-The Projector Exclusive-

4 wins & 13 nominations including:

Cannes Film Festival 2024 Winner - Golden Camera 

2024 Golden Horse Film Festival Winner- Best New Director.

Singapore International Film festival 2024 Winner - Best Asian Feature Film

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Ticketed at $18, 50% of the ticket proceeds go to TWC2

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Date & Time: Sunday, 26th January 2025 at 4pm

Venue: Redrum, Hall 1, The Projector at Golden Mile Tower

Join us for a special screening of Singapore International’s Film Festival Beast Asian Feature Winner, MONGREL. 50% of the ticket proceeds will be donated to Transient Workers Count 2, a non-profit organization in Singapore dedicated to advocating for the fair treatment of migrant workers.

The screening will include a panel discussion with Director, Chiang Wei Liang, and TWC2’s President Debbie Fordyce, who will discuss the film and the invaluable role of migrant workers who work in caregiving in Singapore. The conversation will be moderated by multi-disciplinary artist Ezzam Rahman.

About Mongrel:

Oom, an undocumented Thai migrant in rural Taiwan, works as a caregiver for the elderly and disabled. He has to deal with suspicious employers, restricted mobility, withheld wages, and fellow migrants who question his complicit relationship with his exploitative boss. Torn between complying in hopes of eventually receiving his delayed pay, or maintaining his dignity, Oom must navigate his difficult circumstances to survive.

About Chiang Wei Liang (Director, Mongrel):

Born in Singapore, Chiang Wei Liang graduated from the Nanyang Technological University with a degree in Communication Studies and completed his MFA (Film Directing) at the Taipei National University of the Arts. Based in Taiwan for the past decade, his work focuses on migration and diaspora of Southeast Asians in modern Asia. His film, Anchorage Prohibited received the Audi Short Film Award at the 66th Berlinale and recent short films Luzon, Nyi Ma Lay and the VR short film Only The Mountain Remains – in competition at the 76th Venice Film Festival – continue this commentary on the difficult lives of migrants. Chiang is an alumnus of the Locarno Filmmakers Academy, Talents Tokyo, FID Campus and the Golden Horse Film Academy, mentored by esteemed Taiwanese auteur Hou Hsiao-Hsien. His debut feature, Mongrel, premiered at the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and received the Camera d’Or Special Mention.

About TWC2:

Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2) is a non-profit organization in Singapore dedicated to advocating for the fair treatment of migrant workers. Recognizing their vital contributions to the nation, TWC2 strives for a society that values their labor. Through research, policy engagement, and direct assistance to workers, they aim to create a more equitable framework for migrant labor in Singapore. This includes ensuring fair resolution of disputes, dignified working and living conditions, access to necessary medical care, and the protection of workers' autonomy.

About Debbie Fordyce (TWC2):

Debbie FORDYCE worked from 1980 with the US resettlement program of Indochinese refugees in Singapore and Indonesia. That program ended in 1989, at which time Debbie, occupied with small children, gradually took on other jobs. She began volunteering with TWC2 in 2005, and set up The Cuff Road Project in 2008. Coordinating The Cuff Road project quickly became a full-time effort, and she continues in that capacity. In addition, Debbie heads the subcommittee that oversees medical assistance for injured and ill clients.

About Ezzam Rahman:

Ezzam is a multi-disciplinary artist known for his interest in the body and the use of common, easily accessible, yet unconventional media in his art practice. Working across sculpture, installation, digital media, and performance, he creates works that are often autobiographical, time-based, and ephemeral, aiming to pique viewers’ thoughts on the themes of body politics, identity, impermanence, traces, and abjection.

Ezzam is an adjunct lecturer in LASALLE College of the arts and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Singapore. He was awarded a joint winner of the Grand Prize for the President's Young Talents 2015 and the People’s Choice Award by the Singapore Art Museum. In 2016, Ezzam was awarded the Goh Chok Tong Youth Promise Award by Yayasan Mendaki and the prestigious Young Artist Award by the National Arts Council, Singapore.

In 2021, Ezzam was awarded the Most Promising Award; photography category for PULSE Awards, Thailand and served The Substation, an independent arts company, Singapore as the artistic director. In 2023 Ezzam was invited by the National Institute of Education NIE, Singapore for their NIE Visiting Artist Programme and was the artistic director appointed by Plus Collaboratives for the National Arts Council’s launch event of NAC Our SG Arts Plan (2023 – 2027).

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T&Cs: Projector Club Members Discounted & Free Tickets, Projector Gift/Venue Hire Vouchers are NOT valid for this event.