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Statement by civil society on MDA’s decision to ban local film, “To Singapore, with love”
September 10 2014 21:10
On 10th September 2014, Media Development Authority (MDA) announced that it has classified a local film, “To Singapore, With Love” by Singaporean film maker, Tan Pin Pin, as Not Allowed for All Ratings (NAR).
The statutory board said that it has assessed that the contents of the film undermine national security because legitimate actions of the security agencies to protect the national security and stability of Singapore are presented in a distorted way as acts that victimised innocent individuals and said that under the Film Classification Guidelines, films that are assessed to undermine national security will be given an NAR rating.
A group of individuals have come together to pen a statement in response to MDA’s banning of the film, stating that the censorship of the film does nothing to promote a vibrant, informed society and urge MDA to reconsider its decision.
Statement on the MDA’s decision to ban Tan Pin Pin’s “To Singapore, With Love”
We, the undersigned would like to express our deep disappointment at the Media Development Authority’s decision to ban Tan Pin Pin’s award winning documentary, ‘To Singapore With Love’.
Ms Tan’s film examines the lives of Singaporeans living in exile. In doing so, she explores an aspect of our nation’s history that is rarely discussed in the public sphere.
The MDA claims that the subjects in Ms Tan’s film gave “distorted and untruthful accounts of how they came to leave Singapore and remain outside Singapore”. We would like to suggest that rather than banning the documentary, authorities release their version of the events in question, so that viewers can make up their own minds. Indeed, we note that the MDA has already published a detailed press release stating their official account.
‘To Singapore With Love’ screened at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival and has won multiple awards all over the world. It has received high praise from filmmakers, critics and festival programmers. Many commentators have described it as essential viewing for all Singaporeans. Banning the film will only reinforce the view that our government is trying to limit discussion around our very own history.
Finally, we would like to emphasize that censorship does nothing to promote a vibrant, informed society. We thus urge the MDA to reconsider its decision.
Festivals, Awards and Accolades
- Freedom Film Festival, 4-city Malaysian Tour. Petaling Jeya, Johor Baru, Kuantan and Penang
- 64th Berlinale, Forum
- Winner, Best Director, Muhr AsiaAfria Documentary Awards. Dubai International Film Festival
- Winner, Best Asean Documentary, Special Mention, Salaya International Documentary Festival
- Winner, Asian Cinema Fund, Busan International Film Festival
- Art of the Real, Film Society of Lincoln Center, USA, 23 & 24 April
- Seoul International Documentary Festival, 12 & 15 April
- In Competition, Its All True, Brazil, 7-10 April
- Busan Asian Cinema Fund Seoul Screenings at Indieplus
- Jogja-Netpac Film Festival
- International Documentary Film Festival, Kerala
- Diaspora Film Festival, Incheon
- In Competition, World Premiere, Busan International Film Festival
“Expertly crafted, enormously moving” – Film Society, Lincoln Center
“The only Singaporean film that truly deserves to be called a “must see”. A brave, intelligent, sensitive, heartbreaking and humbling work that left my head spinning” – Colin Goh
“All of Tan Pin Pin’s previous work has been moving towards this courageous point.” –Tony Rayns, Head, Jury, Dubai International Film Festival
“This moved me to tears. Every young Singaporean of my generation should see this, in fact all Singaporeans should see this. It’s a slice of our history that shouldn’t be forgotten, and hopefully properly acknowledged in the near future.” – Anthony Chen
“The most important Singaporean film I have ever seen.” – Woo Yen Yen
“Tender and searching, deserves to be watched by the largest Singaporean audience possible, and more than once.” – Chan Cheow-Thia
“”To Singapore, With Love” is a necessary film. That it is very well made is a bonus. Extremely moving and thought-provoking.” – Koh Jee Leong
“Stylistically concise, with so much heart.” – Kirsten Tan
“A moving, heartbreaking work on unrequited love for one’s country” – Traslin Ong
“A very delicate and intimate gaze into the lives of Singaporean political exiles and their families.” – Paolo Bertolin, Venice International Film Festival delegate
“If you feel touched, it may be because of the production’s impressive ability to weave sentiment from small details, food, poetry, songs, and photos.” – Cine21 (Korean cinema magazine)
List of Signatories:
Anthony Chen Audrey Wong Pam Oei Boo Junfeng Alvin Tan Thum Ping Tjin Ivan Heng Sun Koh Martyn See Janice Koh Jasmine Ng Joshua Chiang Royston Tan K. Rajagopal Han Yew Kwang Lynn Lee Kirsten Han Lau Chee Nien Ong Keng Sen Kenneth Lee Noor Effendy Ibrahim Tay Tong Wee Li Lin Wahyuni Hadi Charles Lim Chai Yeewei Lim Jialiang Zhang Wenjie Lee Xian Jie Damien Chng Kuo Jian Hong Jeremy Boo Eva Tang T. Sasitharan Shelley Thio Kelvin Tong Tan Tarn How Ken Kwek Terry Xu Andrew Low Priscilla Chia
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Telling It Like It Is
September 12th, 2014 | Author: Contributions
Just like the National Library prefers to pulp books instead of burning them, the Media Development Authority (MDA) chose to slap a NAR rating (Not Allowed for All Ratings) instead of an outright ban on the award winning film “To Singapore, With Love”. Producer Tan Pin Pin won international accolades for her effort, including Best Director at the Muhr AsiaAfrica Documentary Awards at the Dubai Film Festival 2013, and put our budding film industry in the limelight. In 2007, “Zahari’s 17 Years” was actually banned by the government, but that caused such a stink that MDA must have learnt its bitter lesson about showcasing draconian methodologies.
