About Us

About Us

History

SGNewWave is the brain­child of a group of film enthu­si­asts from Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s School of Film and Media Studies, hop­ing to rev­o­lu­tion­ize the way Singaporeans view films and even­tu­ally cre­ate a cul­ture of avid film-goers who seek out even the small films show­ing in obscure places around Singapore.

Taking a leaf from the Cahiers du Cinema whose well-informed and com­pre­hen­sive cri­tiques on movies paved the way for the French New Wave; we hope that in the same way, Singapore will also expe­ri­ence its own Nouvelle Vague through shar­ing our under­stand­ing of the lan­guage of cinema.

By expos­ing young Singaporeans to the film scholar’s per­cep­tion of a film, we aspire to open up their minds to the sub­text of a movie and allow them to see how intri­cate movies can be or sim­ply why a movie deserves the acclaim it deserves or why it should belong in the dump.

With SGNewWave, we want to chal­lenge upcom­ing film­mak­ers to break out of the con­ven­tions of cin­ema and cre­ate some­thing dif­fer­ent and rede­fine the local cin­ema. SGNewWave is com­posed of stu­dents with dif­fer­ent capa­bil­i­ties: jour­nal­ism, pub­lic rela­tions, mar­ket­ing, web design and video pro­duc­tions; all of us work­ing together towards our goal of spread­ing the love of cin­ema, and cre­at­ing our own film move­ment.

Contact Us

Encountered any prob­lems with the site? Any feed­back about the site? Suggestions to improve on the site? Want to con­tact the owner of this site?

For more enquiries, please do not hes­i­tate to send us an email at sgnewwave.np@gmail.com or you can call us at 6440 7720.

or you can send us a mail to

SG New Wave
School Of Film and Media stud­ies
Ngee Ann Polytechnic
535 Clementi Road
Singapore 599489

7 Comments

  1. shaun says:
    July 22, 2010 at 2:34 am

    Hi!

    I’m inter­ested to know more about the club. Can one turn up for movie screen­ings with­out being a mem­ber? Is there any min­i­mum atten­dance one must have per month if one becomes a member?

  2. isabelle says:
    July 22, 2010 at 8:56 pm

    Anyone, mem­ber or not, can come to the screen­ings. We will like to see ded­i­ca­tion if you want to be a mem­ber, maybe come to meet­ings once a month?

  3. Ja says:
    September 5, 2010 at 7:18 pm

    Hi! Is this cca open to those not in the sch of FMS?

  4. nosedigger says:
    September 8, 2010 at 12:23 pm

    Yes… if you’d like, the next time we sched­ule a meet­ing I’ll for­ward you the email.

  5. Annabella says:
    December 19, 2010 at 10:55 pm

    Hi,
    are the screen­ings weekly? Is there one this com­ing week — 22 dec?

  6. Marian says:
    February 3, 2011 at 1:12 am

    I would like to draw your atten­tion to a Singaporean made short film called Big Feet which is on the verge of mak­ing it to the final 16 of the World’s biggest short film fes­ti­val Tropfest, which takes place in Sydney on 20th February.

    Big Feet tells the bit­ter­sweet story of a young girl whose love of run­ning is jeop­ar­dised by her ambi­tious father who pushes her to become a winner.

    Tropfest usu­ally selects 16 final­ists, but such is the stan­dard this year, they’ve cre­ated a pub­lic vote for the 16th film.

    A great chance for to put Singapore on cre­ative World stage. To vote for Big Feet visit http://www.youtube.com/tropfest click on the ‘Vote’ tab and give it a big green thumb’s up!

  7. vsiff says:
    February 12, 2011 at 9:43 am

    Hi,

    We are try­ing to arouse aware­ness and enthu­si­asm with art, film, media and/or design peers/practitioners about the Very Short International Film Festival 2011 to be held at Alliance Francaise 6, 7 and 8 May and 80 other cities around the world at the same time!, as well as screen­ings of a local selec­tion at the Singapore Arts Festival in the Festival Village later in May 2011.

    We want pro­fes­sional, ama­teur, and aspir­ing film direc­tors to sub­mit their short films for con­sid­er­a­tion for both the inter­na­tional and local [entries due 10th February], or local only [entries due 15th March 2011] screenings.

    We want a diverse selec­tion of short films to send to Paris to be con­sid­ered for the International Section of VSIFF 2011…. So if you HAND DELIVER your entry to 179 River Valley Road #01–01, we will extend the dead­line date for entries for the inter­na­tional selec­tion process to,

    - MONDAY -
    14th February 2011

    Please assist us and remind your cre­ative com­mu­nity and net­works. Also remem­ber the short films can be past works, there is no limit to when they were made, they just MUST NOT exceed three min­utes. They must have a title and cred­its (not included in the 3 minutes).

    To down­load PR and Registration Details, please go to
    http://www.zomedia.sg/VSIFF/VSIFF.html

    Please don’t hes­i­tate to con­tact us if you have any queries.

    Look for­ward to receiv­ing your short film entry!
    Cheers
    The VSIFF Team!!
    ZoMedia Pte Ltd
    For Very Short International Film Festival
    Made in Singapore Project Managers
    179 River Valley Building #01–01
    River Valley Building S179033
    vsiff@zomedia.com

    Material Deadlines for Submission:
    Local and International Entries: 10th February 2011or hand deliv­ered by 14th February
    This means that if you want your entry to be con­sid­ered by both the inter­na­tional and local selec­tion com­mit­tees, then you must have your entry in by 10th Feb.
    Local Entries Only: 15th March 2011
    This means that if you want your entry to be con­sid­ered by the local selec­tion com­mit­tee only, then you must have your entry in by 15th Mar.

    Screening:
    VSIFF 2011: 6, 7 and 8 May 2011 around the world in 80 cities includ­ing at the Alliance Francaise, Singapore
    ‘I Want to Remember’ spe­cial cat­e­gory: 24 & 31 May 2011 [ten­ta­tive dates] Singapore Arts Festival at Festival Village, Esplanade Park

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