Tanjong Rhu
TANJONG RHU is a fictional account of a true story. Night falls in Singapore. Men walk cautiously through the forest, they are horny and out prowling for sex. Two young men meet at the beach and converse, and just a few frames later one of them confesses his lifestyle under police interrogation. He had fallen into a police schemed trap in the cruising area along the beautiful bay.
In September 1993 twelve men were in fact convicted in similar undercover operations where policemen pretended to be gay men. Some of the accused were incarcerated for several months, and their names, age, and profession were published in the leading national newspapers as a police scare tactic.
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Runtime
19 min -
Country
Singapore -
Year of Presentation
2009 -
Year of Production
2008 -
Director
Junfeng Boo -
Cast
Nick Shen, Scott Lei, Yann Yann Yeo -
Production Company
LASALLE College of Arts -
Berlinale Section
Panorama -
Berlinale Category
Short Film
Biography Junfeng Boo
Trained in film schools in Singapore and Spain, Boo Junfeng's award-winning short films include UN RETRATO DE FAMILIA (2005), STRANGER (2005), THE CHANGI MURALS (2006), KATONG FUGUE (2007), KELUAR BARIS (2008) and TANJONG RHU (2009). In 2009, he became the first recipient of the McNally Award for Excellence in the Arts – the valedictorian honour of Lasalle College of the Arts. He was also conferred the Young Artist Award in 2009, and the Singapore Youth Award in 2011 by the government of Singapore.
Filmography Junfeng Boo
2004 Un Retrato de Familia | 2008 Lucky7 | 2010 Sandcastle | 2016 Aprendiz