Her suggestion? Let it be a story "set in the Covid-19 context" where you can see people wearing masks in the film, instead of a Covid-19 story per se. Lan Yu echoed this sentiment as she observed that people are "tired of the whole Covid narrative", although she clarified that it's still very important. Let's tell something else.' So I think it's definitely best to avoid the Covid-19 topics but find something personal, something that could be even within the family." "Then I said, 'No, I don't think we want to tell another Covid-19 story. My whole mind was like Covid, Covid, Covid I couldn't think of anything else," he shared. "Even I had this major difficulty the moment I was given the theme. Not another Covid-19 storyįor this year's theme of Stronger, Together, Yahssir advised against leaning too hard into a Covid-19 story and to explore other definitions of what it means to be stronger together. "I've been through it and it reassured me that there might be something to pursue if you tell a story you believe in," she said. Through that, they hone their craft and skills, and it also gives them a very good medium to explore their stories so they can see where they stand."Īs for Lan Yu, her ciNE65 experience is a little more personal and it has shown her that it's something worth pursuing. I think their main is not to win but to create their short films. He added: "Every ciNE65 season, we have participants who return. He feels that the event is a good stepping stone for aspiring filmmakers as it gives them a "boost to work on something" and creates awareness about them and their work. Yahssir is no stranger to ciNE65 and returns regularly to conduct workshops. And she gets the support of the people in the community to achieve what she wants to do," he said, adding that the film shows how the Pioneer Generation still plays "a pivotal role in our youngsters". "We took this character, a 10-year-old girl, who wants to help another friend and how she goes out of her way. His short film Super Girl shows how "each and every ordinary person can be a super person". At that time, there weren't any national papers and statistics out yet." Good stepping stoneĪnother commissioned filmmaker who dropped by E-Junkies was 37-year-old Yahssir M., who has 15 years of filmmaking experience and is the founder of Millenia Motion Pictures. And it got me thinking about the situation in Singapore. She shared: "I've always read about it on newspapers but it's the first time that I've actually witnessed it on my own and interacted with some of them. The inspiration for this came about after Lan Yu's first interaction with homeless people during an exchange trip to Germany in 2017. This film shows how a homeless man discovers a renewed sense of home when he finds an unlikely companion in a neighbourhood cat. She screened her short film, A Cat's Purpose, for its launch back in November 2020. It consists of three commissioned films, film-making workshops and seminars, a film festival, and a short film competition known as the ciNE65 MMA co-organised with media entertainment company mm2 Entertainment.Īnd Lan Yu is back this year as one of the three commissioned filmmakers for ciNE65 2021. Organised by Nexus, Ministry of Defence, ciNE65 returns for its sixth season this year with the theme Stronger, Together. In a previous interview, she shared that she and her team took "a very hectic two days" to create the short film, and filming itself took about 10 to 12 hours. It's very intriguing how a cab, driving around maybe 12 hours a day, encapsulates so much of what the city is." "I had this idea of a documentary but it's not legal to film with audio in a car, so we had to work our way around it. I'll sit in the front seat - this was before Covid-19 - and talk to them about their day and other stuff," Lan Yu explained. When I take cabs, I'll talk to the uncle. "I've wanted to do a documentary all along because I'm a very kaypoh person. Speaking to AsiaOne on E-Junkies, the 25-year-old shared more of how $ingapura came about.
#Themes in a taxi driver 2017 movie
The three-minute film - which peeks into a day in the life of a taxi driver as he picks up passengers that represent the everyday Singaporean, showing the disparate stories he bears witness to - took home the Overall Best Film and Best Screenplay at last year's ciNE65 Movie Makers Awards (ciNE65 MMA) for the Open Category. Putting together a video project takes a village and a lot of time, but for young local filmmaker Lan Yu, she beat the odds to put together an award-winning short film titled $ingapura in just two days.
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