- Tan Pin Pin
Tan Pin Pin (zh-sp|s=陈彬彬|p=Chén Bīnbīn) is a
Singapore -basedfilm director . Her credits include "Singapore GaGa", which had a sold out seven week theatrical run in Singapore. The film, a survey of Singaporean life as expressed in sounds, has played in film festivals around the world. [cite news |first=Joanne |last=Leow |title=Local film to be screened at Rotterdam Film Festival |url=http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/entertainment/view/153722/1/.html |work=Entertainment News |publisher=Channel NewsAsia |date=2005-06-20 |accessdate=2007-03-05] [cite web |url=http://www.mtvasia.com/Feature/Entertainment/20060306000418/index.html |title=Singapore Gaga: Sounds of a Nation |accessdate=2007-03-05 |last=Chng |first=Patrick |date=2006-03-06 |work=MTV Asia |publisher=MTV Networks |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20060827132946/http://mtvasia.com/Feature/Entertainment/20060306000418/index.html |archivedate=2006-08-27]Her short film "Moving House" won Best Documentary at the
Student Academy Awards in 2002. [cite web |url=http://poll.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Student_Academy_Awards_USA/2002 |title=IMDb: Student Academy Awards, USA 2002.|accessdate=2007-03-28] Other awards include twoAsian Television Awards , Best Documentary at theUS ASEAN Film and Photography Festival in 2006, and "ELLE " magazine's Filmmaker of the Year.Fact|date=March 2007Her 2003 documentary "80kmh" is a single continuous take of the 38-minute long drive across the island of Singapore on the
Pan Island Expressway , and the view along the way. She intends to film a repeat trip every year, so that she can show all ten films side by side in 2013. [cite web |url=http://www.tanpinpin.com/wordpress/?page_id=14 |title=About Tan Pin Pin |accessdate=2007-03-05 |author=Tan Pin Pin |date=2006-06-18 |work=Notes from Serangoon Road (Tan Pin Pin's official blog} |publisher=Theron Parlin]Pin Pin is currently serving as a visiting fellow at a Singapore
think tank , the Institute of Policy Studies. [ [http://www.ips.org.sg/enewsletter/jan2007/tanpinpin.htm IPS welcomes Tan Pinpin] , Institute of Policy Studies] Her latest documentary, "Invisible City", on the documentary instinct in Singapore, was released on22 July 2007 . [cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title =Opens 22 July 2007. Tickets 63326919 | work = | publisher = | date =2007-07-12 | url =http://invisiblecity.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/44/ | format = | doi = | accessdate = 2007-07-20]Works
* "80 kmh" [http://www.tanpinpin.com/wordpress/?page_id=31]
* "Afterlife" series [http://afterlifedocumentary.tripod.com/]
* "Building Dreams" [http://www.tanpinpin.com/wordpress/?page_id=68]
* "Gravediggers' Luck"
* "Invisible City" [http://invisible.sg]
* "John Woo: Crossings" [http://www.tanpinpin.com/wordpress/?page_id=16]
* "Lurve Me Now" [http://www.tanpinpin.com/wordpress/?page_id=42]
* "microwave" [http://www.tanpinpin.com/wordpress/?page_id=55]
* "Moving House" [http://www.tanpinpin.com/wordpress/?page_id=35]
* "Rogers Park" [http://www.tanpinpin.com/wordpress/?page_id=40]
* "Singapore GaGa" [http://www.singaporegaga.com]References
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