Bye 2011; Welcome 2012 =)

Bye 2011; Welcome 2012.
New hopes, new beginnings.
Happy New Year to you!  =)

Congratulations to All Winners for silentSHOUT Short Film Competition 2011!

Winners for silentSHOUT Short Film Competition 2011:

Best Short Film
Bisikan Tangan - Dir. Nethaneal Siegfred Enson

Best Story
LipRead - Dir. Anne Laura Raymond

Best Cinematography
Pelita Hati - Dir. Farid Mahmud

Best Effort
Deaf Capoeira - Dir. Akira Chua & Yong Siew Ling

Audience Choice Award
Bisikan Tangan - Dir. Nethaneal Siegfred Enson

Congratulations to all the winners! / Tahniah kepada semua pemenang anugerah! / 恭喜所有得奖者！

Josephine at Forum: A Sneak Preview

Here's a sneak preview of forum @ silentSHOUT Short Film Festival 2011.
Josephine at Forum: A Sneak Preview

Transcription:

Josephine (actress):
(voiced by Lucy Lim)

 “The other challenge that I felt was how to translate English sentences into Sign Language. Again like I said, we didn’t want it to be in verbatim and we have a deaf linguist, Koon Wei and she was there to help me to translate many of the sentences so that it makes sense in sign language, and then we taught Walter, a FOD (friend of deaf) guy  - the main actor, and then we had a couple of full rehearsals, we had discussion, and we tried different emotions we want to be using in the film; sad, anger…...There were several attempts, but we always be positive, we enjoyed working with Margaret. And asking me to cry was very difficult; how do I become angry, how do I really throw out my emotion, I just cannot. The tears just run out, so I wondered what should I do and then that time I was lucky because,  at that time when we were filming, somebody was smoking away the Aedes environment, then I have these tears in my eyes, I was so natural and I am so happy. And I knew the crew were laughing when it happened. That was a very good experience for us and after that it went well." 

Margaret (director):

 “Something to add here, actually it was a surprise shot. When we rolled the camera, before I rolled the camera, that's my first shoot, I told Josephine "don’t blink your eyes", so she opened her eyes wide and big! And that time the government department came at the area, had this Aedes spray, so there was smoke get in the house. Well it was supposed to 'cut'! But I realized there's tears coming out (from Josephine), so I said "roll  the camera, don't stop, roll! roll! roll! for few seconds, and we got the shot and used it for the film. And actually it was a surprise during the production. Thank you Josephine.”

*eyefinger is a story about a deaf woman who experiences post emotional after son's death. To view the film, click: eyefinger

Less than 24 hours.ARE U READY???

Banner up, tickets finish, less than 24 hours.ARE U READY???

Banner telah digantung, tiket habis dijual, kurang daripada 24 jam. ANDA BERSEDIA???

布条挂上，入门票售完，少过24小时。你准备好了吗？？？

Invited to FINAS Documentary Festival Awards Night (11.12.2011)

Last Sunday, silentSHOUT was invited to FINAS Documentary Festival Awards Night.

Ahad lepas, silentHSOUT dijemput ke Malam Anugerah Festival Dokumentari FINAS.

上个星期日，静响受邀出席FINAS举办的纪录片电影节颁奖典礼。