September 20, 2014

The Singapore on Screen II FASS Short Film competition screened six student-made shorts on March 12th. In the Fiction category, Ghazrizal Azry Ghazali Nor won both the Critics’ Choice and Viewers’ Choice awards for his simple yet deep “★ or ✗?”, which questions how we depict what we see. Cai Hui Bin‘s nostalgic documentary “Old Times – Singapore’s Provisions Shops” won the Viewers’ Choice for the Non-Fiction Category. Finally, “Jia(K)”, Lim Bing Li’s delicious exploration of hawker centres, won the second Critics’ Choice prize.

“Wai Xing Ren (‘Alien’)”, one of the runners up for Fiction, focuses on a foreign student’s difficulty fitting in, while the other runner-up, “Letters Home”, movingly depicts a would-be immigrant writing to his father back home. Non-fiction runner-up “Singapore River in Foreign Films” illustrates how the river has changed and been portrayed in Saint Jack (1979), Where the Seagull Flies (1974), Avanthan Manithan (1975), and 2000 AD (2000).

Please click the linked titles above to view the winning films on NUS’s YouTube channel.

We are looking forward to showcasing more FASS students’ filmic works on Singapore next year for Singapore on Screen III!

Dean Brenda Yeoh and Cai Hui Bin.

Dean Yeoh with Ghazrizal Azry Ghazali.

Dean Yeoh and Lim Bing Li.