Topic: Should progress in Singapore come at the expense of the environment?

Speakers:

Lin Youwei Eric (Director)
Eric Lin a freelance cinematographer for TV documentaries, corporate videos and TVCs. He is also active in Singapore’s independent film-making scene. In his free time, he explores and works on social, cultural, and wildlife issues for his documentaries. In 2007, he completed Remember Chek Jawa and won the Mark Haslam Award at the Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival in Toronto.


Dr. Daniel Goh (Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, NUS)
Race and ethnic relations, multiculturalism, environment and society, service and social action learning, visual sociology and anthropology, anthropology of the state. He is especially keen on working with students who want to conduct research on social ecology, particularly those who want to work on the social determinants of the material ecological impact of urban processes measured by instruments such as 'ecological footprint' or 'carbon emissions per gross product dollar', and not discursive or social constructions of the environment.


N. Sivasothi (Instructor, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, NUS; Coordinator, NUS Raffles Museum Toddycats; National Cordinator, International Coastal Cleanup Singapore).
An educator, researcher and conservationist since he joined NUS as an undergraduate more than two decades ago, for more information about his projects, please see:

http://chekjawa.nus.edu.sg/
http://coastalcleanup.nus.edu.sg/
http://toddycats.rafflesmuseum.net/
http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/
http://mangrove.nus.edu.sg/
http://biologyrefugia.blogspot.com/
http://nusbiodiversity.wordpress.com/
http://www.sivasothi.com/


Estimated Duration: 120 mins

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About The Film:

Just weeks after its discovery, residents of Singapore quickly realized that Chek Jawa – one of the last remaining untouched inter-tidal area in Singapore - was doomed for urban development. One final attempt is made by a group of volunteers to preserve Chek Jawa, in their minds and in their hearts. An action leads to an unsuspecting shift in government policy, forever changing the course of nature conservation in Singapore.

Director: Lin Youwei Eric
Genre: Documentary
Running time: 48 mins
Year: 2007
Country: Singapore
Language: English with English subtitles