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It has been a long, long road for Tzang Merwyn Tong's Faeryville. A dystopic tale of troubled youth in Singapore the picture was made entirely outside the established system within that nation, where the politics of the picture put it very much at odds with the image that Singapore very much prefers to project to the world at large.But Tong has persisted through the years and with a modest public release planned for this coming weekend, advance ticket sales are already selling out - prompting the local distributor to add more screenings.Poe and his friends are pranksters at Faeryville College, often bullied by the oppressive fraternity. To protect themselves, they form a clique calling themselves The Nobodies. Enter Laer, a new transfer student who joins...

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It's been a long time coming for Singapore's Tzang Merwyn Tong and long in the works passion project Faeryville. Tzang's feature debut after a string of highly acclaimed shorts Faeryville has been eight years in the making, its story of misfit youth pushed to violence proving the sort of sensitive material many were afraid to touch and support. But with things now wrapped the first teaser has arrived and while it's very much a brief tease meant to announce the imminent arrival of the full trailer there's already enough here to see influences from early Toyoda, Sono and the like.Poe and his friends are pranksters at Faeryville College, often bullied by the oppressive fraternity. To protect themselves, they form a clique calling themselves The Nobodies....

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I've been to Faeryville, and it's one heck of a ride. One Singapore filmmaker is standing out from the rest of the pack with his works, avoiding the tried and tested successful formulae that makes it big at the local box office, opting instead to forge his own independent path down the fantastical realms that genre films can offer. With medium length films like [e'tzaintes], V1K1 - A Techno Fairytale, and A Wicked Tale, the latter arguably his most successful and acclaimed work to date, Tzang Merwyn Tong has now come full circle with his first feature film called Faeryville, set in an eco-system deceptively modelled as a college.Last year, Tzang debuted a work-in-progress cut codenamed Frvl at the South-east Asian Film Festival in Singapore, and had wickedly left the audience with...

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