Date: Sunday 28 Jul, 2pm-4pm
Venue: *SCAPE Gallery, Level 5
Free admission with registration
How do directors coax subtle performances from their actors? How do they rehearse their actors? What do they do if an actor can’t give them the performance they want?
How do actors prepare for their role? How do they break down a script? How do they tackle a difficult scene filled with pages of dialogue? And what are things that directors should not do or say to actors?
Join two of Singapore’s emerging and critically acclaimed director and actor, Nicole Midori Woodford (‘Waiting Room’, ‘Permanent Resident’) and Fir Rahman (lead actor in Boo Junfeng’s ‘Apprentice’), in this panel discussion as they reflect on their craft and share the respective techniques they employ to create memorable, believable, and critically acclaimed performances using examples from their past works.
About the speakers:
Nicole Midori Woodford is a Singaporean film director, writer and editor. She is an alumna of Berlinale Talents, Asian Film Academy, Torino Film Lab and Talents Tokyo. Her short films have competed in various festivals including Busan International Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and Singapore International Film Festival amongst many others. Nicole has also directed several commercial and narrative works for Zhao Wei Films.
She is currently working on her debut feature film project, You Are There, which was selected in SGIFF Southeast Asian Lab, Talents Tokyo at FILMEX and SEAFIC lab in 2017 where it clinched two awards. You Are There, produced by Jeremy Chua and Shozo Ichiyama, was also selected at the FeatureLab program at Torino Film Lab in 2018 and was awarded the Co-Production award. Nicole is also a film lecturer at the School of Art, Design & Media at Nanyang Technological University.
Fir Rahman discovered his passion for acting and hosting when he won a talent search competition held by MediaCorp Suria channel in 2002. He continued to hone his craft by acting in several theatre productions by Theater Kami while continuing to star in various television dramas, variety and infotainment shows on Suria and Channel 5. He most recently won Best Actor In A Supporting Role for the TV series GUNTING at the Pesta Perdana, Mediacorp Suria’s awards show for local Malay television.
His first feature film role was in Boo Junfeng’s APPRENTICE, where he starred as the lead Sergeant Aiman Yusof, the apprentice of an executioner.
The panel discussion will be moderated by Ho Say Peng.
A graduate of the Puttnam School of Film & Animation, Say Peng is a filmmaker and film programmer for the Singapore Film Society and the Japanese Film Festival Singapore.
This programme is co-organised by *SCAPE and The Filmic Eye.
