The 3rd Singapore Indie Doc Fest happens next month from the 8th to 16th of March and will showcase some of the most gripping and resonant independent documentaries in the world today. With a good mix of local and international entries of both feature length and short documentaries, this year’s Indie Doc Fest is set to stir up unfound emotions within the audience as the documentaries take a closer look at the world around them and the dirt that fills up the cracks.
Heck, we’re proud to announce that one of our FEED ME Campaign’s ambassadors is multi-talented enough to be one of the directors of the films that will be showcased during SIDF!
Downstairs, a documentary showcasing the going-ons under what is familiarly termed as the HDB, is directed by Tan Diya as part of her final year project in NTU. (secret service agents told me that this documentary was graded an A project by the profs in the school!)
I’ve managed to have sneak peeks at the film, and I’m tell you. YOU MUST WATCH IT.
Besides Downstairs, be sure to also catch the other outstanding documentaries! We’re nice. We’re giving away 4 pairs of tickets! 1 pair to Dinner with Murakami and 3 pairs to Seeds of Summer!
Seeds of Summer / Israel (NC16 Some Sexual References)
Directed by: Hen Lasker
Date: 8 March 2009
Time: 12noon to 2pm
Location: The Substation Theatre
Seven years after completing an IDF course for female combat soldiers, the director returns to the place where she first fell in love with a woman – her commanding officer. Over the course of 66 days and nights, the film follows the girls in one of the IDF’s most rigorous combat courses and looks at the relationships that develop between girls in an environment subject to strict military code. The film reveals the mechanism that enables the transformation of 18-year-old girls from daddy's little girls into fierce disciplined soldiers. Through the intimate relationship that develops between the director and one of the characters, questions about identity, sexuality and the discovery of femininity surface.
Dinner with Murakami / The Netherlands & Japan(PG)
Directed by: Yan Ting Yuen
Date: 8 March 2009
Time: 5.30pm
Location: The Substation Theatre
A poetic trip into Japan and a world that the elusive author of best-sellers, Haruki Murakami, has painted for his readers. Largely structured around Murakami’s enigmatic absence, the film dramatises Murakami’s impact on his readers and takes the camera into the hinterland to determine what is “Murakamian” in the Japanese landscape. The resulting film has a beautiful sense of discovery about it, of going where it will and sharing its surprises with us; and at the same time (making a superb example of the genre) this openness and curiosity on the part of the filmmaker is shown to be not incompatible with a vigorous sense of form and poetic structure.
Tell us the answer to this question and you stand to win!
The 3rd Singapore Indie Doc Fest is brought to you by The Substation.
True or False?
Send your answer with your name, contact number, partial I/C number (e.g. S8801XXXK), email add and mailing address to by Mar 4, 11.59pm. Indicate ‘Friday Special – SIDF’ in your email header.
Remember to indicate the film that you’ll want to watch! We’ll try our best to accommodate. Winners will be notified by email! SL
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