Directed by: Melinda Tan
Produced by: Melinda Tan

Synopsis:
What is the definition of normality?

Two young kidney patients go on a quest to challenge society's perception of them. In the process, they discover their own ability to redefine what being normal is all about.

• Selected for screening at The Best of First Takes 2008
• Voted as audience favourite at First Takes for the month of October
• Selected for screening as part of First Takes at The Substation
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Directed by: Derek Tan & Mike Lim
Produced by: Derek Tan

Synopsis:
They say Time is God's way of preventing everything from happening at once. Alwyn wakes up one morning to find his wife, Caryl missing. Four film buffs' poignant take on the intangible and metaphysical nature of time.

• The 7th Young Guns International Student Film Festival in 2007
• Selected for screening at Celebrate Drama Festival 2008
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Directed by: Darrell Wee
Produced by: Melinda Tan

Synopsis:
A life lost. A brotherhood betrayed. KIERAN struggles to accept the return of his brother KENNETH from prison. The night before KENNETH's release, KIERAN goes on a joyride in his father's car - only to pick up a mysterious passenger who helps him remember the symbiotic kinship he once treasured with his brother. Forgiveness is difficult, but worth it.

• Selected for screening as part of First Takes at the Substation
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Directed by: Maybelline Teo
Produced by: Seah Aik Hoe

Synopsis:
Anything can happen in the unpredictably fickle game of love. You can be as snug as puppies one day and cold as ice the next. LING falls for JAMES whom she thinks is the perfect guy for her. But when this fairytale romance takes a turn for the worse, Ling falls into an abyss of sleepless nights and finds herself playing the tormenting game of waiting. Will she continue to get trapped in the lost relationship, clinging onto lost hope, waiting for the call that will never come, pining for the Prince Charming who will never return?

Director: Elizabeth Wijaya, Lai Weijie

Synopsis:
Two strangers are in similar hotel rooms. One pleasures himself in the bathroom after a failed tryst while the other lies in bed and touches himself while he thinks of his ex-lover. While leaving, they meet in the elevator and as the doors slide to a close, they exchange glances...

Director: Lai Weijie
Producer: Coming Soon

Synopsis:
Singapore, an unspecified time. John, an introverted young man, wakes up the day after his breakup with his girlfriend May. He struggles with a sense of detachment, grappling with this new reality he faces. His battle to come to terms with his loss leads him to recall the times shared with May, and appreciate their newfound significance.

Director: Low Beng Kheng
Producer: Shaun Oon

Synopsis:
Just how attached are we to our material possessions? How much of our lives are spent worrying over material things and how much is spent living in the present? Follow one fellow hostel tenant through a day in his life, his encounters with his fellow friends and family. A day in the life of a student living in Singapore, from a different perspective.

Director: Gillian Lim
Producer: Gillian Lim

Synopsis:
An entertainer-wannabe is possessed by her conscience-spirit one comfy, quiet Friday morning. She revives her long lost dream and dances to Rosemary Clooney’s Mambo Italiano in a kopitiam.

Do what you like. Be what you dream. Have fun. It’s a Friday morning.

Director: Song Yizhuang
Producer: Zhang Liuhang

Synopsis:
A darkly comical look at the lives of a group of neighbours in a university dormitory. The relationship between the four residents of Block 8 is polite, and despite being proximally close is somewhat superficial – yet highly functional. Meanwhile, behind those doors which shut each other out, each resident faces a turning point in their relationship with someone else who is emotionally close to them – with painful results.

Director: Shaun Oon
Producer: Low Beng Kheng

Synopsis:
In the near future, a young man, with a deep baritone, sets forth to make an investigative documentary in order to ascertain the Truth behind a 'mysterious' disease affecting his countrymen. Finding out the first victim to be a university student named Zhao Ma Ge, he becomes determined to find the man who has curiously disappeared. In the course of his investigation, he encounters two of Ma Ge's friends, Everitt John Goh and Suzi Chew. He then decides to abandon his pursuit of the all-encompassing truth to join Everitt and Suzi in their personal search for Zhao Ma Ge.

A look into Jazz.

Jazz up your life.

Jazz.

Director: Tang Kin Ching
Producer: Coming Soon

Synopsis:
A love story.

From attraction to love. From love to saying goodbye.

Are you immobilised?

Director: Robert Tan
Producer: Robert Tan

Synopsis:
Waiting and waiting. Bored of waiting? Come enter the devil's playground.