When MDA declared that its contents “undermined national security”, there was a glimpse of hope we may finally get to see how Mas Selamat climbed out a toilet window, giving future detainees a sneak preview of how to exit a supposedly secure detention facility with the greatest of ease. Nope, they objected to “untruthful accounts of how they came to leave Singapore”. They meaning exiles who had to flee for their personal safety, like Tan Wah Piow who was let out of the prison gates only to be thrown straight into the clutches of the armoured division. The Singapore armed forces that we know doesn’t exactly have a pristine safety record. Young lives are crushed under “parked” military vehicles, limbs severed in naval exercises, asthmatics snuffed out by smoke grenades, etc, etc.
The except from Berlinale (Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin) starts like this:
There must be more truth in that paragraph than the storyline that required 62 script revisions for the upcoming “1965″ propaganda movie that will cost taxpayers $2.8 million. They must have had lots of problems with the part about collaborating with the Japanese occupiers when Singapore was Syonanto.
MDA is insisting the movie is wrong, that former CPM members “can return if they agree to be interviewed by the authorities on their past activities to resolve their cases”. Even if they were never card carrying members of the Communist Party of Malaysia? Chia Thye Poh was never a member of the CPM. He lost the best years of his life just because one man said so. And that’s the hard truth.
Tattler
* The writer blogs at http://singaporedesk.blogspot.com
A conversation with Tan Wah Piow Part I
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A conversation with Tan Wah Piow. Part II
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Telling It Like It Is
September 12th, 2014 | Author: Contributions
Just like the National Library prefers to pulp books instead of burning them, the Media Development Authority (MDA) chose to slap a NAR rating (Not Allowed for All Ratings) instead of an outright ban on the award winning film “To Singapore, With Love”. Producer Tan Pin Pin won international accolades for her effort, including Best Director at the Muhr AsiaAfrica Documentary Awards at the Dubai Film Festival 2013, and put our budding film industry in the limelight. In 2007, “Zahari’s 17 Years” was actually banned by the government, but that caused such a stink that MDA must have learnt its bitter lesson about showcasing draconian methodologies.
When MDA declared that its contents “undermined national security”, there was a glimpse of hope we may finally get to see how Mas Selamat climbed out a toilet window, giving future detainees a sneak preview of how to exit a supposedly secure detention facility with the greatest of ease. Nope, they objected to “untruthful accounts of how they came to leave Singapore”. They meaning exiles who had to flee for their personal safety, like Tan Wah Piow who was let out of the prison gates only to be thrown straight into the clutches of the armoured division. The Singapore armed forces that we know doesn’t exactly have a pristine safety record. Young lives are crushed under “parked” military vehicles, limbs severed in naval exercises, asthmatics snuffed out by smoke grenades, etc, etc.
The except from Berlinale (Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin) starts like this:
“Some places are better observed from a distance if you want to grasp their inner essence. For this portrait of her hometown, the tropical economic powerhouse of Singapore, Tan Pin Pin decided on a strictly external perspective. She meets with political exiles in London, Thailand, and Malaysia who had to leave the city thirty-five or fifty years ago – and who are to this day not permitted to return unless they die and their relatives bring back their ashes. The protagonists of the film fought for increased democracy and for Singapore to be freed from colonialism.”
