“The Singapore Media Festival brings together the most important Film and TV events in Singapore under one umbrella. With media convergence, I foresee that the SMF will encompass even more content formats in future, and will keep Singapore on the cutting-edge of media development. I am confident the SMF will be a signature media event for Singapore and the world for many years to come.” WorldYearsImportantTogetherFilmCuttingMediaEventsTvsDevelopmentEdgesFestivalsFormatSignaturesSingaporeUmbrellaCutting EdgeConvergence Author:Calvin Cheng
“Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate--its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting.” SaidFilmValuesNextOpportunitySoundInterestFiveMinutesEventsPaintingInvestmentRateSpeedSubstanceDistinctionBitesConsumptionWickednessFive MinutesRelentlessInstagramTextureTweetDeliveryInterest RateClipWarholSound BitesSporting EventsTinderTardiness Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievement of human culture as the telling of a story to be shattered into smithereens by commercials, the same amazement we feel today when we look at our ancestors for whom slavery, capital punishment, burning of witches, and the inquisition were acceptable everyday events.” FeelsHumansLooksStoriesTodayFilmCultureCenturyEventsAchievementHollywoodSlaveryEverydayPunishmentBurningWitchAncestorAcceptableGrandchildrenShatteredAmazementCapital PunishmentInquisitionGreat Grandchildren Author:Werner Herzog
“The Deer Hunter is securely on my list of American movie events, by which I mean those films that aspired to the whole equation, to be show business and art at the same time.” MeanArtWholeShowsFilmEventsHollywoodListsHuntersEquationsShow BusinessDeerAmerican MovieDeer Hunter Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“Im drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. Im not saying I dont love films about super-people or super-doctors, but my preference is for stories about how we get through this life, what it is to be human, because Im always struggling with it myself.” PeopleHumansIdeasStoriesFilmEmotionStruggleEventsOrdinaryDoctorsExtraordinaryThis LifePreferenceOrdinary PeopleTangledLove Films Author:Sophie Okonedo
“Memory is strange. Scientifically, it is not a mechanical means of repeating something. I can think a thousand times about when I broke my leg at the age of ten, but it is never the same thing which comes to mind when I think about it. My memory of this event has never been, in reality, anything except the memory of my last memory of that event. This is why I use the image of a palimpsest - something written over something partially erased - that is what memory is for me. It's not a film you play back in exactly the same way. It's like theater, with characters who appear from time to time.” ThinkingWayMindMeanI CanPlayCharacterUseRealityAgeLastsFilmMemoriesWrittenEventsStrangeThousandTenTheaterLegsBrokePalimpsest Author:Gore Vidal
“And 'Sex Drugs Rock Roll' was a very transitional film for me in that I was one of the producers and you know, came up with the idea with the writer and the producer, as well. But, it was a very collaborative event. You know, I really love working in that way.” KnowsWayWellsIdeasFilmSexRocksEventsDrugProducersSex Drugs Author:Andy Serkis
“If you watch the evening news, Dr. Kissinger is very often brought on to sort of be the statesman of his age and to reflect dispassionately on world events. And so a film challenging his legacy, a film that assesses charges that are quite grave against him, is something that is touchy for the media to show.” IfsWorldShowsAgeFilmChallengesWatchesMediaEventsNewsGravesEveningLegacyDrsStatesmenTouchyKissingerWorld Events Author:Eugene Jarecki
“I can't always be making "British films". Why should we be making films about corsets and horses and girls learning to drive when Americans send over an event movie and make five or 10 million?” ShouldI CanFilmGirlMillionsFiveEventsHorseBritishCorsetsBritish Film Author:Noel Clarke
“One of my favorite horror films of the Nineties was 'Event Horizon.'” FilmEventsHorrorMy FavoriteHorizonHorror FilmEvent Horizon Author:Kirk Hammett
“The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.” ArtFilmPurposeArtistSongActorsEffectsEventsTragedyTheaterHistoricalEtcEpicAlienationTransparencyChorusHistorical Context Author:Bertolt Brecht
“I like to think traditional narrative can be subverted by an experiential narrative, by an immersion in the temporal event of the film and a a play with our expectations of that.” ThinkingPlayFilmEventsExpectationsTraditionalNarrativeImmersion Author:Rick Alverson
“A "name" no longer carries a film. People used to go to the cinema to see a "John Wayne film." And you don't have that thing happening now except in the rock world, which has taken the event out of movies.” PeopleWorldFilmUsedNamesTakenRocksEventsHappeningsThings HappenCinemaCarrieWayne Author:Elizabeth Taylor
“I never thought about whether film is inherently more sincere, because certainly I think if Guy Maddin had directed A Series Of Unfortunate Events, there probably could have been more of the stage-y irony that is in the books. But I was just interested to see what people would do with it, and worrying that Brad Silberling wouldn't do what I had in mind.” PeopleIfsThinkingMindHas BeensBookFilmGuyWorryStageEventsSeriesIronySincereUnfortunateCould Have BeenBradUnfortunate EventsSeries Of Unfortunate Events Author:Daniel Handler
“Actually, I was rock climbing on this film at 7 in the morning. It was quite unique! But in any event, the colour of the leaves disturbed me so we had to work on that. On the other hand, I didn't want to drench it in a kind of depressing tone.” WantKindHandsFilmMorningRocksEventsUniqueToneColourClimbingDepressingDisturbedRock Climbing Author:Martin Scorsese
“Sadly most films only get exposure if they win an award or were in a festival, which is really difficult because those things cost money! Submitting your film to a festival or campaigning for an Oscar or a Golden Globe is very expensive. Most people don't know that, but all those events require a lot of money. If you have a small independent film, it's very hard to get the attention of people in those circles.” PeopleIfsKnowsHardFilmWinningDifficultAttentionEventsCostIndependentCirclesGoldenExpensiveAwardsLots Of MoneyGlobesOscarsExposureFestivalsIndependent FilmCampaigning Author:Kate del Castillo
