For more information, please see: http://www.up-and-coming.de/Festival-2011.278+M52087573ab0.0.html

It will also be competing at the 21st DaKINO International Film Festival in Bucharest, Romania.

Please see: http://www.dakinoiff.ro/?page_id=215&lang=en

Outing was there last year and I had a really great time. The festival had a great film selection, warm hosts and was a very nice city. Had a great time watching so many good films and exploring the city with my fellow filmmakers.

Great to be going back!

For more information, please see: http://vladivostokfilmfestival.ru/en/programme/1/1038/

“At the press conference five members of the international jury were named who will evaluate 10 feature and 10 short films of Asian Pacific countries, filmed in 2010-2011 included in the “Competition” program. The chairman of jury this year will be Tony Rayns, a British writer, film critic, screenwriter, one of the leading specialists in the field of study and interpretation of East Asian cinema. The jury will also include Singapore’s film critic Philip Cheah, a Russian producer Raissa K. Fomina, German film director, producer and screenwriter Jan Schütte and Filipino director Lav Diaz.

In this year’s festival will participate pictures from 40 countries, the program includes approximately 170 full-length and short films.”

“InDPanda means “In-D-panda”. This kind of independent panda is a new discovery of the independent scene. You may once got the “panda eyes” when you never stop watching the films you love overnight. The annual InDPanda International Short Film Festival highlights short films with different genres and topics from all over the world. It aims to make you back for love of independent films. The black and white colour of panda reminds you the basic concept of independent production. Just a simple idea, even without big budget, you can still make excellent short films. It’s SO BASIC.“

For more information, please see: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=244771338880819&set=a.244770482214238.67058.142345682456719&type=1&theater

“A total of 128 short films from Taiwan and abroad will be shown at next month’s Kavalan International Short Film Festival in Yilan County. This is the first time a major international short film festival has ever been held in Taiwan. Out of 278 submissions received, 40 will be shown during the festival, which runs from Aug. 20 to 28. The finalists come from 13 countries, including Afghanistan, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands and Spain.”

Beautiful description of the film in Mandarin on the festival website:

“社会的角落里，一对父子努力地适应着失去妈妈的生活，但经济上的困窘却又无情地找上他们……。新加坡导演姚志衞以写实压抑的笔触，描写边缘生活中所见的人情冷暖与亲情难题，无奈感伤的气氛教人心痛。”

For more information, please see: http://www.kisff.tw/2011/film_detail.php?fno=105

Thanks to everyone who told me they liked the film over the past two years whenever I attended the screenings. I really appreciate and feel humbled by the warm reception that the film has received.  Thank you.

Waiting has been selected for the shorts competition at the Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival in Armenia held from  July 10-17, 2011. Delighted to know that.

“Golden Apricot” 8th Yerevan Film Festival has a new competition program, “Apricot Stone,” which includes short films. (It) gives the young filmmakers the opportunity to fulfill their ideas, express their own requirements and standards for selecting films and also make their own voting under this new competition title. Through the films shown in the “Apricot Stone” the young coordinators tried to understand “tomorrow’s” cinema with the genre differences.

For more information, please see: http://www.gaiff.am/en/apricotstone/waiting/

I’m pleased and excited to know that Waiting will have two screenings come June.

One will take place in early June at the 27th Festroia International Film Festival in Setúbal, Portugal.

“The 27. Edition of Festroia - Festival Internacional de Cine de Setubal will be held this year from 3 to 12 June and will feature 180 films from 40 countries, numbers representing the diversity that characterizes the only Portuguese festival included in prestigious annual calendar of FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers Associations).”

The other screening will be in competition in Zanzibar, Tanzania at the 14th Zanzibar International Film Festival during late June.

“ZIFF remains the largest cultural event in the East African calendar celebrating the
indefatigable strength of culture as a key driving force to development and the central
position of film and visual cultures in this.”

It’s nice to know that the film will be screening at these festivals. Really hope the audiences enjoy the film!

For more info on Festroia, please see: http://www.festroia.pt/

For more info on ZIFF, please see: http://www.ziff.or.tz/films/waiting-deng-dai-jia-20min-singapore

The film was also given a ‘Jury Special Mention’ for both ‘Best Director’ and ‘Best Performance’ for Wei He in the role of the father. A big thank you to the jury and pre-selection jury for giving the film a chance to be recognized.

I hope this recognizes the hard work put in by everyone working on the film from the producers who worked tirelessly to make sure that we were prepared for our shoot, the crew as well and the actors who always gave me their time and were willing to try anything I suggested.

A big thank you to everyone who contributed and supported the film.

For more information on all the winners, please see: http://www.substation.org/2SSFA/news/?p=16

Outing will be screening at the 7th Akbank Short Film Festival in Istanbul, Turkey. The film will be screening for two days on the 11th and 15th of March.

For more information, please see: http://www.akbanksanat.com/web/502-9887-1-1/akbank_sanat/7__kisa_film_festivali/festival_bolumleri/outing

Waiting has been nominated for ‘Best Script’ at the 2nd Singapore Short Film Awards 2011. A big thank you to everyone who contributed to and supported the film!

Here are the full list of nominees: http://www.substation.org/2SSFA/nominees.html

Waiting will be screening under Programme P, on 5th Mar (Sat) from 7:15pm – 8:30pm at the Substation. (http://www.substation.org/2SSFA/programme6f.html)

Also held concurrently is ‘MISE EN Sin’, presented by Sindie. The first ever poster exhibition of Singapore films. Outing’s poster will be part of the over 100 posters on display. http://www.flickr.com/photos/57888260@N03/5463892171

For more information of all the events at the Short Film Awards, please see: http://www.substation.org/2SSFA/index.php