SFYC Youth Showcase Top 11 Finalist Screening
Session Details
Screening Date & Time:
Doors open: 2.30pm
Screening starts: 2.45pm
Sequence:
- 5 short films
- Panel with directors
- 6 short films
- Panel with directors
Language: English
Total session time including 2 panels: 2hr 25min
About the Short Film Youth Competition Youth Showcase
The silent struggles have to be given a voice.
The more stories we can shed light on, the more we can work together to build a compassionate, inclusive society.
Make a short film on mental health and ignite change through your story.
This competition features workshops with film industry experts to provide the ins and outs of filmmaking and mental health organisations to provide accurate and precise information about Singapore’s mental health landscape.
COMPETITION THEMES
Short film (of no more than 15 minutes) feature at least one of the topics:
- CARING FOR SELF AND/OR OTHERS
- “Caring for Self and/or Others” centers around the fundamental concept of nurturing and promoting well-being, not only for oneself but also extending that care to others. It encompasses a range of interconnected aspects related to self-care, empathy, support systems, and community well-being.
- COPING AND GROWING
- “Coping and Growing” encapsulates the journey of individuals facing challenges, adversity, or significant changes in their lives. It reflects the dual process of dealing with difficult circumstances while simultaneously finding ways to develop and evolve on a personal or collective level.
- “Coping and Growing” encapsulates the journey of individuals facing challenges, adversity, or significant changes in their lives. It reflects the dual process of dealing with difficult circumstances while simultaneously finding ways to develop and evolve on a personal or collective level.
- CREATIVE EXPERIMENTATIONS IN MENTAL HEALTH
- “Creative Experimentations in Mental Health” explores innovative and artistic approaches to understanding, addressing, and destigmatizing mental health issues. It encourages a departure from traditional narrative methods and embraces novel, creative avenues to foster awareness, empathy, and healing through the medium of film.
- “Creative Experimentations in Mental Health” explores innovative and artistic approaches to understanding, addressing, and destigmatizing mental health issues. It encourages a departure from traditional narrative methods and embraces novel, creative avenues to foster awareness, empathy, and healing through the medium of film.
- INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
- “Intergenerational Relationships” centers on the connections, interactions, and shared experiences between individuals of different age groups within families, communities, and societies. It recognizes the value of fostering understanding and collaboration across generations and highlights the richness that comes from the exchange of perspectives, wisdom, and support.
- Reconciling different perspectives on mental health
- The experience of caregivers could also be the focus of this theme.
More information:
The YOUTH SHOWCASE Category is open to:
- Youths 35 years old and below, adults, and students currently enrolled in full-time education in Singapore.
- This category is open to budding filmmakers who are still new to filmmaking
- Youths who are enrolled in a filmmaking/media course OR have experience in filmmaking are strongly encouraged to submit their films in the Open Competition Category.
- Singaporean/PR or youth with a valid long-term pass (e.g. EP/SP/LTVP). Proof of identity for verification may be required and must be produced upon request.
- Short Films (15 mins or less) made after March 2023 that are related to the competition themes are eligible for submission.
Trailer
About the Director
Tan Pei Lin is a documentary filmmaker who believes in the transformative power of stories. She has produced TV documentaries across Asia, covering topics from petroleum megastructures to refugee homes.
Specializing in social issues and mental health in Southeast Asia, “Lady!” is her first feature documentary. Inspired by life’s subtleties, she is an adrenaline junkie with a passion for bouldering and baking. Pei Lin aims to create more films exploring the human condition.
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SFYC Youth Showcase Top 11 Finalists
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An in-person post-screening chat with the directors will happen as a part of the screening session.
SFYC Open Competition Top 11 Finalists
Presenting the Top 11 finalists for the Mental Health Film Festival Singapore’s Short Film Youth Competition Open Competition Category.
An in-person post-screening chat with the directors will happen as a part of the screening session.
Neurotypes
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A hybrid post-screening chat with the director, as well as local panellists, will follow the screening.
Love Bound
An intimate film by Vibe Mogensen exploring parents’ struggles to balance their children’s needs with their own well-being, highlighting unconditional love and the uncertainty of caregiving within an overburdened welfare system.
An in-person post-screening panel will follow the screening.
LADY!
A moving documentary directed by Tan Pei Lin on young-onset dementia and its emotional impact on loved ones.
An in-person post-screening chat with the director will follow the screening.
Deep Sea (深海)
In “Deep Sea”, directed by Tian Xiaopeng, a girl strays into the dreamy sea world where she faces her dark past and deeply-veiled secrets.
An in-person post-screening panel will follow the screening.
All The Long Nights
Two work colleagues: he suffers from panic attacks, she has extreme PMS. Their company distributes toy planetariums. What may not sound like Ozu Yasujirō is actually precisely that: people are attentive and do each other good, without even realising.
An in-person post-screening panel will follow the screening.
A Bunch of Amateurs
A thoughtful documentary directed by Kim Hopkins features a group of elderly filmmakers who bond over their common love for the art, their bond transcending love, sickness and even death itself.
A hybrid post-screening panel with the director as well a local panellists will follow the screening.