Filmcamp Singapore 2010

Filmcamp is an ad-hoc unconference, born from the desire to share new ideas in, and learn about, the filmmaking industry in an open environment. If you are interested to learn about film-making and interacting with people who are interested in the area, you should attend this conference. The conference is happening in National Library Board Singapore on 31 Jan 2010, 9 am to 5 pm. If you are interested, please register here for the event.

Being the world’s first independent, grass-root run film unconference. This is not an “unconference for filmmakers”.

This is Filmcamp – an inclusive unconference about anything related to film & filmmaking. Filmmakers and non-filmmakers are invited to attend, share, learn, have fun, and make a lot of noise 🙂

The event also feature the following speakers:

• Bill Grundfest (via US web live cast): is a Golden Globe Award winning writer and producer who has also been nominated for three Emmy Awards. While he has worked in all genres of American network television series and films for the past 17 years, his greatest success has been in comedy, with the series “Mad About You” (which is syndicated around the world). In addition, Bill has written major award shows including the Academy Awards, Emmy Awards and Grammy Awards. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife who claims to love him, two sons, three dogs, two cockatiels, a hen and a rooster.
• Terrence Mason (via US web live cast): Director of Creative Industries at Northeastern University. He’s author of “CG101: A Computer Graphics Industry Reference” (now in its second edition) which received rave reviews from people in the film and animation industry in the US and Japan (www.cg101.com), and a Hollywood veteran with 20+ years of production experience under his belt (www.visualfx.com). Terrence’s work includes feature film (Star Wars, Fantastic Four), interactive (SimCity4) and award-winning short animated films (Bunkie & Booboo). He also single-handedly developed the CG pipeline for SouthPark. Terrence consults with major production studios on creative development and pipeline efficiency, is a member of the Producers Guild of America, the Visual Effects Society and active in SIGGRAPH since 1988, including 2006 Computer Animation Festival Chair and currently as SIGGRAPH 2010 Conference Chair.
• Lian Pek: an award-winning documentary director with a reputation for tackling sensitive, difficult topics with an unflinching yet compassionate eye. In 2004, her debut documentary film, Sayonara Changi, gave the world an unprecedented and exclusive look inside Singapore’s former Changi prison, one of Asia’s most notorious jails during World War Two and the Guantanamo of its time. Tracing the emotional return of now elderly Allied Prisoners of War to their wartime incarceration months before the prison was demolished, the film was lauded for contemporising staid approaches to history documentary-making and commended for its sympathetic but restrained tone. It also won the Best International Documentary prize at the Rome International Film Festival (2007), Best of Discovery Channel Asia (2006) and Finalist prize at the New York Festivals (2007). Lian’s latest directorial effort Mad About English! a documentary feature about China’s mad rush to master the English language ahead of the Olympics became the top grossing Singaporean documentary film of all time in the Singapore cinemas, winning the South East Asian Awards for Best Documentary at the Yogyakarta Film Festival Dokumenter 2008, the Elle Award for Film the Year. Before documentary-making, Lian was one of Asia’s most recognisable news anchors as CNN International’s Anchor and Correspondent. Lian graduated with an M.A. in Theatre Arts from the University of London, Goldsmith’s College and a B.A. (Hons.) in English Literature from the National University of Singapore.

If you are interested to help out, speak, present or support the conference via sponsorship, please contact Chris Gomez via email address subsbase at gmail dot com, talk on twitter: (@chrisgomez).