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Singapore’s Tan Siyou Preps Debut Feature ‘Amoeba,’ From Venice-Competing ‘Stranger Eyes’ Producer Akanga Film
Set in an elite all-girls school in Singapore, the film is a personal story about the pressure to conform in the repressive city-state.
It’s produced by Fran Borgia of Singapore’s Akanga Film Asia (“ Tiger Stripes ”), who’s on the Lido with Yeo Siew Hua’s Golden Lion contender “ Stranger Eyes.” Speaking to Variety ahead of the Venice Film Festival, Tan said her debut is an exploration of the “paradox” of her homeland, a country that is “open but narrow-minded, Westernized but rooted in Eastern collectivism,” and whose post-independence “economic miracle” transformed the island nation from a sleepy fishing village into a prosperous modern state. While those who reaped the gains of that transformation were reluctant to rock the boat and willing to compromise certain freedoms in exchange for material comforts, their children — Tan’s generation — “had to conform to their recipe for prosperity,” said the director, “never allowed to question” the structures behind the miraculous economic success.
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