Production Talk: November by Shane Lim1 min read

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‘November’ premiered at the 25th Singapore International Film Festival. It was also awarded “Best Script” at the 6th Singapore Short Film Awards, and was nominated for the “Golden Reel”, awarded to the best short film, at the 31st Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.

 1. What inspired this short film?
At the age of 19, I experienced my first STD scare. The discovery, the anxiety and fear of testing positive, and worse, passing it on to my partners, brought upon an overwhelming feeling that I couldn’t right this wrong. Up until that point in my life, I never found myself in a situation so dead end.

I had a difficult time coming to terms with how I potentially ruined people’s lives. There was a part of me that wanted to keep mum, and hope everything would be ok, that it was just my imagination, that it was paranoia, but I couldn’t get a peace of mind.

Eventually, as my conscience would have it, I came clean with the people involved and this lead to difficult confrontations, which formed the basis of the script.

As I recalled the experience during the writing process, I felt strongly that it was a very maturing experience, but I wasn’t really sure why. What does it mean to “grow up” exactly? What does it mean to “mature”? These became the questions which drove the plot, so over the course of a night, Kai and Min slowly shed their innocence, becoming a little less fluff, and a lot more honest.

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