CO-PRODUCTION PROTOCOL Dynamic Singaporean producer Jeremy Chua is to receive the FIAPF Award for Outstanding Contribution to Asia Pacific Cinema, at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) on Nov. 3 on Australia’s Gold Coast. In the nine years since founding his company Potocol, Chua has focused on international co-production of Asian films and telling Asia stories. Two of his …
Tell us about your work on Golden Scene cinema.
We actually started off designing Golden Scene’s offices and then one thing led to another and we took on the cinema. The journey was a long one, but we’ve now been able to see the movie industry through a completely new lens. We appreciate all the hard work that movie-making practitioners put in and with time, this project has become personal and meaningful to me. I have witnessed first-hand the determination of Winnie Tsang and Felix Tsang from Golden Scene as they’ve persevered through all the obstacles caused by Covid-19. We had been searching for cinema sites with Golden Scene since 2017 and it was not until Christmas 2020 that we finally got consent from the government to proceed with the build. At that point, we only had two months to get the cinema ready.