This year’s Special Focus shines a spotlight on the Chua Mia Tee: Directing the Real exhibition at the Gallery. Chua was a social realist artist and often referred to filmmaking when describing his approach. Two Singapore artists were invited to, through the lens of film, respond to discourse about Chua’s use of realism as an artistic style. In this section, their responses are presented: a newly-commissioned short film entitled Singapore–A Growing Nation by artist Robert Zhao Renhui, and Social Realist Turns in Singapore Filmmaking (1950s–1980s), a series of talks and screenings conceived by artist-filmmaker and independent researcher Toh Hun Ping.