AAYFF 2018 Festival Posters now available to download!
Featuring artwork from some of last year's films, the #AAYFF2018 festival posters are stunning and also now available to download from the festival site or here.
Please feel free to download the posters and spread word of the Across Asia Youth Film festival at your school or college.
The AAYFF is Back!
Dear Filmmakers and Film fans,
The AAYFF is back! We are already tremendously excited and busy planning the second edition of the Across Asia Youth Film Festival which returns in the new year.
The festival will once more be hosted by Tanglin Trust School from the heart of the media district in Singapore. We are also delighted to announce the continuing support of our partners HBO Asia, Disney and Mediacorp all of whom helped make the AAYFF shine in its inaugural year.
The AAYFF connects talented young filmmakers with the film and media industry and aims to provide more opportunities for young filmmakers to learn from industry professionals and develop their craft. We are therefore thrilled to be including an additional industry experience day of workshops and exclusive experiences organised by our partners which all shortlisted filmmakers will be invited to attend.
Important news will be announced over the coming months, but for now please take note of these key dates:
January 1st 2018
Opening Date For Submissions
March 23rd 2018
Submission Deadline
3rd May 2018
Industry Experience Day
4th May 2018, Tanglin Trust School, