National Youth Film Awards winners announced1 min read
Reading Time: 2 minutesA drama about a man who travels to Korea to seek out the parents of a girl whom his son killed in a hit-and-run accident won top honours on Saturday (Jul 23) at the second National Youth Film Awards (NYFA). The film, titled Han, won the DBS Best Picture award for Shammini Gunasegaran and the team, who all hail from Nanyang Technological University (NTU). The film also took home the Best Direction award for Jonathan Choo, who is doing a BFA in Digital Filmmaking at NTU. It is a personal feather in the cap for Choo, who was a nominee from last year’s NYFA but went home empty handed. Choo wrote Han with his father, Mediacorp actor Zhu Hou Ren, in mind, and has his father in the starring role.
The NYFA is a film-making competition organised by *SCAPE and local film project consultancy management and training company Sinema Media, which aims to establish a benchmark in national excellence and talent identification between the film industry and Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) that offer film-related and animation courses. This year, the NYFA is presented by DBS Bank Singapore, marking the official launch of the local bank’s collaboration with *SCAPE to engage, celebrate, and support youth in diverse fields, including film.
via: Channel NewsAsia
Image Credit: *SCAPE
