We're still reeling from the news: Singapore Dreaming just became the first ever Singaporean film to win the Best Asian/Middle Eastern Film Award at the 20th Tokyo International Film Festival!

As Yen Yen and Colin had to be in Washington DC where the film is the closing film of the US Asean Festival, they could not attend the awards ceremony.

Thankfully, Alice Lim (who plays 'Ma')'s daughter Leng Yeng is stationed in Tokyo and could represent us. (That's her above. She's so glam, she should represent us at every awards ceremony!)

Winning at Tokyo is a huuuuge deal for us, and we're deeply honoured and grateful. Thank you, Tokyo jury! Thank you, TIFF! Thank you, audiences! Thank you, investors, actors, crew, distributors, sales agent and everyone who helped make our dream come true!

We had a great full-house premiere in Taipei, as the closing film of the Women Make Waves Film Festival, ahead of our commercial run on November 9 in Taipei and Kaohsiung!

Our star Yeo Yann Yann (also of '881' fame) also flew in to add some glamour to the screening and was mobbed for autographs for an hour!

Singapore singing superstar Tanya Chua also very kindly came to say some nice words about the film and share some Singaporean pride. Everyone, please go and buy her great new album "Hello and Goodbye"!

More great reviews from the Taiwanese press here If you have friends in Taiwan, please tell them to support our little film!

Here's a really great review for Singapore Dreaming by a Taiwanese critic: Click here

Full disclosure: We had to phone our fabulous actress Yeo Yann Yann (fresh from her star turn in '881') to help us with some translation... we really need to beef up our Mandarin before we head to Taiwan for our opening there! (See post below)

Hey, it'll be a busy October for Singapore Dreaming! We're playing in three cities:

The Women Make Waves Film Festival in Taiwan
Singapore Dreaming is honoured to be chosen as the Closing Film for East Asia’s most prestigious women’s film festival.
Date: October 21, 2007
Time: 7 pm
Venue: Shin Kong Cineplex, Taipei
Website: http://www.wmw.com.tw/

Tokyo International Film Festival
Singapore Dreaming has been selected to compete for the Best Asian/Middle Eastern Film Award at one of the world’s top film festivals.
October 23, 2007 at 9 pm at Roppongi TOHO Cinemas Screen 5
October 25, 2007 at 11 am at Roppongi TOHO Cinemas Screen 2
Website: http://www.tiff-jp.net/en/lineup/works.php?id=98

The Smithsonian Institution’s New Films From Southeast Asia Series
Singapore Dreaming has been chosen as Singapore’s representative at the 2007 US Asean Film Festival in honour of the 30th anniversary of Asean-US relations, with the support of the GRACE Heritage Foundation, the ASEAN Secretariat, the Embassy of the Republic of Singapore and the Singapore Tourism Board.
"...Singapore Dreaming sustains, with a surprising delicacy, the anxiety of a runaway consumer culture in a way few films have.” - Express, the Washington Post
Date: October 28,2007
Time: 2pm
Venue: Meyer Auditorium at the Freer Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Jefferson Drive & 12th Street SW
Website: http://www.asia.si.edu/events/films.asp

The award-winning screenwriters/directors/producers, Woo Yen Yen and Colin Goh, who are also the founders of Singaporean satirical website www.TalkingCock.com, will be present at all three events.

This is a great opportunity for Singaporeans in Taipei, Tokyo and the Washington, DC area to share a slice of Singapore life!

Hot on the heels of our win at the Asian American International Film Fest, we're very happy to announce that Singapore Dreaming has been invited to compete in the Tokyo International Film Festival 2007 for the Best Asian/Middle Eastern Film Award. Naturally, this is a huge deal for us. Yasujiro Ozu's 'Tokyo Story' was a massive influence on Singapore Dreaming and we're delighted to be able to screen in the master's own city. And we can't wait to be sushi-snarfing in Tsukiji!

We're right now over the moon - we just found out that Singapore Dreaming won the Audience Award for Narrative Feature at the 30th Asian American International Film Festival!

Thank you to everyone who voted for us! We're really honoured, especially as the competition this year was so strong.

We really regret we weren't able to make it to the awards ceremony (long story, lah! Argh!) but thank you to everyone once again!

A biiiig, wet and sloppy kiss from us to everyone who came for our New York premiere of Singapore Dreaming yesterday at the Asia Society.

We were very thrilled by the full house, and so was the Asian American International Film Festival - one of our favourite fests in the entire world. Pictures of the premiere to come! Thanks also for all of you who came to speak to us after the screening.

So what’s next for SGD? Well, for Singaporeans and friends of Singapore in the D.C. area, the film has been invited to have a special screening at the Smithsonian in October. So watch for more news…

And the biggest news of all… Singapore Dreaming will be having a commercial release in Taiwan! So Singaporeans in Taiwan, see you soon! More news as this unfolds.

Hey, we're really looking forward to meeting you at the SFIFF - we're the only Singapore film in the fest, and we're also one of SanFranciscoChinatown.com's Picks! Please tell your friends! Click on the image above for screening details and to buy tickets!

A hearty congratulations to our very own YEO YANN YANN for winning Best Actress at the Life! Theatre Awards for her performance in Lei Yu (Thunderstorm).

That makes three Life! Award-winners in our cast, alongside Serene Chen and Lim Yu-Beng!

For readers in the US, don't forget: you have a chance to see our award-winning cast on the big screen in Philadelphia and San Francisco in April and May!

Here are the dates for Singapore Dreaming's US premieres:

Our East Coast premiere will be as part of the Philadelphia International Film Festival on:

Saturday 14 April at 5:00 at the Ritz 5 Theater
Sunday 15 April at 12:15 at the Ritz 5 Theater
Wednesday 18 April at 6:15 at the HiWay Theater

Meanwhile, our West Coast premiere will be part of the San Francisco International Film Festival at the following dates and times, venue to be confirmed:

April 29 at 8:30 pm
May 3 at 10:00 am
May 4 at 1:00 pm
May 5 at 3:00 pm

If you have friends or family in Philly or SF, please let them know!