If only this thread was started a couple weeks ago!
I run the post production department, and teach Graduate Film at NYU Tisch Asia in Singapore. New York University's film program is considered one of the best in the world, and count among our alumni many famous directors and oscar award winners (some of them are in our faculty as well). While all of our students here are Masters Degree candidates, we run two special programs in Singapore for high-school students interested in filmmaking.
One,
Future Filmmakers, is for Singaporean High-School Students only, and is completely merit based. We have an interview with each candidate, and if accepted, 16 students will take a 12 week program each saturday in film production at our Singapore Campus. The cost is completely free, we run this program to support young filmmakers in Singapore since this our home now. In fact we give a small cash award to the top three students to fund their first film after we finish the course. This program in New York is sponsored by Bill Cosby, but we're still looking for a local patron here. Unfortunately the deadline for this program passed only two weeks ago! However, make sure your son applies for next year.
More information can be found at our website here.
The second program,
Summer High School is tuition based, and is mainly geared for foreign students to come to Singapore to learn filmmaking and asian culture, however Singaporeans are perfectly welcome to join. This is a month long intensive program, and the students actually are required to live in our dorms, and eat, drink and study filmmaking 24/7 in collaboration with other children. This program is still open, but the tuition cost is about $10,000 US. You can find out
more information about this program here.
We are still very new to Singapore (only opened in 2007), and our publicity for these programs hasn't been very extensive. I hope this helps.
