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Jonathan Chong Neng Jie
Filmmaker | Directing Cinematography
+65.9783.2587 / [email protected]
31.07.1986
Education
Present Undergraduate for Bachelor of Fine Arts, Digital Filmmaking
School of Arts Design Media Nanyang Technological University
2006 Diploma in Interactive Media Design
Temasek Design School
Temasek Polytechnic
Filmography
2010 !"(fu qin) [06:33] – Father
Official Selection Asian Hot Shots Berlin
Silver Screen Awards 2010 Non Competition Screening
2009 #(huai) [14:30] – Brown Sugar
Sinema Incubator Program
Substation First Take Screening September 2010
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2006 Rosie [10:00]
Young Guns Screening
Substation First Take Screening
2005 Playground [21:56]
Professional Practice
2010 Nanyang Technological University IXchange TVC
Co-Director & Cinematographer
2010 Popstar Media Music Video, Artist: Meixin
Co-Director & Cinematographer
2009 Ogilvy & Mather | Client- Singtel, Singtelligence Pitch Video
Motion Graphic Artist
2006 Sony Pictures Entertainment, AXN
Assistant Editor
Awards & Accolades
2010 Official Selection Asian Hot Shots Berlin
7th Sino-Singapore Undergraduate Exchange Programme
2007 Commissioned as Officer of the Singapore Armed Forces
Software Skills
Adobe Photoshop CS4, Illustrator CS4, After Effects CS4, Premiere Pro CS4
Apple Final Cut Pro HD 7, Color
Photo still from Short Film 父亲(Fu Qin) – Father (2010)
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Title :父亲(fu qin) – Father Year : 2010 Duration : 06:33 minutes Language : Cantonese with English & Chinese Subtitles Role : Director
Synopsis : An underachieving father and husband seeks reconciliation in his own silent ways.
Director’s Statement : 'Father' takes a dive at the traditional Asian idea of silent love, and the barriers that persist in light of a modern, westernized younger generation.
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Photo still from Short Film 怀 (Huai) – Brown Sugar (2009)
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Title :怀 (huai) – Brown Sugar Year : 2009 Duration : 14:30 minutes Language : Mandarin with English Subtitles Role :Director
Synopsis : Decidedly, this is not a story about overcoming odds. This is a story about closure. The poem to be finished is not about loss, not entirely, but it is about the one thing that they believed in; Love.
Director’s Statement : A story written by a friend of mine which is very dear to him. He asked if I’d like to shoot it into a film and I made the film in my rendition but maintaining the poetry as a form of respect to him.
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Photo still from Short Film Rosie (2006)
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Title : Rosie Year : 2006 Duration : 10:00 minutes Language : English Role : Director/ Cinematographer
Synopsis : The road to Eternal Bliss lies in your hands. Little Rosie took it literally.
Director’s Statement : My graduating film from Temasek Polytechnic. During that phase in my life, the scripts I write revolve around the notion of surrealism and dreams.
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Photo still from Short Film 香烟 (Xiang Yan) (2010)
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Title :香烟 (Xiang Yan) Year : 2010 Duration : 27:00 minutes Language : Mandarin With English Subtitles Role : Cinematographer
Synopsis : A mother and her daughter return home from the crematorium. As the day unfolds, a packet of cigarettes both threatens and strengthens what is left of the family.
Cinematographer : The essence of the lighting in this film was to made as realistic and subtle as possible with a pinch of melancholy in a different way for each scene. Camera was kept as intimate as possible observing each and every moment the two characters share.
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Photo still from Short Film Sikoses (2010)
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Title : Sikoses Year : 2010 Duration : 2:13 minutes Language : English Role : Co-Director / Animator / Sound Designer
Synopsis : An exploration of Travis Bickle’s psychosis, in a remix of Scorsese’s film. The film attempts to show the various stages of this process, starting with isolation, and then giving way to delusions and the questioning of reality, culminating finally in the psychosis itself. This is done through an abstract representation of our protagonist’s psyche.
Director : Using mainly After Effects for the animation segment, we set to depict and reinterpret the scene chosen from Taxi Driver (1976). Using basic geometric shapes for the entire treatment as a form of abstraction and process of breaking it down to the bare minimum.
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