Nominees announced for NYFA 2017
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23 Jun – The National Youth Film Awards (NYFA) 2017 has recently announced the nominees for its 23 award categories.
Winners for each of the category will be announced at the Award Ceremony on Saturday, 22 July 2017.
Some of the main categories being contended are Best Picture, Best Direction, Best Performance and Best Screenplay. A new category is also added this year, the Non-Media Student Category, which allows post-secondary students from non-media courses to take part in the competition.
This year's NYFA marks the third edition for the film awards to be held, following a successful debut back in 2015 and a highly anticipated return in 2016.
Jocelyn Little from Beach House Pictures, Gary Goh from MM2 Entertainment and Wahyuni Hadi from Singapore International Film Festival are among the panel of jurors that will be judging this year's entries.
Here are some of the nominees of National Youth Film Awards (NYFA) 2017:
Best Picture Award
"Red 虹"
"Changi 樟宜"
"A Day's Reunion 圆"
"Trapper"
"Galanthus"
"Paper Roof"
"Gallant"
Best Direction Award
CHAN HONG MIN KENNETH – "Lights! Camera! Act-"
ELENER CHOO KAI XIN – "Azza"
GOH ANSEN – "Disconnected"
HO SAY PENG – "WARD 77"
LIN JUNXIAN SHOKI – "Changi 樟宜"
PNG ZHEN YU – "A Day's Reunion 圆"
JUDITH TONG – "Paper Roof"
Best Performance Award
DELA CRUZ MIGUEL POCHOLO BAUTISTA – "The First Day"
SALIF HARDIE – "Disconnected"
THIA JIA JIE SHAWN – "Lights! Camera! Act-"
CAREY OU – "Changi 樟宜"
LEIANNE TAN JIA YI – "Happy Birthday"
TEO YING SHUANG HAZELLE – "烟话"
WEN LIZONG – "Changi 樟宜"
Best Screenplay Award
CHAN HONG MIN KENNETH – "Lights! Camera! Act-"
CHAN MING WEI KEVIN – "The Shadows that Laugh"
CHANG HUI LING JEANNY – "Cherish"
GOH ANSEN – "Disconnected"
HO SAY PENG – "WARD 77"
PNG ZHEN YU – "A Day's Reunion 圆"
JUDITH TONG – "Paper Roof"
Best Editing Award
LEON TAI CHENG HAO – "A Day's Reunion 圆"
LEON TAI CHENG HAO, LIN JUNXIAN SHOKI – "Changi 樟宜"
TAN HONG REN – "WARD 77"
JUNE TAN YEN JUN – "Timekeeper (時 • 分)"
KAIZER THNG – "Trapper"
JUDITH TONG – "Matilda"
WU BINGYU, CHAN HONG MIN KENNETH – "Lights! Camera! Act-"
Best Sound Editing Award
CHIN YING XUAN IVY – "Plateau"
LABI MICHELLE ANGELI VERGARA – "Princess in Green"
MUHAMMAD BIN ANWAR BAHAJJAJ – "Gallant"
NG YANG MENG – "Galanthus"
JUVEN TAN YONG WEI – "The Shadows that Laugh"
RYAN TEO YEW KIAT – "DELIRIUM"
BRENDA JEAN YONG – "Paper Roof"
Best Animated Film Award
HONG GAH YAIN, GOH WEI LI, XAVI ASENIERO – "The Aisles of Adventure"
JASPER LIU YINGXIAN, BRYAN GOO WAI KIAT, JOLENE CHENG JOO LYNN – "Baozha!"
NG WENG CHI, THERESA LIM YONG YING – "Baraman"
GRACE LAU SIEW YING – "Lovestruck"
HUANG JI, JEREMY TEO JIA MING, DERRICK FUN WEI KIAT – "Eat, Pray, Bird"
JOLENE TAN, PHOEBE TING BEI SHI, HU MIN HAO – "Air"
CELIA YEW, ROSLYN PANG, CHAN SHU XIAN, TAN RUO LIN, HO PIN RU, WANG YA YI, NUR AFIQAH BTE MOHD A'MRAN, NURAQILAH – "PALETTE"
Best Documentary Film Award
NAJAT ALHABSHI – "Unveiled"
GOH CHIEN HUI, SHERRY WONG LIN – "Business as Usual"
CHEN LIWEN SERENE – "DC Composer"
CORINE TIAH, CHEN LIWEN SERENE – "BUANG BAYI – Behind the Baby Hatch"
RUTH SMALLEY, MARK BENEDICT CHEONG TUCK FAI, MATTHEWS HOLLY, YAP CHUN SHU TIARA – "One Track Mind"
IRENE CHAU, YAP JIA WEI, ROY GOH QIAN YU, LENNEY LEONG CHANG ZHEN, BRYAN WONG JING FENG – "Three Strangers in a Room"
LIAN YING, LIU YIYA, LIU ZHI JUAN, WANG YARONG, WANG MANRONG, JAMIEN KAM ZHI JIAN – "中国戏曲在新加坡 Chinese Opera In Singapore"
Non-Media Student Category
HUZAIFAH BIN ABU BAKAR, SHAHKIRIN SHAH – "Perpendicular"
RACHEL SEAH, ONG KAH JING – "The Conservation Conversation"
SIM QIAN HUI – "Iridescent Youth"
YAP WEI LEE – "Dibashram"
CHAI SI HUI – "Untitled (Kafka)"
TAN JIAN YAN – "Double Take"
KHYM FONG – "Mao Shan Wang"
YONG YAN HEE, ONG KAH JING – "Paperboat"
TIMOTHY CHUA ZHI ZHONG – "Fulgent"
TAN SHI YING – "Uncle Tommy"
