Singapore to Take 'More Flexible Approach' to Dialect Films, Open to More Teochew Screenings of Dear You

Singapore to take 'more flexible approach' to dialect films, open to more Teochew screenings of Dear You

“We remain open to facilitating and supporting further Teochew screenings should the distributor wish to apply for them, in response to audience interest,” said the Ministry of Digital Development and Information.

All additional screenings of Teochew movie Dear You sold out within 1½ hours of sales starting

All eight screenings between June 25 and 29 have sold out on Golden Village's website. Read more at straitstimes.com.

‘Overwhelming’ demand sparks extra Teochew shows for Dear You in Singapore

The decision comes after all eight of the Chinese migration film’s previously announced Teochew-language screenings sold out.

Up to 50 more Teochew screenings of 'Dear You' possible after MDDI says it's open to further applications

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IMDA open to more Teochew screenings of hit movie Dear You, 'encouraged' by growing local interest in dialects

The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) is receptive to facilitating more Teochew-language screenings of popular Chinese movie Dear You, if the film distributor wishes to apply for more, the industry regulator said on Monday (June 22).This comes amid public pushbacks for the film to be screened in its original dialect instead of the Mandarin-dubbed version meant for commercial release here,...

My fellow Singaporeans, "Dear You" wasn't meant for us. What happens when it is?

Another nation’s cultural production should not become custodian of Singaporeans’ deepest feelings about ancestry, dialect, and belonging. Dear You (给阿嬷的情书) has become a lightning rod of Singapore’s most charged cultural debate in years: Whether the Infocomm Media Authority was right to require a Mandarin dub under a 1979 Speak Mandarin Campaign policy that had long since done its job: Households using Chinese dialects as their primary language …