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Singapore GaGa

Directed by

Tan Pin Pin

Year

Runtime

2005

55 minutes

Genre

Documentary

Language

English, Mandarin, Malay

Synopsis

Singapore GaGa is a 55-minute paean to the quirkiness of the Singaporean aural landscape. It reveals Singapore's past and present with a delight and humour that makes it a necessary film for all Singaporeans. We hear buskers, street vendors, school cheerleaders sing hymns to themselves and to their communities. From these vocabularies (including Arabic, Latin, Hainanese), a sense of what it might mean to be a modern Singaporean emerges. This is Singapore's first documentary to have a cinema release.

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Producer(s)

Tan Pin Pin

Produced by

Cinemancer

International Sales/Distribution

Cast

Melvyn Cedello, Victor Khoo, Hong Chow Yew, Margaret Leng Tan, Juanita Melson

Tags

2005, Documentary, Quirk, Singaporean

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