Update!

You know how busy the end of the year gets. Maybe you're behind in your To Do List too? Here are a couple of things I've been meaning to put up but traveling and writing and mince pies got in the way.

In November - The Singapore Writers Festival. Wonderful! I was delighted to have been asked to host sessions featuring the likes of Madeleine Thien, Xinran, Whiti Hereaka, Samanth Subramanian, Elizabeth Pisani, and Kelvin Tan. I also shared the stage in the 'Real to Print' session with Thaddeus Rutkowski and Siow Lee Chin, where we discussed using our own lives in our writing.

Real to Print panel at Singapore Writers Festival

In December - The 48 Hour Film Project. I was invited by the writer/director (also brilliant painter) Leo Poloniecki to join his team, not to help with the writing, but with the acting! In this international project, teams are each given a genre (we got 'Detective/Cop'), and all teams have to include the same three elements in their film. In Singapore's case, it was a character called Mr./Mrs. Anderson, President; the line "Look what you just did, you..."; and a set of barbecue tongs. The writing began at 9:30pm on the Friday night, filming took place on the Saturday, and editing began after that, all finishing at 9:30pm on the Sunday. At the awards ceremony on the following weekend, we learned that we'd won! Our film has now been sent off to join the winning entries from the rest of the world, to be judged at the filmapalooza festival in Atlanta in March. Fingers crossed!

Singapore's winning entry for the 48 Hour Film Project 2015. Written, shot and edited in just 48 hours, this film had to be in the Detective/cop genre; it had to include the line of dialogue "Look at what you just did, you..." as well as a character named Mr or Mrs Anderson, President; and had to include the mandatory prop of a set of BBQ tongs! The film was shot on location at the Pearl's Centre, Singapore. Credits: PRODUCER: IMEE LIM WRITER/DIRECTOR: LEO POLONIECKI CINEMATOGRAPHER/EDITOR: EDWARD CRYER EDITOR: WEI TING ONG LOCATION SOUND ENGINEER: ARNOLD SAN JUAN SOUND DESIGNER: STEVE DANNEMILLER CASTING: ROSE MAO YASHAN PRODUCTION ASSISTANT: SEO LIH YANN COLOURIST: JAY SY TITLES: MARK CLEARY Cast: MRS ANDERSON, PRESIDENT: ALISON JEAN LESTER DETECTIVE LIN: LARRY LOW LOONG WII MRS YANG: KAREN BEE LIN TAN TRANSLATOR: WENDY ZHUO HUI LING ASSOCIATE: JULIE WEE LAWYER: ALEJANDRO CALLIRGOS DAUGHTER: EVA KUNDIN