“The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery. That itself is a crime because slavery is a very important historical event that has held our people hostage. Forget white people's role in it. In the end what's important is black people remain and live with the scars and psychological issues.” PeopleNeedsMadeImportantEndsStoriesFilmBlackWhiteForgetRolesIssuesEventsCrimeSlaveryHistoricalPsychologicalBlack PeopleScarWhat's ImportantTrue StoryHostageHistorical Events Author:Haile Gerima
“One of the problems with episodic television of any color is that everything has got to be okay at the end of the episode so it can start again next week. So the events that occur are rarely life-changing. But with film, you can say that this thing only happened once; this is a major thing that happened to these people.” PeopleEndsProblemFilmNextHappenedWeekEventsTelevisionColorMajorsOkayLife ChangingEpisodesNext Week Author:Peter Capaldi
“If you respect the events and respect the real life tragedy, you can drive your film to address it in some mature way.” IfsWayRealFilmEventsTragedyReal LifeAddressesMature Author:James Mangold
“If you are able to see on a monitor what it's actually going to look like and have that kind of feedback informing your decisions, then you're bringing back a lot of the decision-making process of the designer, the director of photography and the director away from the post-production process and bringing it back into the actual capturing of the event on film.” IfsLooksKindAbleFilmProcessDecisionEventsDirectorsPhotographyProductionsPostsDesignerDecision MakingFeedbackInformingDecision Making ProcessPost Production Author:Rick Heinrichs
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature... The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.” FilmBlackWhiteRecordsEventsUglyMediumsUncomfortableExcitementBlack And WhiteNastySignatures Author:Brian Eno
“Providing clean, efficient solar/electric generators to industries such as oil companies, spanning from film and event production, construction, disaster relief, agriculture, forestry, and nonprofit organizations. We're literally helping green oil companies, helping them find ways to pollute less while creating jobs. When I look at the breadth of positive impact these technologies can have, I truly get excited. Imagine a generator where ZERO fuel is used!” WayLooksHelpingJobsFilmUsedCompanyTechnologyImagineEventsIndustryCreatingOrganizationGreenImpactCleanProductionsExcitedOilDisasterFuelReliefZeroConstructionEfficientElectricProvidingAgricultureBreadthPositive ImpactNonprofitsOil CompaniesGeneratorCreating JobsDisaster Relief Author:Ian Somerhalder
“It's very rare that you get to play a character over the course of so many films. Bella meant a lot to me and she will always be such a formative event in my career. I grew up with her and she and I have been on this great journey together. I also see many parallels between her evolution and my own because I lived through so many things along the way while playing Bella and having this connection to so many people involved in making the films over the years. It would be impossible for me to separate my world from Bella's.” PeopleWorldWayYearsHas BeensPlayCharacterWould BeTogetherFilmCoursesMy OwnCareersImpossibleJourneyEventsGrewEvolutionInvolvedGrew UpConnectionsParallelsGreat JourneysJourney Together Author:Kristen Stewart
“I think any film that is based on life or real events you want it to be accurate but what really matters is that it's truthful. That is not always the same thing. You really want to convey the spirit of the enterprise rather than ticking every single factual box.” ThinkingWantRealMatterFilmSpiritEventsBoxesEnterpriseTruthfulAccurateFactual Author:Lucinda Coxon
“There's a difference between the way I see it and the character's interpretation of the events, so the rules within the film are the rules within the film.” WayCharacterFilmDifferencesEventsInterpretation Author:David Robert Mitchell
“Our biggest art forms are film and television, and there hasn't been a great film about 9/11 yet, nor has there been a great television series. Something like The Wire gives us a rich and fully achieved picture of the wasteful, cruel War on Drugs; something like The White Ribbon gives a perspective on World War I that could only have been presented long after the event itself.” WorldGivingLongHas BeensArtWarFilmFormWhiteRichEventsTelevisionPerspectiveDrugSeriesWar Of The WorldsWorld War IWireWar On DrugsRibbonsGreat FilmFilm And Television Author:Teju Cole
“I don't know if you've ever seen some of the Sidney Lumet movies, like Dog Day Afternoon [1975] or Network [1976]. They're real events that happen in real time, and there are all of these different characters experiencing the same thing in different parts of the movie ... I am so bad at explaining my films. But it's in the world of finance and the world of media, and how they connect. It was a big undertaking. A big, mainstream movie, which stars Julia Roberts and George Clooney. But for me, it's really just a small story about character and people.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldDifferentRealCharacterStoriesBigsHappensFilmStarsMediaDogEventsFinanceAfternoonMainstreamExplainingUndertakingsJuliaDifferent CharactersDog Days Author:Jodie Foster
“I had to imagine myself into certain aspects of [Julian Assange] character for our version of events. That involved extrapolating based on clues in his biography, his public persona, photographs, and other accounts of him by people who encountered him during that extraordinary period from 2007 to 2010 that we charted in the film [The Fifth Estate]. So, it involved a lot of research but, sadly, no contact with the man himself.” PeopleMenCharacterFilmCertainImagineEventsHe ManInvolvedPeriodsResearchAspectAccountsExtraordinaryPhotographVersionsContactEstatesBiographiesClueFifthPersonaAssange Author:Benedict Cumberbatch