Director: Song Yizhuang
Producer: Coming Soon

Synopsis:
Six people talk to a counsellor about their various quirky problems individually, in an undisclosed room. They complain about seemingly petty and mundane fears that slowly reveal more about their real problems. In addition, the dialogue slowly reveals links between the different patients.

Director: Tang Cheemun
Producer: Coming Soon

Synopsis:
Living his life around his gaming and anime hobby, Ah De suddenly finds himself forced to re-examine that same life as he is fired from his job. Wandering around town, he begins to seek out answers about the meaning of his life. The only problem is that he doesn't get the answers quite the way he expects…

Director: Phua Chai Chow
Producer: Phua Chai Chow

Synopsis:
Falling in love, being in love and falling out of love. Gary is in love with someone he has yet to meet; Siow Ling awaits the arrival of her boyfriend; Dwight and Sher Ping's routine relationship has a strain; Jenny and Michael's insecure relationship takes a toll; and Qiyi has to deal with terrible news from her ex, Jorlene.

Awards:
Bangkok International Film Festival 2004 (In Competition for Best Short Film)

Director: Lesley Tan
Producer: Coming Soon

Synopsis:
Sim Wai Keong, a not so successful advertising executive in his mid 20s, cannot bring himself to remember and pen his birth date down. Flooded with beautiful memories of his childhood, he is perplexed by his problem and on one given day, layers of the past and untruths will be peeled off, and then – he remembers.

Director: Eugene Ng
Producer: Coming Soon

Synopsis:
An adaptation of lawyer/playwright Bryan Tan's award-winning play, this film lends a humorous twist to the problems faced by a young unmarried couple, Simon and Tutu, when they realize that Tutu is pregnant. In a most unlikely scenario, Simon and Tutu takes turns to lock themselves in the toilet while carrying out conversations with the other about meeting Tutu's parents, their future as parents, and their insecurities.

Director: Tan Bee Thiam
Executive Producer: Kelvin Tong
Producer: Agnes Ng

Synopsis:
Shelter is a story about little deaths that occur unnoticed amidst the grind of city life. A screen adaptation of the short story by Dr. Gopal Baratham, it pieces together fragments of the lives of an old lady, an inter-racial couple and two gangsters. Shielding them in its shade is the shelter but it too cannot escape change.

Awards:

• Starhub's MySpace/Spectrum (Participation)
• Singapore International Film Festival 2003 (Participation)
• The .MOV International Digital Film Festival 2005
  (Opening Film and In Competition for Best Southeast Asia Short Film)
• First Take 2004, the Substation

Director: Alex Tham
Producer: Coming Soon

Synopsis:
Kim Ho is late for an appointment with his girlfriend. He then gets lost while looking for her block, and encounters various persons who represent certain aspects of Singapore culture or institutions.

Director: Ho Supei
Producer: Coming Soon

Synopsis:
Inspired by the transforming powers of the night, 'Insomnia' explores the night scene in Singapore, with a special emphasis on the alternative dance music culture. Follow Jade, a creature of the night, in her night escapades.

Awards:
Starhub's MySpace/Spectrum (Participation)

Director: Coming Soon
Producer: Tan Bee Thiam, Hoong Sze Wei

Synopsis:
A short film about a Filipino friend who was fighting against cancer. This film is used to tell his story and raised funds for his operation.

Director: Lim Yang Cherng
Producer: Coming Soon

Synopsis:
The audience is taken along this voyeuristic journey as they are given a glimpse of events happening within a cheap hotel room. The chambermaid acts as the buffer between the different occupants and features as a twist at the end of the movie as she unwittingly unravels a murder.

Awards:
Singapore Shorts Film Festival 2003 (Participation)

Director: Kristin Saw
Producer: Serene Lim

Synopsis:
A single child often left alone at home, Weijie is a lonely boy who finds a friend in Danny through email, and one day decides to meet him.

Awards:

• Tel Aviv 9th International Student Film Festival (Participation)
• Singapore Shorts Film Festival 2003 (Participation)

Director: Tan Bee Thiam
Producer: Coming Soon

Synopsis:
Caught in a rigid, oppressive, circuitous and yet static milieu, "I" desires liberation. Ultimately, she finds release from a universal affliction.

Awards:
Singapore Shorts Film Festival 2002 (Official selection)