MUMBAI:Two-time Academy Award winner Tom Hanks will grace Singapore‘s first international film event, Screen Singapore, in June for the Asia Pacific premiere of his film, Larry Crowne.

The dramatic comedy co-written and directed by Hanks and Julia Roberts is about a everyday guy‘s personal re-invention after he loses his job during the recession. It will premiere at the week-long ScreenSingapore‘s closing night gala on 11 June. 

The event will open with a Chinese film and will also feature some Bollywood films.

"It will be easier for a film to be noticed. We‘re not a regular film festival, we don‘t have 50 or 60 films. We don‘t have lots of clutter, which makes a film festival," said member of the Board of ScreenSingapore Dennis Davidson .

"We will be something different, it‘s a hybrid. It will be business-to-business, government-to-government. But the sexy bit is the red carpets! It‘s having big Bollywood stars, big Chinese stars, big Korean stars and big Hollywood stars on the red carpet," he added.