Inside ‘Ah Girl,’ the Singapore Drama Built From a Director’s Own Childhood: ‘We Can’t Fly Without First Learning How to Walk’
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Variety reports that Singaporean director Ang Geck Geck Priscilla has brought her feature debut "Ah Girl" to the Toronto International Film Festival as a Centrepiece selection, marking its North American premiere after earlier wins at Rotterdam and Hong Kong. The film emerged from more than a decade of development, including three short films and years of festival labs, with the director drawing directly from her own childhood to build the drama. That long apprenticeship before the first feature suggests a filmmaker who understands that some stories cannot be rushed.
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Source: Variety, “Inside ‘Ah Girl,’ the Singapore Drama Built From a Director’s Own Childhood: ‘We Can’t Fly Without First Learning How to Walk’”. Read the original →
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