ABOUT THE PRODUCTION COMPANY- RICHMANCLUB STUDIOS PTE LTD
Founded by Rich Ho Kok Tai, Richmanclub Studios was registered and incorporated in Singapore on the 6th June 2004 as a motion pictures production company.
Richmanclub Studios’ first official production was the short film, “The Alien Invasion” in 2004, which involved a massive cast of over 80 real-life university students, staff, and faculty. “The Alien Invasion” has been shown around the world, including being the first Singaporean film to be nominated for the “Chinese Oscar”, The Golden Horse Awards 2004 for “Best International Digital Short Film”.
Other awards that the studio had picked up along our journey were a “Special Technical Achievement Award” (Hive Film Festival), “Audience Favorite” (Substation First Take) and an Asia-Pacific wide “Gold Award-Digital Art” (ComGraph).
In May 2006, the studios started building our online theatre and community, with the aim of sharing our short films and future online entertainment series with audiences worldwide. The world’s first full-scale Digital Launch of “The Alien Invasion” has also successfully garnered viewership from over hundreds of thousands through online streaming, and all major digital devices, gaining industry recognition for this innovative means of film distribution.
In 2011, Richmanclub Studios launched 2 additional departments.
Richopus Music (www.richopus.com) was established in 2011 to offer music production services, and
IVI VFX (ivi.richmanclub.com) was setup to provide post production services.
In 2013, Richmanclub Studios is leading an international partnership of SONY, NVIDIA, Nanyang Technological University’s MAGIC, OTOY’s OctaneRender, Muse Pte Ltd, Act-3D B.V., iPi Soft LLC and ISP, in producing the movie “The Boy and His Robot”. Where Richmanclub Studios seeks to create a new film production workflow that is completely based on Graphics Processing Units(GPU), which will potentially revolutionize the film industry.
Registered Company Name: Richmanclub Studios Pte. Ltd.
Registration No: 200406959D
PRESS HELP
If you are a member of the press, or students doing projects, you can find helpful company press information below:Press Releases in PDF:
Press Release on The Alien Invasion’s Golden Horse Nomination (2004)
Press Release about The Alien Invasion’s Worldwide Digital Launch (2006)Also available via email requests are press material for our movies that include:
– Production Information
– High Quality Film Stills and Photographs
– Posters
– Teasers and Trailers
Please send all email requests on the above material to: presshelp@richmanclub.com
If you have any questions or requests not covered by the information above, we are more than pleased to assist you, simply send us an email at: presshelp@richmanclub.com
FAQs
Thanks for your interest in Richmanclub Studios.
We’ve come up with a list of helpful information here. Please take a look. Who knows? Maybe you’ll find the answer you were looking for.
Business Enquiries
1. Does Richmanclub do co-productions? How may I contact you if my company is interested in making a film with you?
2. What sort of business relationships are you interested in?
– Sponsorship and product placements
– New technology testing and adoption
– Film Merchandising
– Postproduction Collaboration
– Film Music Production and Coordination
– Distributors
Or simply email us at rmc@richmanclub.com to have a chat with us.
3. Is it possible for me to obtain a DVD of your demo reel or past works?
Watching Movies and Downloads
1. I can’t watch your films online. What should I do?
2. The film I am watching keeps pausing. What’s happening?
It’ll be great if you could ‘pause’ the player, and do something else to allow the movie to download before viewing, or you could select the ‘download’ options to watch the movie from your local hard drive. Many of the downloadable movie files are in Apple Quicktime format, or Windows Media Video format and have been encoded at a lower resolution to facilitate efficient downloading. Due to the large file size, we have zipped up some of the movie files in the zip format.
Click to download the free VLC Player to play a wide range of video formats: VLC PLayer
Click to download the free 7-Zip to open various zip formats: 7-Zip
3. Is it okay for me to download and burn CDs of the online films on this site?
Links to Richmanclub
1. Can I put a link to your site in my homepage, blog, or forum?
(To download these buttons and banner images for your site, right click on the image you’d like to save the picture)
2. Can I just link a section of your site to my site (e.g. the download page)?
Employment and Internship
1. Does Richmanclub have an internship program or employ talents from overseas?
At the moment we are not employing overseas talents or having any current job openings.
However, you can be kept informed of any job opportunities by emailing us at slavedriver@richmanclub.com
Trivia
1. How did the name “Richmanclub” come about?
To fill up the required credits information, he simply put in the tongue-in-cheek pseudonym, “Richmanclub Studios”.
He eventually continued using “Richmanclub Studios” to brand all the three films he was commissioned by the army.
When we incorporated our company, due to the ease of remembrance(and amusement from the audience), we decided to go with, Richmanclub Studios Pte Ltd.
2. How to spell Richmanclub Studios
“Richmanclub Studios”:
1. Richman Club Studios
2. Rich Man Studios
3. Rich’s Man Club Studios
4. Richmanclub’s Studios
Note: If you write a letter or email to us and spell our name in any of the above mentioned ways, we’ll still answer you.
3. What’s the meaning behind your studio logo?
Other Enquiries
