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Fellow’s Tea with Ms. Tan Pin Pin

23 Sep 2015 | 12:00 am |
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Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea

Tan Pin Pin

4-6pm, Wednesday

23rd September, 2015

Reading Room, Learn Lobe

Refreshments will be served.

Only 40 seats available!

Film Screening followed by Fellow’s Tea

Please register at: tembusu.nus.edu.sg

Hosted by Dr.Margaret Tan

Come catch one of Tan Pin Pin’s films followed a Q&A session with the filmmaker herself.

“Few Singaporean artist of any medium have trained their gaze as penetratingly and persistently on the nation’s identity. Self-examination – both its necessity and its limits, as well as the intersection between the personal and the public, are the thematic foundations to Tan’s work.” – Moviemaker.

Tan Pin Pin’s award-winning films include Moving House (2001), Singapore GaGa (2005), Invisible City (2007) and To Singapore, with Love (2013). The latter, about Singapore political exiles is banned from public screenings. Her films have earned awards and acclaim in festivals internationally.

Pin Pin has an MFA from Northwestern University. She is a board member of Singapore International Film Festival and is a founding member of filmcommunitysg, an independent film advocacy group.

Photo taken may be used for Tembusu publicity materials