There must be more truth in that paragraph than the storyline that required 62 script revisions for the upcoming “1965″ propaganda movie that will cost taxpayers $2.8 million. They must have had lots of problems with the part about collaborating with the Japanese occupiers when Singapore was Syonanto.
MDA is insisting the movie is wrong, that former CPM members “can return if they agree to be interviewed by the authorities on their past activities to resolve their cases”. Even if they were never card carrying members of the Communist Party of Malaysia? Chia Thye Poh was never a member of the CPM. He lost the best years of his life just because one man said so. And that’s the hard truth.
Tattler
* The writer blogs at http://singaporedesk.blogspot.com
End Of Article
A conversation with Tan Wah Piow Part I
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A conversation with Tan Wah Piow. Part II
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Source: Martyn See Facebook Page
DID YOU KNOW?
TAN WAH PIOW & DPM THARMAN SHANMUGARATNAM
DPM Tharman Shanmugaratnam, in his days as a student at the LSE, would visit the home of exiled dissident Tan Wah Piow to engage in an 'underground study group', along with other Singaporean students residing in UK at that time (including NSP's Yip Yew Weng). Upon Tharman's return to Singapore during the early 80s, he was immediately hauled up by the ISD for a series of interrogations, but no arrests were made at the time. However, some of the other members of the 'study group' were eventually arrested and detained in 1987's 'Marxist conspiracy'. It is not known if Mr Shanmugaratnam was questioned again in 1987.
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Excerpts from SINGAPORE : THE UNEXPECTED NATION
http://books.google.com.sg/books?id...sc=y#v=onepage&q=tharman tan wah piow&f=false
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TANG FONG HAR
"She singled out Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam who was associated with some of the 1987 detainees. Tharman was also brought in for questioning by the ISD but was not detained. Mr Tharman should know whether his contemporaries were Marxist conspirators or not. "Tharman was almost a victim of the ISA himself. He should have the courage to do the right thing," said Ms Tang."
https://www.facebook.com/theonlinecitizen/posts/278455945508143
THARMAN CANNOT REMAIN SILENT
http://yoursdp.org/news/tharman_cannot_remain_silent/2011-10-10-2560
ENDING THE POLITICS OF DOMINANCE by TAN WAH PIOW
http://therealsingapore.com/content/ending-politics-dominance
DID YOU KNOW?
TAN WAH PIOW & DPM THARMAN SHANMUGARATNAM
DPM Tharman Shanmugaratnam, in his days as a student at the LSE, would visit the home of exiled dissident Tan Wah Piow to engage in an 'underground study group', along with other Singaporean students residing in UK at that time (including NSP's Yip Yew Weng). Upon Tharman's return to Singapore during the early 80s, he was immediately hauled up by the ISD for a series of interrogations, but no arrests were made at the time. However, some of the other members of the 'study group' were eventually arrested and detained in 1987's 'Marxist conspiracy'. It is not known if Mr Shanmugaratnam was questioned again in 1987.
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Excerpts from SINGAPORE : THE UNEXPECTED NATION
http://books.google.com.sg/books?id...sc=y#v=onepage&q=tharman tan wah piow&f=false
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TANG FONG HAR
"She singled out Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam who was associated with some of the 1987 detainees. Tharman was also brought in for questioning by the ISD but was not detained. Mr Tharman should know whether his contemporaries were Marxist conspirators or not. "Tharman was almost a victim of the ISA himself. He should have the courage to do the right thing," said Ms Tang."
https://www.facebook.com/theonlinecitizen/posts/278455945508143
THARMAN CANNOT REMAIN SILENT
http://yoursdp.org/news/tharman_cannot_remain_silent/2011-10-10-2560
ENDING THE POLITICS OF DOMINANCE by TAN WAH PIOW
http://therealsingapore.com/content/ending-politics-dominance
End Of Article
Afrikanners are ang mohs from south africa they mostly speak afrikaans which is derived from dutch.
Charlize theron is an afrikaneer.
[Update: International Community School has released a statement at 12 September 2014 1:01 PM:
ICS has been informed that an individual has made a statement on social media that is negative and hurtful. These comments in no way represent the ideas, beliefs, or values of International Community School. We as a school do not condone the statement or the attitude it reflects. - The Administration Team ]
Dear All Singapore Stuff,
on 11 Sep 2014, Bailey De Villiers (a common French and Afrikaans surname), a foreign student from International Community School (ICS) insulted the local Singaporean community by calling us "low class dogs" and likens us to "horrible creatures" as a result of "a special amount of imbreading" [sic].
