"Every time I'm here, I constantly think of what I would say to you or tell you..." Another excellent stop-motion animated short film to watch. The Visit is an emotional short made by a Singaporean filmmaker named Morrie Tan, telling the story of her own visits to a prison to meet her father. Month after month, Ting makes a solo trip to visit her father in prison, talking only through a glass panel in his windowless cell. She is determined to not let anything separate him from her and the realities of the world despite having to shoulder her emotional burdens alone. Featuring the voices of Judee Tan and Huang Jia Qiang. It's only 8 minutes and is another fine example of how animation can be used to tell any kind of story. The filmmaker explains that the film is "a story of longing and reconciliation for a family, and a...
- 12/3/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Morrie Tan’s directorial debut, “The Visit 探望” (2021), just began its festival run, but it is already making quite the splash in Singapore. Since its mid-summer premiere abroad, the film has already won the city-state’s National Youth Film Awards (Nyfa) Best Animation Film and Asian Academy Creative Awards’ Best Short Film Content. This is quite an achievement for an animation team so young. In fact, we talked to some of the film’s animation leads — Wong Shi Teng, Gloria Yeo, and Hana Lee — when their film, “Strange Occurrences: Bukit Bulabu” competed in Cartoon Undergrounds’ Student Film Competition. Since then, the team has graduated into the independent studio world of Finding Pictures and Robot Playground. This year, under Morrie Tan’s direction, “The Visit” is in the running for International Competition 2.
“The Visit” will play in Cartoons Underground International Competition 2 from 20-27 November.
Like “Strange Occurrences,” this film is also done in stop-motion.
“The Visit” will play in Cartoons Underground International Competition 2 from 20-27 November.
Like “Strange Occurrences,” this film is also done in stop-motion.
- 11/20/2021
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
The lineups for the Mavericks, Discovery, and Tiff Kids parts of the Toronto Film Festival were announced, wrapping up a series of lineup announcements for the Toronto International Film Festival.
With the added films, the festival’s entire slate is now a whopping 393 movies. Two hundred eighty-five of those movies are feature films, of which 143 are world premieres.
The Mavericks portion of the festival includes onstage discussions following the screening of each film. Do I Sound Gay? will be followed by a talk between director David Thorpe and sex-advice guru Dan Savage. Also premiering in that space is The 50 Year Argument,...
With the added films, the festival’s entire slate is now a whopping 393 movies. Two hundred eighty-five of those movies are feature films, of which 143 are world premieres.
The Mavericks portion of the festival includes onstage discussions following the screening of each film. Do I Sound Gay? will be followed by a talk between director David Thorpe and sex-advice guru Dan Savage. Also premiering in that space is The 50 Year Argument,...
- 8/19/2014
- by Jacob Shamsian
- EW - Inside Movies
Bill Murray is coming to Toronto folks. Actually, the film he stars in (Theodore Melfi’s St. Vincent) is having its official World Premiere launch at the jaw-dropping 285 feature film 2014 Tiff line-up. In the final batch of items we finally get the confirmation that 2014′s Palme d’Or Winner Winter Sleep (which gets added along with a trio of others to the Masters Programme) will show, and Tomm Moore’s highly anticipated Song of the Sea (among the four item line-up for Tiff Kids) also lands. Worth mentioning are the sprinkling of add-ons to the various other sections (Marjane Satrapi’s Sundance preemed The Voices, Matt Shakman’s Cut Bank and the world preem of Danis Tanovic’s Tigers) with a Studio Ghibli docu item being fitted into the Tiff Docs, but it is the Discovery Programme that finally takes shape.
The “up-and-comers” include Berlin Film Fest (and future Nyff...
The “up-and-comers” include Berlin Film Fest (and future Nyff...
- 8/19/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
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