FDW EP13 Talking with Director Wee Li Lin - Part 1 of 2 Film Directors Workshop

Featuring our prolific Filmmaker Wee Li Lin. This was recorded last June when we were coming out of a CB and we may be heading towards a new CB as we speak.It's ironic that it is twelve months apart- nothing has changed much and yet everything did. She has of course done a lot more since but this series serves to a be a time-librarian of filmmakers in flux. Think its highly relevant and always cool to hang out with WLL- Our WW fllmmaker.

00:5:00 intros
00:39 "Such an effort to document and revise your showreel."
01:00 On how LiLin decided to put her showreel in order
01:32 How doing a showreel made her feel 'better about her work'
02:14 "when you put it together then you realise on you can do waht you do"
02:33 Overall Consistency in her body of work
03:46 How she conceive the short film title "Areola Borealis"
04:15 The use of Dialect Cantonese in "Areola Borealis"
05:10 LiLin on her tackling the use of Cantonese even when she is not versed in the dialect
06:31 Indirectly wanting to 'pay homage to her mom' who is Cantonese.
07:27 "Areola Borealis" had more ad-libbing than her previous works
08:49 The ad-Libbing and the delivered dialogue made the work very natural
09:00 On how English 'doesn't seem natural' in our works
09:45 Mentions on "Areola Borealis" writing being tight
10:11 LiLin on whether she directs mostly her own writing or otherwise
12:12 To be hired for one's unique 'Director's Voice'- about 'Directors having free reign over the scripts'
13:00 on Her personal successful relationship with a fellow writer- Jean Tay
15:02 "Keep chipping at the same Block" again on LiLin's on the type of stories, themes , characters and outcomes.
15:40 On being a craftsman in your work
16:00 LiLin on challenging herself to do things that are not in her usual domain
16:53 About being older and pushing herself to try new stuff, genre, characters and themes.
17:25 LiLin's love for her characters.
19:20 Same same but not necessarily different and doing something different for being different sake may not be beneficial
19:28 "Always a sense of fun" in all of LiLin's works
20:03 Always the 'nerdy underdogs' in all of her works
20:31 Where LiLin psycho-anaylsesing that this theme may be form her formative years as a teenager
21:28 Beyond the eye candy pastel visuals and 80's syths, "CP Kids" was a forgotten stigmatised counter culture in SG
21:45 On how "CP Kids" was supposed to be a docudrama but she couldn't find anyone to commission it.
23:50 On her trying to emulate the fashion and style in her school days (CP Kids) totally ‘out there’
25:50 CHIJ uniforms
26:24 Autograph vs My Autograph 2015
27:50 Time-slips and time jumps concepts
28:15 On her prolific shorts filmography-how she keeps it going
30:00 on doing personal passion projects. Thirties was occupied with two feature films and going back to school at Tisch
30:15 in her forties she decided to go back short films and how Nicholas Chee facilitated her going back to her Utter Short "That Loving Feeling"
31:04 on her time stamping her works with her own age
32:56 Talking about Box Office 'success' and the true 'merit' of the film
34:42 Looking for a local audience
35:00 End of Part One.