De Villiers' vileness and hatred towards Singaporeans, is the same disdain that the Afrikaners had against the local black inhabitants in South Africa during apartheid (1948 to 1991). This clearly contradicts ICS's values of "Demonstrating cultural sensitivity, Developing a Godly self-image, Living productively". Is this resentment rampant in ICS and other international schools such as SAS, UWCSEA, ISS, AISS, etc?
Having the opportunity to be living, studying and working in Singapore is a privilege that an increasing number of arrogant foreigners (PRs, work permit/study permit holders) are taking for
granted and are mocking the locals and government with contempt. The local Singapore authorities, and school boards must ensure that such indoctrination is stamped to prevent Singapore's own 'apartheid', where the Afrikaner minority rule (White South African) curtailed the rights, associations, and movements of the majority local inhabitants for over 40 years.
Nelson M.
A Disgusted Singaporean
Note: Singaporeans may raise your concerns at https://www.facebook.com/International.Community.School.Singapore
International Community School (Singapore)
27A Jubilee Road, Singapore 128575
Tel: +65 6776 7435
Fax: +65 6776 7436
Email: [email protected]
"God the English from these low class dogs is appalling. It really takes a special amount of imbreading to produce such horrible creatures. I completely agree with you Lily. This country's population doesn't know anything but what the media teaches it, it's a sad, spineless place and would be no less than happy to tell them so in their fucking faces. Glad to see some people share the resentment I do with this god forsaken uneducated population." - Bailey De Villiers (11 Sep 2014)
- More at AllSingaporeStuff.com http://www.allsingaporestuff.com/ar...ional-school-says-sporeans-are-low-class-dogs
FB: http://fb.com/AllSingaporeStuff
- See more at: http://www.allsingaporestuff.com/ar...reans-are-low-class-dogs#sthash.dbEowFY6.dpuf[/QUOTE]
Charlize theron is an afrikaneer.
FOREIGN STUDENT FROM INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL SAYS S'POREANS ARE "LOW-CLASS DOGS"
Published by farhan on Fri, 12 Sep 2014 03:59:23 PM
Published by farhan on Fri, 12 Sep 2014 03:59:23 PM
[Update: International Community School has released a statement at 12 September 2014 1:01 PM:
ICS has been informed that an individual has made a statement on social media that is negative and hurtful. These comments in no way represent the ideas, beliefs, or values of International Community School. We as a school do not condone the statement or the attitude it reflects. - The Administration Team ]
Dear All Singapore Stuff,
on 11 Sep 2014, Bailey De Villiers (a common French and Afrikaans surname), a foreign student from International Community School (ICS) insulted the local Singaporean community by calling us "low class dogs" and likens us to "horrible creatures" as a result of "a special amount of imbreading" [sic].
De Villiers' vileness and hatred towards Singaporeans, is the same disdain that the Afrikaners had against the local black inhabitants in South Africa during apartheid (1948 to 1991). This clearly contradicts ICS's values of "Demonstrating cultural sensitivity, Developing a Godly self-image, Living productively". Is this resentment rampant in ICS and other international schools such as SAS, UWCSEA, ISS, AISS, etc?
Having the opportunity to be living, studying and working in Singapore is a privilege that an increasing number of arrogant foreigners (PRs, work permit/study permit holders) are taking for
granted and are mocking the locals and government with contempt. The local Singapore authorities, and school boards must ensure that such indoctrination is stamped to prevent Singapore's own 'apartheid', where the Afrikaner minority rule (White South African) curtailed the rights, associations, and movements of the majority local inhabitants for over 40 years.
Nelson M.
A Disgusted Singaporean
Note: Singaporeans may raise your concerns at https://www.facebook.com/International.Community.School.Singapore
International Community School (Singapore)
27A Jubilee Road, Singapore 128575
Tel: +65 6776 7435
Fax: +65 6776 7436
Email: [email protected]
"God the English from these low class dogs is appalling. It really takes a special amount of imbreading to produce such horrible creatures. I completely agree with you Lily. This country's population doesn't know anything but what the media teaches it, it's a sad, spineless place and would be no less than happy to tell them so in their fucking faces. Glad to see some people share the resentment I do with this god forsaken uneducated population." - Bailey De Villiers (11 Sep 2014)
- More at AllSingaporeStuff.com http://www.allsingaporestuff.com/ar...ional-school-says-sporeans-are-low-class-dogs
FB: http://fb.com/AllSingaporeStuff
- See more at: http://www.allsingaporestuff.com/ar...reans-are-low-class-dogs#sthash.dbEowFY6.dpuf[/QUOTE]
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