Film about "Political Exiles" banned in Singapore

[Goldbug]

 

sorry but i just want to say, this is what is about us now...

dun care history,

dun care others,

just care our own rice bowl full or not

 

history got no future

[Yrvsport]

when we got out of job, no money, more problems...than starts to think the history why thing always happen when we do goods thing during the past..hehe

[Si4dr]

 

history got no future

 

No history where got future.....................

[Camrysfa]

Some will get to see the show in SG soil. Some will have to go JB. Summary: Those who want to see it can see la. . . . BTW, the banning has generated worldwide attention.

 

 

http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2014/09/18/yale-nus-to-show-banned-film/

 

Yale-NUS to show banned film

By Lavinia Borzi and Matthew Lloyd-Thomas
Staff Reporters

Thursday, September 18, 2014

 

Despite a national ban in Singapore, Yale-NUS is pressing ahead with its plans to show a film that has been deemed by the Singaporean government as a threat to the country’s security.

 

The film, “To Singapore, with Love” documents the lives of nine Singaporean exiles — among them trade unionists, communists and student leaders — and was slated to be shown at the National University of Singapore Museum at the end of the month. But earlier this month, Singapore’s Media Development Authority classified the film as NAR, or “Not allowed for all ratings,” claiming that it unfairly suggested that exiles are being denied their right to return to the country.

 

The categorization prevents the film from being shown or distributed in the city-state of 5.4 million.

 

“By doing this, MDA is taking away an opportunity for us Singaporeans see it and to have a conversation about it and our past that this film could have started or contributed to,” Tan Pin Pin, the filmmaker, said in a statement.

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Now, the irony [is] that a film about Singapore exiles is now exiled from Singapore as well.”

 

The banning of the film quickly raised ire amongst Yale professors, including longtime Yale-NUS critics including English professor Jill Campbell and political science lecturer Jim Sleeper, who characterized the ban as a threat to freedom of expression at a college stamped with Yale’s name.

 

But despite the MDA ban, Yale-NUS President Pericles Lewis said the film will be shown in a course on documentary film later this semester on his campus. Lewis said that Yale-NUS checked with MDA about the screening of the film and received the response that the MDA “had no problems with our plans.”

 

 

[Voodooman]

Now I really have to watch it to decide if it is really so powerful to undermine national security.

 

Any link?

[Volvobrick]

 

Some will get to see the show in SG soil. Some will have to go JB. Summary: Those who want to see it can see la. . . . BTW, the banning has generated worldwide attention.

 

 

Thats why MDA so malu, making u-turn. Now say can screen in schools. So technically can say the film is not banned liao!

 

BTW Tan Pin Pin the producer is a President Scholar. Don't pray pray.....