caps-news: Colin Goh and Yen Yen Woo coming to Cinema Pacific this week

[Richard Herskowitz]

Cinema Pacific is just two days away! Be sure to check out our events with filmmakers Colin Goh and Yen Yen Woo as part of Cinema Pacific 2013's Focus: Singapore.
 
 

 
Colin Goh and Yen Yen Woo are a husband-and-wife team with a remarkably eclectic slate of productions. They have released two feature films, including Singapore Dreaming (screening in this festival) and the new graphic novel and interactive bilingual iPad app Dim Sum Warriors. Together with their daughter, they divide their time between Singapore and New York.
Singlish: An Authentic or Broken Voice?
The Jeremiah Lecture Series, cosponsored by Center 
for Asian and Pacific Studies
An illustrated lecture by Colin Goh and Yen Yen Woo
Friday, April 19, 3:30 p.m. Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Lecture Room Free
 
In under four decades, the tiny city-state of Singapore has progressed beyond the "third world" to become one of the world's richest nations. Among the policies given credit for its economic success are language campaigns that, in an effort to connect Singaporeans linguistically with other populations (especially those of powerful nations), urge them to speak Mandarin Chinese instead of other Chinese dialects, and to speak "Good English" instead of Singaporean English, or "Singlish."
 
Drawing from their personal experiences, Singaporean filmmakers Colin Goh and Yen Yen Woo discuss how Singapore's language policies affect freedom of expression, the creative process, and social life. They will illustrate their presentation with clips from their feature film, TalkingCock: The Movie. This film grew out of a satirical website, TalkingCock.com, launched in 2000, that was designed in part to counter the proscriptions and denigrations of Singlish by Singapore's political leaders. Cosponsored with East Asian Languages and Literatures, Department of Linguistics, and Asian Studies Program.
Dim Sum Warriors

With Colin Goh and Yen Yen Woo
Saturday, April 20, 1:00 p.m.  
Eugene Public Library  FREE
 
Yen Yen Woo and Colin Goh will discuss, project, and perform stories from their comic book iPad app, Dim Sum Warriors. Dim Sum Warriors is an all-ages, crazy martial arts adventure comedy about kung-fu fighting Chinese snacks. Growing up in Singapore, Woo and Goh's families had two weekend rituals in common: going for a dim sum brunch, and then watching kung fu movies. Kung fu fighting dumplings were thus their inevitable creative offspring. This event is open to all ages, and kids are especially encouraged to come! Cosponsored with Comics Studies Program.
Singapore Dreaming

With guest directors Colin Goh and Yen Yen Woo
Saturday, April 20, 4:00 p.m.
Bijou Art Cinemas
Tickets: $6 all 
 
In 2006, Yen Yen Woo and Colin Goh wrote, directed, and produced Singapore  Dreaming, their second feature, which played at numerous film festivals worldwide and also won some prestigious awards.
 
Heavily in debt, patriarch Loh Poh Huat can't help but feel bitter irony whenever he has to perform his job as a lawyer's clerk. At the end of his career and frustrated by the gulf between his middle class dreams and his working class reality, he takes his feelings of failure and envy out on his family. So when Poh Huat suddenly wins two million dollars in the lottery, the Lohs start believing that maybe this windfall will deliver them from their struggles. This event is cosponsored with Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, Asian Studies, and East Asian Languages and Literatures.
 
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