The 8th Singapore Chinese Film Festival (SCFF2020), co-organised by the Centre for Chinese Studies@SUSS (CCS) and Singapore Film Society (SFS), was held from 2 to 11 Oct 2020.
To adapt to the new normal this year, the organisers adopted a hybrid online-physical model, holding physical screenings while making some titles available online.
The 33 films selected for SCFF2020 are divided into five categories: Chinese Panorama, Documentary Vision, Chinese Shorts Showcase, (Non) Chinese Language Cinema and Amoy Dialect Classics. The opening film is Changfeng Town, directed by Chinese director Wang Jing and co-produced by Singaporean filmmaker Tay Bee Pin. The closing film is the much anticipated Hong Kong movie Suk Suk, which is a poignant romance between two men in their twilight years.
Amoy Dialect Classics is a segment that comprises three Amoy-dialect films starring Xiao Juan (Ling Po) and Xiao Fang (Zhuang Xue Fang) selected by Yeo Ming Hui, our guest curator who is a local film researcher. These three films were made available to watch for free online by the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute from 3 to 9 Oct.
Click here to watch the video of the interview conducted by Hello Singapore with A/P Foo Tee Tuan, the director of SCFF2020, and Ms Yeo.
As filmmakers were unable to meet moviegoers in person this year, the majority of post-screening Q&A sessions were conducted online and broadcast live on Facebook and YouTube. The Q&A session of Beyond the Dream, which garnered about 3,700 views, had fans interacting with Terrance Lau and Cecilia Choi, who play the main characters in the movie.
Click here to watch all the post-screening SCFF2020 Q&A sessions.
Sponsors of SCFF2020 include the Chinese Language & Culture Fund, Hong Leong Foundation, and Taipei Representative Office in Singapore. Filmgarde Cineplexes and KinoLounge by Shaw Theatres are the venue partner and the virtual screening partner respectively. It is worth noting that Valerie Lei and Cheryl Pek, two SUSS students who took the Singapore Chinese Film Festival internship course, assisted in the social media management of the film festival.
To know more about SCFF2020, please visit https://scff.sg
新跃中华学术中心与新加坡电影协会在2020年10月2日至10月11日之间举办了第八届新加坡华语电影节
新加坡华语电影节向来都是在每年4月至5月间举办，但由于受到2019年新型冠状病毒疫情影响，本届电影节延迟至下半年才举行，规模和形式也相应调整，以“双轨“模式在电影院和线上放映33部影片。
这33部影片分为五大单元，即“华夏风情画”、“纪录片视角”、“华流短片展”、“华人非华语”和“聚焦厦语片”，开幕片为中国导演王晶的《长风镇》，闭幕片则为备受瞩目的港片《叔·叔》。
其中，“聚焦厦语片”这个经典单元请到本地学者杨明慧担任单元策展人，由她挑选出小娟（凌波）和小芳（庄雪芳）主演的三部影片，由台湾电影中心（Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute）在网上免费放映。以下为新传媒时事节目“狮城有约”和策展人符诗专副教授及杨明慧进行的专访：
由于影人无法前来新加坡，在电影放映之后与观众交流，所以本届电影节的多场映后座谈也改以线上直播的形式进行。其中《幻爱》这部电影的映后交流活动就吸引到了许多影迷参与:
点击此处观看所有映后座谈的直播录影。
第八届新加坡华语电影节能够在短时间内成功举行，有赖于各方的鼎力支持，包括赞助商中华语言文化基金、丰隆基金和驻新加坡台北代表处，场地伙伴丰合电影院线，线上合作伙伴邵氏KinoLounge，新加坡电影协会的多名成员，包括黄瀞儀、吴欣宜、陈大威、吴劲宪、胡金国及何健緯，还有参与新加坡华语电影节实习计划的两名学生李法慈和白抒玉。
新加坡华语电影节详情:
https://scff.sg