SINdie Interview: Production Talk with Tan Bee Thiam and Lei Yuan Bin on ‘Fundamentally Happy’1 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSINdie was lucky enough to be able to catch up with directors Tan Bee Thiam and Yuan Bin on the process of making the film, and thoughts on responses from audience members and future distribution plans.
1. How did the directorial collaboration between yourself and Yuan Bin come about?
We were always curious how two directors can collaborate on the same film and so we gave it a try with this project. 13 Little Pictures has always been about creative collaboration so it was a natural decision.
2. How did you two work together in the process of making this film?
Both of us are collaborative in nature. We work in an organic way. We have a lot of creative conversations in every stage of the production. We challenge and inspire each other. When we differ in opinion, we let each other have a take each or a separate edit (for a scene for example). Our best decisions are always the consensual ones. On set, as time was the essence, I would often be the one conveying our decisions to the cast while Yuan Bin would do so to the crew. For more than a year, we edited together in the evenings and over weekends.
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