There is now a great new way to support the local movie industry and watch over Singapore short films free of charge. Viddsee has come up with a new video sharing platform for local film makers and film festivals to utilise. Read on to find out more.
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Viddsee partners with Singapore Short Film Awards to showcase top local short films
Viddsee partners with Singapore Short Film Awards (SSFA) to showcase nominated short films from past editions of SSFA. The new online social watching platform, Viddsee, streams short films from Southeast Asia and streamlines the process of discovering, watching and sharing regional stories for a global online audience.
Viddsee is co-founded by filmmaker-engineers Ho Jia Jian and Derek Tan. The duo is passionate about the marriage between art and technology and aims to grow the community of short film audience by enabling a wide and accessible market reach for short films.
Working with local filmmakers and film festivals to make local content accessible is key to grooming our local content audience. Viddsee has collaborated with local filmmakers like Kelvin Sng and Ray Pang in premiering their short films online. For this year’s SSFA, which runs at The Substation from the 25th February to 3rd March, SSFA will showcase some of its nominated films from last year’s awards on Viddsee. Audience can expect a line-up of 9 short films with one film released everyday at 7pm starting from 15th February 2013.
The organisers of SSFA, Aishah Abu Bakar and Leong Puiyee, jointly adds, “The Singapore Short Film Awards is happy to be collaborating with Viddsee on a digital platform to showcase some of the nominated films from the past editions of SSFA. Audience are now able to re-watch some of the best Singapore short films from the SSFA through Viddsee. Watching films online is now the norm and we are able to reach out to international audiences as well through our collaboration with Viddsee.”
So far, three short films have been released.
by Hillary Yeo / Singapore / 19 min
A giant monster arises, find out at what cost does it take for a giant robot to take it down. Awarded Best Art Direction, Nominated for Best Director, Animation, Script.
by Wendy Chee / Singapore / 18 min
Why should you sleep more? Nominated for Best Art Direction
by Jeanette Lim, Yap Jun Hua, Audrey Woon, Wallace Woon / Singapore / 8 min
What’s your hope for the future? Have a glimpse into the lives of Bangladeshi workers in Singapore. Nominated for Best Documentary, Editing, Cinematography.
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Audience can login to Viddsee at www.viddsee.com/ssfa to watch the selection of short films from SSFA, and over 1000 minutes of short films from Southeast Asia, free of charge.
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FILM SCHEDULE
The selected nominees and winners’ films of 2012 to be screened online are:
Friday 15th Feb
GODAIZER by Hillary Yeo
Awarded Best Art Direction
Nominated for Best Director, Animation, Script
Saturday 16th Feb
MANDY’S 8 THEORIES OF SLEEP by Wendy Chee
Nominated for Best Art Direction
Sunday 17th Feb
EXISTENCE by Jeanette Lim
Nominated for Best Documentary, Editing, Cinematography
Monday 18th Feb
LIBERTAS by Kan Lume
Nominated for Best Animation
Tuesday 19th Feb
LOVE IN ANY GENRE by Suffian Zain
Nominated for Best Art Direction, Performance
Wednesday 20th Feb
WILD DOGS by Saravanan Sambasivam
Awarded Best Editing
Nominated for Best Documentary
Thursday 21st Feb
A CLOUDY CONUNDRUM by Woo Ying Tong, Samantha Lee Suyi, Calvin Chua Tin Giap, Poh Siang Kee and Yvonne Ng Yuwen
Nominated for Best Animation
Friday 22nd Feb
HENTAK KAKI by James Khoo
Awarded Best Performance
Nominated for Best Director, Script
Saturday 23rd Feb
THIN AIR by Kirsten Tan
Nominated for Best Fiction
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