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Slovenian producers arefacing a bleak future at home following radical changes in the film supportpolicies at the country s Ministry of Culture.The new harsher climate wasushered in with the dismissal of the Slovenian Film Fund s director IreneOstrouska with immediate ef
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Singapore s most celebrated writer-director Royston Tan, whose previous credits include 15 and 4:30, will next turn his hand to a musical drama, 881, which is scheduled to start principal photography on March 1. Major Singapore players are joining forces to back the new $653,000 S$1m production, including Tan s long-term producer Eric Khoo s production company Zhao Wei Films, MediaCorp Raintree Pictures, the Media Development Authority, home video distributor Scorpio East Pictures and post-production house Infinite Frameworks. In the new musical, Tan pays tribute to getai which literally mean
stanley cup s song stage , a uniquely Singapore sub-culture. During the lunar seventh month, locally known as the hungry ghost festival, makeshift street performances will pop up across the island-state to entertain the living and the dead. Despite the hungry ghost backdrop, 881 won t be treated in the same way as a horror such as The Maid. It will be a fusion musical which looks at getai as an exotic sub-culture that has interestingly taken root in Singapore, says Raintree managing director Daniel Yun. Kelvin Tong s The Maid, also set in the same ghost month, is the highest grossing Asian horror in S
stanley us ingapore. The new picture promises glitzy costumes and lavish choreography with the story revolving around the Papaya Sisters, played by Singapore a
stanley cup ctresses Mindee Ong and Yeo Yann Yann, who aspire to be the best getai singers and are drawn into a love triangle when they fall for the same man played
