Filmography
December 17th, 2006 by Colin Goh and Yen Yen Woo
SINGAPORE DREAMING
(2006, feature, super-16mm blown up to 35 mm: 100 minutes)
WINNER: Montblanc New Screenwriters Award at the 54th San Sebastian International Film Festival; Audience Award for Narrative Feature at the 30th Asian American International Film Festival in New York
Synopsis: Disappointed by his failed dreams, Loh Poh Huat visits his frustrations on his family. So when he wins the lottery, everyone believes the money will deliver them from their struggles. However, Loh dies abruptly and his elaborate and surreal Taoist funeral pitches the family into a battle where the stakes are the very meaning of life itself.
“Singapore Dreaming” is a poignant yet darkly humorous story which follows the lives of six individuals as they navigate the rapidly changing conditions experienced in today’s modern South-East Asian cities. The winner of the Montblanc New Screenwriters Award, this “graceful film about capitalism in the East” (Variety) is also the highest-grossing independent Singapore film for the past 8 years.
Read the reviews here Buy Singapore Dreaming DVD onlineCast: Richard Low, Alice Lim, Serene Chen, Yeo Yann Yann, Lim Yu-Beng & Dick Su
Directed and produced by: Woo Yen Yen & Colin Goh
Screenplay: Colin Goh & Woo Yen Yen
Cinematography: Martina Radwan
Music: Sydney Tan
Festivals Played: San Sebastian International Film Festival (Winner: Montblanc New Screenwriters Award; Nominee: Altadis New Directors Award); Singapore International Film Festival (Official Selection); Goteborg International Film Festival; Philadelphia International Film Festival; San Francisco International Film Festival; Belgium Cinema Novo Film Festival (Nominee: Camera Novo Prize; Amakourou Jury Award); Vilnius International Film Festival (Most Promising New Director Award); Asian American International Film Festival (Winner: Audience Award for Narrative Feature)
Upcoming Festivals: Women Make Waves Film Festival in Taiwan (Closing Film); Tokyo International Film Festival (In Competition: Best Asian/Middle Eastern Film Award)
3MEALS
(2005, short, 24p miniDV: 19 minutes 18 secs)
Synopsis: San, under pressure from her mother to “find a good man”, has three disastrous meals – two with would-be suitors, and the last with her mother herself.
Cast: Serene Chen, Lee Kai Boo, David Bottomley and Peggy Ferroa
Directed and produced by: Colin Goh & Woo Yen Yen
Screenplay: Woo Yen Yen & Colin Goh
Cinematography: Ryan Seet
Festivals played: Asian American International Film Festival (New York), Boulder Asian-American International Film Festival 2006, Louis Vuitton Hawaiian International Film Festival 2006
TALKINGCOCK THE MOVIE
(2002, feature, miniDV: 86 minutes)
Synopsis: Based on the popular satirical website run by Colin and Yen Yen, this series of short comic vignettes strung together was filmed on mini-DV for fun and no money, and with an all-amateur cast. The film gained notoriety when it collided with the Singapore censors who objected to the film’s use of naturalistic dialogue, which ran counter to the Singapore Government’s campaigns to make people speak only grammatical English and eradicate Chinese dialects in favour of standard Mandarin.
Cast: Tan Cheng Han, Ronald Leo, Ellen Ji Huan, K.S. Segar, Rauzan bin Rahman
Directed and produced by: Colin Goh & Woo Yen Yen
Screenplay: Colin Goh & Woo Yen Yen
Cinematography: Gerald Gay
Music: Thubten Kway
Festivals played: Singapore International Film Festival, Cinemanila (Philippines), Cinemaya and Third Eye (India), the Gwangju International Film Festival (South Korea), the Far East Film Festival (Udine, Italy) and the Festival du Film Asiatique de Deauville (France) and Asian Days Festival (Warsaw, Poland).
Reviews:
- “…if you’re Singaporean, this is one movie you don’t want to miss.” - Lycos Movies
- “…TalkingCock The Movie has offered a concept of Singapore that is more expansive, subversive and riotous than the clean, peaceful and efficient country most of us are familiar with. … fresh, funny and fascinating. … worth the while simply because of its refreshing, no-holds-barred take on the foibles of Singaporeans.” - The Straits Times
- “TalkingCock The Movie is Singapore’s most unpretentious feature film in the last three years. … the film is an immensely enjoyable screwball comedy that is inspired in its silliness and laudable in its attempt to portray an authentic Singapore and idiosyncratic Singaporeans.” - I-S Magazine
- “(the single film that) stayed with me most beyond the festival… it has a joy more sincere than (films) with many more production techniques at its disposal. …it is truly the film that left the biggest impact on me.” - Film Journal critic Adam Hartzell, at the Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy
eAhLong.com
(2001, short, video: 13 minutes)
Synopsis: The tragicomic tale of how the son of a small-time loan shark in Singapore decides to dot-com his father’s business. Filmed on consumer grade video and using friends and relatives for the cast, it somehow won the Special Achievement Award at the 2001 Singapore International Film Festival
Cast: Chua Kah Sheng, Tan Cheng Han
Screenplay: Colin Goh
Directed and produced by: Colin Goh, Woo Yen Yen and Andy Logam Tan
Cinematography: Colin Cheong
Festivals played: Singapore International Film Festival, Hanover Film Festival, St. Kilda’s Film Festival
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