A short documentary about Singapore singing legend Matthew Tan and his number one hit song "Singapore Cowboy". Client: National Library Board. Directed and co-produced by Wee Li Lin. Cinematography by Charles Lim
A public service announcement video to raise awareness on early breast cancer detection. Client: KK Hospital. Directed and co-produced by Wee Li Lin. Cinematography by Charles Lim
An online viral video for Soleil Wheels. Client: Stamford Tyres International Directed by Charles Lim and Wee Li Lin, Cinematography by Charles Lim Music by Alex Oh
Li Lin is known to be the most prolific female short filmmaker in Singapore with 10 short films under her belt. Most of them award winners. In 2005, Li Lin's short film AUTOGRAPH BOOK was the first ever Singapore film selected for the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival in New York. In 2011, Li Lin received the honorary award from the Singapore Short Film Awards for her outstanding contribution to the Singapore short film scene. A graduate of Brown University with a BA in Art Semiotics (class of '96), Li Lin recently completed her MFA in Dramatic Writing at Tisch Asia (class of 2012) on a Media Education Scheme Scholarship. Li Lin has made two feature films, the critically acclaimed GONE SHOPPING in 2007 which was partially funded by the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board and the well received FOREVER in 2011 which was funded by the Singapore Media Development Authority's (MDA) New Feature Film Fund and supported by Iceberg Design. She is developing her third feature film project SINGAPORE COWBOY which received a MDA script development fund in early 2012. On the side, Li Lin is also an educator who teaches film related subjects at tertiary institutions in Singapore.
"Singapore is one big shopping center!" blurts a character in Wee Li Lin's quietly ironic feature debut, which goes to the empty heart of the Lion State's culture more effectively than many artier pics repping the island on the fest circuit.
Derek Elley's VARIETY review of GONE SHOPPING
Charles Lim Yi Yong was a former professional sailor who competed in the 1996 Olympics representing Singapore and in the 2007 America's Cup representing Team China. In between all this, Charles graduated from Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design with a First Class honors BA in Fine Art (Class of 2001). Immediately after school, Charles went on to found a net collective art group called TSUNAMII.NET which exhibited in the prestigious art show Documenta11. Combing his knowledge of the sea and love for making images, he embarked on the SEA STATE series body of artwork, which went on to exhibit round the world at Manifesta7, the Shanghai Biennale and most recently the 2011 Singapore Biennale. Of late, these efforts have been translated to the moving image and cinema. Charles's 2010 short film ONE DAY I FORGOT AND USED MY HANDS was screened at the Rotterdam international Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival and the Edinburgh Film Festival. His 2011 short film, ALL THE LINES FLOW OUT, premiered at the 68th Venice Film Festival that same year and won a SPECIAL MENTION Award, making him the first Singaporean to ever win an award at the world renowned festival. It has since gone on to win three more awards at other international film festivals.
"Charles Lim Yi Yong's striking cinematography maps the water passages of the contemporary city, creating an abstract mystery appropriate to an era of hyper-mobility, virtual networks and ecological crisis."
Venice Film Festival Jury on ALL THE LINES FLOW OUT
Sunny is a successful real estate man with a devoted wife (Marli) and a banker daughter (Sue) who's about to marry well. But lately Sunny's been seeing things: horses, cowboys and postcards from Nashville. At Sue's engagement party, an old video featuring Sunny as a youthful singing cowboy accidentally plays to the unsuspecting crowd. Everyone laughs and claps, except Marli and Sue, who are embarrassed, but Sunny smiles - he used to be a hot performer and could have made history as the first Asian Country star. Sunny goes to look for his old band, but it was a bad break up and a brawl breaks out between them and Sunny falls to the ground unconscious and convulsing. At the hospital, the doctor reveals that Sunny has suffered a ruptured aneurysm and is in a coma. His family is devastated. But Sunny makes a quick recovery and he soon awakens and seems normal, until he opens his mouth and speaks like an American cowboy. Worse, he's disorientated about where he is at present and who he is at present. All he knows is that he feels like singing and Nashville is a calling.
explores man's power struggle with nature. The work begins in the storm drains of Singapore, whose scale shows man's attempts at containment and control, but the decay caused by the tropical climate hints at the essential impossibility of controlling nature. Ultimately, the viewer is swept out into the ocean and confronts water as pure force, without thought or conscience.
(2011)is about a young woman, Joey, who's so in love with the idea of being a bride that she gets a job as a video consultant at the Wedding Education Department (W.E.D). There, Joey shares the art of getting and marrying a man through her romantic "faux" wedding videos. But the idea of fantasy and reality are blurred as Joey falls madly in love with Gin, a handsome music teacher who acts with her in a video.
showcases a wealthy 'tai tai', an eight year old latchkey kid and an angst-y young man who make the shopping centers of Singapore their lifeline. Together, they lead audiences through a journey of love, loss and lunacy through the heart of Singapore where they find that their dreams can be bought and broken.