8th Fly By Night Video Challenge 2010

8th Fly By Night Video Challenge 2010
Co-presented by the Malay Heritage Centre
Co-organised by Objectifs
NOV 26 to 28 , 2010

Registration deadline: Nov 13, 2010
Download form at www.objectifs.com.sg

The space for original voices in filmmaking.. expect the unexpected! A weekend of mayhem and magic. Fly By Night encourages creativity, absurdity, spontaneity and pure fun...

Bringing together a sizable group of enthusiasts, the objective is to "make the video you have always wanted to make in a weekend". You have one weekend to conceptualise and make your 5-minute video with your 4 friends. All entries are submitted on Sunday afternoon and they screen at the same afternoon.

TO PARTICIPATE
Send a completed registration form with a S$25 crossed cheque made payable to "Objectifs Pte Ltd" and mail to 56A Arab Street, Singapore 199753. Payment can also be made in cash at Objectifs (11am-7pm weekdays and 12pm-6pmSaturdays). Registration closes on Nov 13, Sat at 5pm. Receipt of payment is confirmation of participation.

Who's Shooting What in 2010? Eric Khoo

Name of Project: Untitled animation based on Yoshihiro Tatsumi's 'A Drifting Life'

Brief Description of Project: Yoshihiro Tatsumi, a 74-year-old graphic artist, is regarded as the father of gekiga, a term he coined for the darker and more realistic form of manga he created in the late 1950s. For Eric who was writing and drawing comics in his early 20s, Tatsumi was a huge influence. “The more I think back, everything from ‘Mee Pok Man’ to ‘12 Storeys’ has been influenced by him,” (Eric).

The black and white feature animation is based on Tatsumi's autobiographical “A Drifting Life” and will be in Japanese. It will be a co-production between Khoo's Zhao Wei Films and local media production firm Infinite Frameworks. Multimedia artist Brian Gothong Tan will be the lead animator on the project.

Who's Shooting What in 2010? Ellery Ngiam

Name of Project: Forgotten Tears

Brief Description of Project: A family drama of how the living come to grips with life. As a professional mourner, Helen Ying cries at other people's wakes. But she cannot bring herself to mourn her eldest daughter's death. When remaining daughter Emma discovers a link to her deceased sibling, Helen controlled world is shaken. She must confront her deep-rooted grief or risk losing all she has.

Who's Shooting What in 2010? Ho Tzu Nyen

Name of Project: Endless Day

Brief Description of Project: 

Endless Day is an action film inspired by a film entitled A Touch of Zen (1969) made by Hong Kong director King Hu. The treatment of action is such that you can feel the physicality involved with the fight scenes, when you see the protagonist actually panting. 'Until today I still think it's one of the greatest martial arts films ever made.'  Endless Day is a mix between Robinson Crusoe, The Blue Lagoon and A Touch of Zen. It'll be filmed entirely in Singapore.

Project Tagline: In an undeterminable time and place, a boy and a girl try to build themselves a house, in the heart of a tropical paradise. Soon the outside world collapses on them, for fate is on their backs, like a madman with a razorblade...

Who's Shooting What in 2010? Lei Yuan Bin

Name of Project: Redhill Close

Brief Description of Project: 

Redhill Close is a feature film project. Its story is centred around, Vel, an actress who is moving house out of Redhill Close, an old residential estate in Singapore. Not to give away too much about the story, the film is about Redhill, an old residential estate in Singapore. It contains some of the oldest public housing estates. This film is about its eventual disappearance – the people, the place and the shared memories.  It is also about the Malay folk tale of Redhill.

Who's Shooting What in 2010? Jeremy Sing

Name of Project: Ah John (temporary title) 

Brief Description of Project: 'Ah John' is a feature film script Jeremy has been working on and he hopes to complete it this year and start pre-production. 3 characters drive the plot. There is the mother who wonders why God never answers her prayers and considers changing her religion. There is the son who experiments a different side of himself at the expense of an innocent third party. Finally, there is the charismatic Church group leader who, disillusioned by circumstances falters on her principles.

Project Tagline: Could potentially change the way you look at religion.

First Takes Jan 2010 -Fighting Fit by Sulaiman Salamon

This is the 1st Film which gave me an impression of "HUH?! That's it?" situation.
But it is an interesting theme to play with.

It is a common issue where young men will inflict personal injury onto himself to avoid being assigned to infantry unit for 2 years of National Service.

After long verbal fight between the 2 of them,the action to personal injury is committed and everything ended with all the vulgarities at the background noise which attracts me during the credit roll.

So...There's consequences when you intend to make the wrong action.You will Regret along the way,even before the action is done.

Fighting Fit touches on the psychology of wanting something so badly that one is willing to inflict pain upon oneself to achieve his goal.