RESIDENCY ACTIVITIES IN MARCH

To register for workshops or screenings, please email info@objectifs.com.sg

1) Film Screening: Classic Cult Horror Special
The Spider Will Kill You/ Tourist Trap (1979) (Films by David Schmoeller)
Date: 1 March 2007, Thur
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Singapore Art Museum, Glass Museum, 71 Bras Basah Road
Admission is free by registration. To register, please email info@objectifs.com.sg or call 6339 3068.
Nominated for a Student Academy Award, “The Spider Will Kill You” (1974) was later made into the feature film “Tourist Trap”, which was made in 24 days and has since had a cult following and has devoted websites still talking about it.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with the director.

Tourist Trap Synopsis:
An eerie and deserted wax museum, Slauson’s Lost Oasis, is the site for spine-tingling terror where four unsuspecting young travelers are lured into a very deadly "Tourist Trap." Slauson is the reclusive and bizarre owner of the attraction, which is actually more like a macabre chamber of horrors. The grotesque and frightening mannequins in this sordid side-show are only the beginning of the murderous mayhem and nightmarish madness to come. Starring Chuck Connors and Jocelyn Jones.


2) Workshop: Staging for Camera
Date: 3 March 2007, Saturday
Time: 1.00-5.00pm
Venue: Objectifs
Instructor: David Schmoeller
This hands-on workshop teaches directing concepts and practical skills that will enhance a young director's craft. Topics include the psychology of camera placement (the psychology of the shot) / basic coverage versus stylized shooting / cheating for camera / matching problems & solutions / how to look at dailies & spot problems. The instructor will show the complete dailies of some of his movies and talk about both the completed and edited scenes to further explain the process of shooting, the shooting order, and then how it all cuts together.

3) Talk: Styling, Make-up and Wardrobe for Films
Date: 6 March 2007, Tuesday
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Objectifs
Instructor: Victric Thng
Admission is free by registration. To register, please email info@objectifs.com.sg or call 6339 3068.
Victric Thng invites guest speakers from the industry to share their expertise on styling, make-up and wardrobe for films and how the right approach can enhance the story. Samples of work will be shown by industry practitioners. Guests will bring samples of work they have done for other films.

4) Scriptwriting Workshop
Date: 10 March 2007, Saturday
1 session x 4 hr
Time: 1.00-5.00pm
Venue: Objectifs
Instructor: David Schmoeller
An intensive scriptwriting workshop where students will learn exercises and writing skills to help them move from the short film genre to feature film. The instructor will draw examples from indie films such as “Nepoleon Dynamite” which started out as the short film “Peluca”. The workshop will cover story structure, have writing exercises and provide reference scripts, and round off with the topics of copyright and festivals.

5) Film Screening: Puppetmaster (1989), Directed by David Schmoeller
Date: 13 March 2007, Tuesday
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Singapore Art Museum, Glass Museum, 71 Bras Basah Road
Admission is free by registration. To register, please email info@objectifs.com.sg or call 6339 3068.
Celebrated cult horror writer/director David Schmoeller’s “Puppetmaster” became a big hit on the video market after its modest but noticeable theatrical release.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with the director.

Synopsis:
A group of people are called to Bodega Bay Inn by their old friend Neil Gallagher, only to learn once they arrive that he is dead. All happen to be psychics who were befriended by Neil who was trying to find Ancient Egyptian techniques of imbuing objects with life. But then a handful of animated toys created by the legendary toymaker Andre Toulon, all with various lethal novelty attachments built into their bodies, slip out of Neil's coffin and start killing the guests. Starring Paul Le Matt


6) Film screening: The Grace Lee Project (2005) Directed by Grace Lee
Date: 21 March, Wed
1 session x 2 hr
Time: 7.30pm-9.30pm
Venue: Singapore Art Museum, Glass Hall, 71 Bras Basah Road
The screening is followed by a Q&A with the Director.
Admission is free by registration. To register, please email info@objectifs.com.sg or call 6339 3068.
Filmmaker Grace Lee won a Student Academy Award for her short film “Barrier Device” which starred Sandra Oh (of “Grey’s Anatomy” fame). In 2005, she made a feature documentary called “The Grace Lee Project” which went on to win the Rockerfeller Foundation Media Arts Grant, Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in Digital Media and the Emerging Director Award at the Asian American International Film Festival. This will be the first time these two films are shown together in Singapore.

The Grace Lee Project Synopsis:
When award-winning Korean-American filmmaker Grace Lee was growing up in Missouri, she was the only Grace Lee she knew. In New York and California, however, everyone she met seemed to know “another Grace Lee”. But why did they assume that all Grace Lees were reserved, dutiful, piano playing bookworms? The filmmaker plunges into a clever, highly unscientific investigation into all those Grace Lees who break the mold – from a fiery social activist to a rebel who tried to burn down her high school! With wit and charm, this film puts a hilarious spin on the eternal question “what’s in a name?”

Reviews:
“Funny and offbeat. Told with humour and insight.” – Los Angeles Times
“Delightful! A funny but complex meditation on identity, ethnicity and cultural expectations.” – Variety

7) Documentary Filmmaking Workshop
Date: 31 March, Saturday
1 session x 4 hr
Time: 1-5pm
Venue: Objectifs
Instructor: Grace Lee
This intensive workshop will explore in detail documentary filmmaking topics to enhance a
filmmaker's development in this growing genre of filmmaking.