Buy Boomtown Beijing DVD –Support the World Survivor-thon

I love that quote by playwright, Samuel Beckett: ” I can’t go on, I still go on ”
Boomtown Beijing is a film about ordinary people who finds the courage and dignity to keep going on. Hence we are delighted to lend our support to the World Suvivorthon, sponsored by the Blog of Dreams.  The World […]

One Last Chance to Catch Olympic Documentary in Beijing

This weekend will be your last chance to catch our film, Boomtown Beijing, in China’s capital city.

It is perhaps apt that this documentary about the Beijing Olympics will end its run right before the summer games are about to start. When we started this series of screenings at Salud in Nanluoguxiang, Dongcheng District, many people […]

Boomtown Beijing:Encore Screenings in China’s Capital

Our film, Boomtown Beijing made its China debut in Beijing on April 20 2008.  Since then, we have done a tour of China’s top universities and screenings in the major Chinese cities of Shanghai, Guangzhou, Xian and Suzhou.

As the 2008 Olympics fast approaches, we return to China’s capital for a series of encore screenings.  You  […]

Boomtown Beijing’s Suzhou Premiere

Olympics documentary, Boomtown Beijing, makes its debut in the scenic town of Suzhou, thanks to the hard work of Rebecca Trigger from the Suzhou Bookworm, a English lending library, restaurant and cultural events centre.

Date: Fri 13th June
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: The Bookworm
Number 77 Gunxiu lane,
corner of Shiquan Street and Ping Qiao Zhijie.
Suzhou, Jiangsu.

Proceeds go towards the Library […]

Top Ten Things You Didn’t Know about the film “Boomtown Beijing”

10. This documentary about the Beijing Olympics grew out of a module on “International Documentary Production” that the director, Tan Siok Siok, taught at the Beijing Film Academy, China’s famous film school.
9. 4 of the producers on the project are current undergraduate students from the Management Faculty of the Beijing Film Academy. They are […]

Sounds of Beijing

I have worked in TV my entire career. But secretly, I enjoy radio more. By that, I mean really well-produced radio features that use sound to trigger the listener’s imagination.
I am into the final stages of post production for my documentary about the Beijing Olympics and I have been hunting obsessively for sound […]

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