Come Listen.

To Speak is to utter words or articulate sounds with the ordinary voice. But it will be with a voice that is drowned in an age fascinated by zooming car engines and an imploding financial market. In such a time, to speak requires one to be extraordinary - to stand with strength, courage and tenacity. To be loud enough before one’s voice dries up in the throat and one’s existence quietly fades out.

In a film by Australian writer/director Craig Ower, called “To Speak”, tells the story of a girl named Ratana who lives in poverty and suffocating pessimism of her fellow villagers. Like everyone who dreams of a better life, Ratana dreams of building a new and permanent home for her family. When a radical opportunity presents itself to Ratana, her life is taken on a collision course that will question her convictions and challenge her stand with her family, the village and even Mother Nature herself.

Inspired by a true story, To Speak is accompanied with beautiful musical compositions by our late national dragon boater, Reuben Kee.

Lending voice to this production is a chorus of 30 individuals from Campvision’s Expedition Agape who invite you to lend your eyes and your ears, to what Resilience has to say about a people and its culture long silenced by slave camps, killing fields and the Khmer Rouge.

Let us not turn ourselves away.

To Speak will be screened on:
17 October 2008 (Friday), 8.30PM and
26 October 2008 (Sunday), 3.45PM
Venue: Sinema Old School, 11B Mount Sophia Road #B1-12 Singapore 228466
Ticket Cost: $20.00 each (free seating)

*Proceeds from the screening of To Speak will go toward sponsoring youths-at-risk for an empowering overseas service-learning expedition with Family Care Cornerstone Project, a Non-Government Organisation (NGO) based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia dedicated to improving the quality of lives of the underprivileged