[PANEL 4] FROM SET TO STARTUP: THE ENTREPRENEURIAL FILMMAKER

*SCAPE Gallery | 10 November 2024 | 3.30PM – 5PM

Are all filmmakers secretly entrepreneurs? Filmmaking and entrepreneurship share a surprising amount of DNA. Both require vision, risk-taking, resource management, and a relentless pursuit of a goal. In this session, we will dissect the entrepreneurial mindset – the ability to see opportunities, take risks, and persevere – to ascertain how to craft it into a valuable asset in the competitive world of filmmaking.

Yusri (Shaggy) Sapari

Yusri (Shaggy) Sapari is a digital video artist and documentary filmmaker who started his journey recording his grandmother and TV shows on his audio cassette tape recorder as a child. Shaggy runs Paradise Pictures and works as a multimedia designer for the theatre. He received the Film Grant Award in 2018 with Freedom Film Festival, was nominated for Best Documentary at the National Youth Film Awards 2019, and was a recipient of the Viddsee Juree Audience Choice Award and Bronze Award for Excellence in Filmmaking for Spotlight Film Awards in 2019.

Jerrold Chong

Jerrold Chong is an animation filmmaker and director. A CalArts graduate, his films have screened at international festivals like Cannes, Busan, and Annecy. He is also a two-time winner of the National Youth Film Awards Best Animation Award for WHAT HAS TO BE and AUTOMATONOMY. Jerrold is co-founder of independent animation studio Finding Pictures, and serves as Programme Director for local independent animation festival Cartoons Underground. In 2022, he was awarded the NYFA Youth Inspiration Award and the NAC Young Artist Award.

Jasmine Ng

Jasmine Ng is a filmmaker who tells stories across film, television, theatre, site-specific installations, and audioscapes. She has directed and executive produced award-winning shorts like MOVEABLE FEAST and feature films like EATING AIR, A YEAR OF NO SIGNIFICANCE and SHIRKERS, and created film installations for multi-disciplinary projects such as Both Sides, Now—exploring issues around death and dying with different communities. She also co-created SAGA, Singapore’s first award-winning long-form narrative podcast about the mysterious takeover of AWARE. Jasmine is the founding and current president of the Singapore Association of Motion Picture Professionals.