With the financing of a local production company and the setting up of organisations such as the Singapore Film Commission (SFC, set up in 1998), budding filmmakers, especially independent ones, found it easier to make movies on subsidies and loaned funding. The advent of digital video also meant that some novice filmmakers could experiment with cheaper alternatives. Features like "Stories about Love" (2000) and "Return to Pontianak" (2001) were both shot on digital videos, even though they were not commercial successes.