Several high profile global filmmakers and a number of Australians have become ambassadors for the inaugural 2011 ScreenSingapore event.
The list of 52 ambassadors includes Omnilab Media managing director Christopher Mapp, Village Roadshow chairman Robert Kirby, Icon Productions' Bruce Davey, Hoyts Group chief executive Delfin Fernandez and Amalgamated Holdings managing director David Seargeant. Other international ambassadors include Wayne Wang (director of The Joy Luck Club, Maid in Manhattan and Smoke) and Oliver Stone (director of Platoon, Wall Street, JFK).
The event, which will be held in June, aims to bring together movie stars, directors and film industry professionals to exchange ideas, business opportunities and showcase film products.
Singapore has four official film co-production partner countries – Australia, Canada, China and New Zealand.
The MDA has already co-funded a Singapore-Australian co-production, Bait 3D, through its new International Film Fund (IFF), which will premiere at the 2012 ScreenSingapore event. It has also committed to fund another local 3D film, The Harvest, which will be produced by Singapore’s Blackmagic Design Films and Australia's Goalpost Pictures.
The chairman of ScreenSingapore, Greg Coote, said the formal support of renowned film professionals and filmmakers was an honour.
"To know that we have their confidence in what ScreenSingapore will achieve just validates that we are on the right track and we look forward to working closely with each of them to develop Singapore’s potential as a film hub,” he said in a statement.
Coote, who started his long career in the Australian distribution sector, was also recently appointed the chairman of the Australian Stock Exchange-listed production startup RGM Media.
ScreenSingapore Ambassadors
1. Milt Barlow, China Lion Film Distribution
2. Bill Block, QED International
3. Moritz Borman, Onda Entertainment
4. Nadia Bronson, Nadia Bronson & Associates
5. Devesh Chetty, RGM Media Ltd
6. Sukee Chew, Hopscotch Pictures
7. Frank Cintamani, Fide Multimedia
8. Bruce Davey, Icon Productions
9. Antoine de Clermont Tonnerre, Mact Productions
10. Mark de Quervain, VUE Entertainment (UK)
11. Joe Drake, Lionsgate
12. Craig Emanuel, Loeb & Loeb LLP
13. Delfin Fernandez, HOYTS Group (Australia)
14. Stuart Ford, CEO, IM Global
15. Peter Fornstam, Svenska Bio
16. Richard J. Fox, Warner Bros. Entertainment International
17. Rob Friedman, Summit Entertainment
18. Subhash Ghai, Mukta Arts Ltd
19. David Glass, Golden Village
20. Samuel Hadida, Metropolitan Films
21. Paul Hanneman, Twentieth Century Fox
22. Yanming Jiang, China Lion Film Distribution
23. Robert Kirby, Village Roadshow Limited
24. Veronika Kwan-Rubinek, Warner Bros. Entertainment International
25. Sanjeev Lamba, Reliance BIG Pictures
26. Albert Lee, Emperor Motion Picture (HK)
27. Miky Lee, Vice Chairman, CJ Entertainment
28. Victor Loewy, Alliance Films Inc
29. Kishore Lulla, Eros International
30. Christopher Mapp, Omnilab Media
31. Rob Minkoff, Filmmaker
32. Andre Morgan, Ruddy Morgan Productions
33. Deepak Nayar, Kintop Pictures
34. Andrew Ooi, 852 Films
35. Sanford Panitch, Fox International Productions
36. William Pfeiffer, Tiger Gate Entertainment Ltd
37. Roger Pollock, Paramount Pictures International
38. John Ptak, Arsenal
39. Suhaimi Rafdi, Cathay Organisation Holdings Ltd
40. David Seargeant, Amalgamated Holdings Limited
41. Raja Sharif, Alnoor Holdings
42. Harold Shaw, Shaw Organisation
43. Oliver Stone, Filmmaker
44. Roeg Sutherland, Creative Artists Agency
45. Chris Thomas, BBDO / Proximity Asia
46. Jeremy Thomas, Recorded Picture Company
47. Stewart Till. Icon UK
48. David Unger, International Creative Management Inc.
49. Patrick Wachsberger, Summit Entertainment
50. Wan Bao Bao
51. Wayne Wang, Wayne Wang Productions
52. Erik Wilbers, World Intellectual Property Organization