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'Oscars' to call our own soon

The Singapore Film Awards will honour local talent, raise profile of vibrant industry. -ST

Wed, Nov 19, 2008
AsiaOne

By John Lui

SINGAPORE'S buzzing film industry is getting its own awards to honour talented film-makers, screen writers and actors.

Called the Singapore Film Awards, it is organised by the Singapore International Film Festival (SIFF), and is for feature-length films.

Mr Zhang Wenjie, 34, festival director of the SIFF, said: 'The Singapore film industry has been getting more vibrant in the past few years and feature film productions have increased to an average of 10 or more a year.

 


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