ATF Spotlight: Media Development Authority of Singapore

SINGAPORE: From Infinite Studios, HBO Asia and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) comes the detective drama Serangoon Road.

Infinite Studios is among the companies supported by the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA). “The collaboration with HBO Asia and ABC TV has been great,” says Yeo Chun Cheng, the assistant chief executive of industry at the MDA. “We’d like to do more of those. We’re seeing a lot of local stories that appeal well to an international audience. Serangoon Road is a story set in Singapore in the ’60s, but it’s very international and a lot of work went into the research of that period, the way of life and culture. We saw a side of Singapore we’ve never seen ourselves! It’s quite refreshing.”