AAYFF 2022 Audience Award
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Staring Contest
Harvey Vandermeer
Tanglin Trust School, Singapore
My name is Harvey Vandermeer, I am 11 years old - I am Australian and Indonesian, but live in Singapore, where I attend Tanglin Trust School. I started animations about 2 years ago and absolutely love it. I learnt by myself and together with some friends - I love using my imagination and having fun with animations.
Airport Operations
Aaryan MitraTanglin
Aaryan Mitra is currently a student in Year 5 of Tanglin Trust School, Singapore. He is an avid reader, and does a variety of activities like gymnastics, swimming and filming. He also has a keen interest in aviation, and has built a collection of model aeroplanes. Airport Operations is his debut film, combining his passion for film and aviation, talking about how airports work, and what happens to make your flight possible.
Medical Mayhem
Aarav Kaul
Tanglin Trust School, Singapore
Aarav Kaul is from Tanglin Trust School in Singapore and has been in this school for approximately 9 years. He has been doing YouTube for about two years now. His interest in making short videos has been with him for many years with the main topics being stunts, drawing and his friends. The stop motion was actually once a task for school and then he got interested in stop motion and this particular video was made with my brother's Playmobil toys.
“Consequence”
Lyn Techakraisri, Prim Chantaraprapab, Marianna Santucci, Krystal Arts, Ryli Ikeda, Freddie Jameson and Pita Saelim
Shrewsbury International School Bangkok Riverside Thailand
The team are seven aspiring students, currently studying year seven at Shrewsbury International School Bangkok Riverside. Over the course of a few weeks, they worked closely together, alongside their encouraging teacher Mrs Lucy Brookes, organizing the arrangements of the film; recording and discussing evaluations, whilst developing critical thinking skills, and bonding over new friendships. “This experience was amazing - I learnt about filmmaking, made new friends, and I had fun.”- states Lyn, director. And, a remarkable experience it was, cultivated with memories the students will never forget.
All Eyes On You
Angeleen Magullion
Tanglin Trust School, Singapore
My name is Angeleen Magullion, I am 10 years old and attend Tanglin Trust School. I enjoy playing cricket, reading and writing suspense stories, and also making short films.
When I was 8, I wrote my first book set during the Great Plague of 1664; I'm now writing my next story! I have also made some short videos - a cricket video promoting staying safe during Covid-19; a magician's shop with magic potions; a film about aliens invading Earth, and finally my spy suspense film "All Eyes on You!" The message behind this film is to promote being vigilant to the threats of hidden surveillance, even when doing ordinary routines in your own home.
LitterBug
Arman Magaz
Tanglin Trust School, Singapore
Arman, who is Spanish and Indian, and born in London, has been living in Singapore for the past 9 years. He is passionate about acting and editing his own videos. He also enjoys reading – from novels to manga -, tennis, swimming and playing the guitar. When he grows up he wants to work in the creative arts.
The Unknown
Madison Hollingworth
Tanglin Trust School, Singapore
My name is Madison Hollingworth and I’m from Tanglin Trust School, Singapore. I started taking film as a subject in 2020, but I had an interest in film long before then. I entered the AAYFF 3 years in a row, being shortlisted each time, this being my fourth year. Not only do I enjoy the creative process behind making the film, but I also look forward to the technical side as well. Being in the film industry has been my dream for a long time and I am excited to pursue that in the future.
Into The Mist
Harini Thiyagarajan Chloe Wan
King George V School, Hong Kong
My name is Harini Thiyagarajan and I am a film student at King George V School. Filmmaking is one of my passions, and I enjoy making films and watching movies in my free time. In order to make this film, I worked alongside my friend, Chloe Wan. The inspiration for this film originated from a student-made film which my teacher recommended called The Blair Witch Project.
It gives both Harini and I immense pleasure for our film to be screened in the Across Asia Youth Film Festival 2022 and showcase what we have produced during the phase of online learning. Being able to represent King George V School in this event not only recognises our passion for filmmaking but also encourages us to continue giving our best efforts in our future productions. We hope you would enjoy our submission which imitates Tim Burton’s style of modern expressionist aesthetics to add on to the psychological horror film.
