to show our kids abt SG now.
babykatiegirl said   on 26 Feb, 2010   Report as offensive  
Those kids doesn't even know what they're doing. Saving national heritage, yes. Being paid to save national booster, no.
taumajid2009 said   on 26 Feb, 2010   Report as offensive  
WHAT LOCAL FILM???JUST NAME ME A LOCAL FILM THAT"S WORTH WATCHING FIRST
boyinabush said   on 26 Feb, 2010   Report as offensive  
google their campaign and you will see that it's not about making us watch more local film. They are talking about lost films and keeping our heritage. True, local films now kinda suck but there was a time when Singapore films were rather enjoyable. P.Ramlee, anyone?
benister said   on 26 Feb, 2010   Report as offensive  
i dunno if i am missing the pt here but if u go visit their website, i think what they r doing is so admirable! they are highlighting the great films done in the 50s and 60s... that people have forgotten and those need to be saved, and be kept alive, by getting more people to be aware of them, and to have more venues to screen them... a Singapore before our times. I dun think they are trying to promote the Jack Neos or the Eric Khoos or the wannabe filmmakers...
dominic247 said   on 25 Feb, 2010   Report as offensive  
How do we support the local scene when there is nothing good to support? Seriously, much of the art work produced locally has been real crap.
GooseGeese said   on 25 Feb, 2010   Report as offensive  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2l3gSGKWjo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGfFoU5paU4
These are two of many old Singaporean films in 1970s. There are a lot of old local films before Jack Neo that are NOT mediacorp that are VERY INTERESTING.