Faeryville
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Directed by | Tzang Merwyn Tong |
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Written by | Tzang Merwyn Tong |
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Cinematography | David Foo |
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Distributed by | INRI studio |
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Running time | 95 minutes[1] |
Country | Singapore/ USA |
Language | English |
Faeryville is a 2015 Singapore independent film written and directed by cult director Tzang Merwyn Tong. The coming-of-age dystopian film stars Lyon Sim, Aaron Samuel Yong, Tanya Graham and Kris Moller. Faeryville tells the story of a group of college misfits who decide to fight the ruling fraternities, turning youthful idealism into all-out anarchy. Faeryville is Singapore's first dystopian teen movie.[2]
The film features an original music score by Alex Oh, and music by Singapore indie bands, including The Great Spy Experiment, post-rock band In Each Hand a Cutlass, Bob Kamal and ANECHOIS.[3]
The film made its world premiere to rousing reception in Los Angeles, California, represented by US distributor Eleven Arts, followed by a limited theatrical release in Singapore.[4][5] It was the Closing Night Film of the Brisbane Festival 2015 [6] and won the Award for Best Original Story at the FLIXX Festival,[7] in Scott Valley, United States.
Plot
Set in an alternate universe, in a college called Faeryville, a group of teenage misfits struggle to find themselves and make sense of their ‘teenhood’. They decide that there is no reason in trying to fit-in, and fashioned themselves as pranksters, calling themselves The Nobodies. Enter Laer, a new transfer student who joins The Nobodies, inspiring them to move from stink bombs to homemade bombs. Youthful idealism soon becomes an excuse for all-out anarchy.[8]
Cast
- Lyon Sim as Poe
- Aaron Samuel Yong as Laer
- Tanya Graham as Belle
- Jae Leung as CK
- Farid Assalam as Taurus
- Jade Griffin as Chloe
- Kris Moller as The Principal
- Jordan Prainito as Anthony
- Roshan Gidwani as AJ
Production
The film took the director 8 years, 14 script rewrites and 3 meltdowns to complete.[9][10]
See also
References
- ↑ "Faeryville (PG13)". Motion Picture Association of America. 26 November 2014. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
- ↑ IMDB (22 January 2015). "Faeryville (2015) – IMDB". IMDB. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
- ↑ Cassandra Cass (31 May 2015). "Faeryville: Local Soundtrack – Offbeat Perspectives". Offbeat Perspectives. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
- ↑ Dylan Tan (3 August 2012). "Zooming in on Reel Deals – Business Times, The". Singapore Press Holdings. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
- ↑ Fmagazine (22 January 2015). "Singapore film 'Faeryville' premieres in Hollywood to rousing reception – FmovieMag". Retrieved 14 September 2015.
- ↑ Griffith Film School Cinema (25 September 2015). "SINGAPORE UNBOUND - A SINGAPORE CINEMA SHOWCASE". Brisbane Festival. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ Flixx Festival (27 September 2015). "2015 FLIXX Festival Concluded". Flixx Festival. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ↑ Fmagazine (22 January 2015). "Singapore film 'Faeryville' premieres in Hollywood to rousing reception – FmovieMag". Retrieved 14 September 2015.
- ↑ Dylan Tan (3 August 2012). "Zooming in on Reel Deals – Business Times, The". Singapore Press Holdings. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
- ↑ Johnathan Julius (7 November 2014). "Production Talk with Tzang Merwyn Tong – SINdie". SINdie. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
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