Uneasy
Sarah Field
Shanghai American School Puxi China
Currently, a senior at Shanghai American School Puxi Campus, Sarah Field is a prospective filmmaker that believes in advocacy for Asian American filmmakers and encouragement for on-screen exposure of AAPIs. She wishes to continue her studies of Film in college in hopes of bringing more attention to celebrating authentic cultural diversity in Film and Media.
Purity
Enxi Zheng Jiexi Zhang
Canadian International School, Singapore
As a part of the Canadian International School community in Singapore, my team is glad to have the opportunity to take part in this event. My production team is made up of two people, my partner, Jiexi, and me. We worked together as scriptwriters. I was the director, the editor, and the sound designer while Jiexi was the cinematographer. As filmmakers, we enjoy the process and we are confident in what we have created. We deliver social messages in our film and we believe this could impact the audience to reflect upon the society.
Username: Jean
Derek Xue, Kevin Sherman, Timothy Tang, Sarah Fan, Elena Jiang, Becky Zhong, Phoebe Tseng, Matthew Cline
Shanghai American School Puxi, China
Our team is composed of student-filmmakers attending high school at Shanghai American School. We were brought together in our IB Film class and proceeded to work on films like this one for class assignments as well as inter-school competitions. Although each member of the team has different aspirations beyond high school, we share a passion for filmmaking that allowed Username: Jean to become possible.
Ghost Girl & Paper Boy
Muhammad Revi Arzandha, Farrel Asalas, M. R. Arzandha
Indonesian Institute of Arts, Yogyakarta Indonesia
We are an Indonesian production team that consist of a director (Muhammad Revi) from Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Yogyakarta, as well as a producer (Farrel Asalas) and a screenwriter (M. R. Arzandha) from Jakarta Institute of Arts, in collaboration with Analogi Productions, Bandung. Our collaboration produces a short film titled 'Ghost Girl & Paper Boy' that explores insecurity caused by beauty standards of modern society. We hope that our short film can help and inspire those who resonate with it.
A Play of Doubt and Shadows
Tiara Alfina Zulvia, Muhammad Revi, Xantia Askandar, Naufal Manaf, Dea Dikari, Safir Aksel
Indonesia Institute of The Arts of Yogyakarta Indonesia
Born under the wing of Indonesian Institute of the Arts of Yogyakarta, Dorfader Production is a solid team consisting of six passionate film students from said campus who aspire to captivate the world with the universal language of audiovisuals along with the emotions it provokes through the screen. A Play of Doubt and Shadow was Dorfader's first short film with Tiara Alfina Zulvia as the producer, Muhammad Revi as the director, and Xantia Askandar as the writer. The other three members of Dorfader are Naufal Manaf as sound recordist, Dea Dikari as gaffer, and Safir Aksel as editor.
Eggs & Bacon
Sarah Field
Shanghai American School Puxi, China
Currently, a senior at Shanghai American School Puxi Campus, Sarah Field is a prospective filmmaker that believes in advocacy for Asian American filmmakers and encouragement for on-screen exposure of AAPIs. She wishes to continue her studies of Film in college in hopes of bringing more attention to celebrating authentic cultural diversity in Film and Media.
Less Than 10 Out of 100
Yanisa Promkaewtor
United World College South East Asia (East Campus))Singapore
Yanisa Promkaewtor is a Thai student currently in her first year of her IB diploma and living in Singapore as of 2021. Throughout her life, film has always been a hobby and recently has begun to take on a bigger role in her life. Her travelling background allows her to pursue her passion and gain a new appreciation and insight for her own culture which has manifested itself in the perspectives and the style of her film.
Gardening At The End of The World
Jacob Ren
Shanghai American School Puxi, China
Jacob Ren is a rising senior at Shanghai American School Puxi. He’s obsessed with the absurd, the magical, the bizarre, and the surreal in the arts, and tries his best to create them in his own works too.
VOID
Eve Hartley, Nicole Recalde Torres, Linnea Karlsson, Niki Nazareno
International School Manila, Philippines
In this dark comedy from International School Manila, a girl tries to fill the void, by whatever means necessary.