Singapore Film Commission awards $1.6m to new directors

Screen Daily, 3 Oct 2008, Liz Shackleton in Pusan

Nine Singapore directors have each received $170,000 (S$250,000) to direct their first feature-length film under the Singapore Film Commission's New Feature Film Fund.

Funding was granted on the basis that each project has the potential to carry a Singapore-made story to overseas markets.

The projects include Japan-Singapore co-production Thunder Boys as well as two films to be produced by Eric Khoo's Zhao Wei Films – Sandcastle and The Innocents - A Time For Youth. Sandcastle was also selected for the on-going Pusan Promotion Plan.

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