Ken Kwek is an award-winning screenwriter, director and playwright from Singapore. His anthology of short films “Sex. Violence. Family Values” (2013) was banned in Singapore but won awards internationally. His feature debut “Unlucky Plaza” (2014) premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Ken Kwek is also a theatre director and author of several bestselling children's books. “#LookAtMe” is his second feature film.
On the occassion of #LookAtMe screening at Fica Vesoul, where it picked up two awards, the Young Jury Prize and Audience Choice Award, and during an interview that begun and continued as a conversation in a cafe, we speak about the characters in the movie, the reasons behind its ban, the laws regarding homosexuality in Singapore, yao, televangelists, and many other topics.
Your film centers on a pair of twins – one straight, one gay – brought up by a single mother. Why did you choose not to have a father in the story?...
On the occassion of #LookAtMe screening at Fica Vesoul, where it picked up two awards, the Young Jury Prize and Audience Choice Award, and during an interview that begun and continued as a conversation in a cafe, we speak about the characters in the movie, the reasons behind its ban, the laws regarding homosexuality in Singapore, yao, televangelists, and many other topics.
Your film centers on a pair of twins – one straight, one gay – brought up by a single mother. Why did you choose not to have a father in the story?...
- 3/11/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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