Welcome to Screenwriters Association (Singapore)
The Screenwriters Association (Singapore) -- or SAS for short -- is a volunteer organisation
founded in May 2000 to support the Singapore film and television
industries and to promote the craft of screenwriting.
Our members include independent producers, talented young filmmakers,
students, and aspiring and professional writers. These are people
who desire to make a difference here as we shape the fledgling
screen industry in Singapore.
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Casablanca meets Friday the 13th: Playing with popular genres -- A screenwriting talk by Leslie O'Dell
Presented by Screenwriters Association (Singapore) and Esplanade Library
Friday, 23 July 2010, 7pm to 8.30pm
Esplanade Library
Producers love to jump on bandwagons and cash in on guaranteed hits, even though everyone knows that audiences get tired of recycled rip-offs and long for fresh takes on familiar popular genres. How can a screenwriter avoid the trap of blandly echoing out-of-date tricks of a genre while still remaining faithful to all the elements that attract fans as well as producers? One of the most significant tools is a fully nuanced understanding of exactly how genres work, how and why they endure, and how they can be manipulated for maximum cinematic effect.
About the speaker
Leslie O'Dell (PhD) is a professor of scriptwriting at the Wilfred Laurier University in Canada. With more than 30 years' experience in theatre, drama and screenwriting, she has acted, directed, written as well as taught. She is in Singapore for a visit and has kindly agreed to share her tips and experience in screenwriting.
Asian Script Repository -- protect your works
Asia's first script registry service is for Asian writers
and filmmakers wanting to protect your intellectual property
rights in the growing Asian film market.
By providing date-time stamp protection for their creative
works, the Asian Script Repository gives an additional layer of
safeguard that augments the pre-existing copyright protection
of their works.
Grants from Singapore Film Commission
In December 2003, Singapore Film Commission (SFC) unveiled
two new film development initiatives:
- SFC
Script Development Grant -- quantum for each grant is up to
$6,000 and SFC expects to award up to 16 grants per year. Deadlines
for submission of applications each year are 31 January and 31
July each year.
- Short Film Grant -- to help develop budding local filmmaking talents by facilitating them to work on a short film project, so that they may experiment with the film genre.
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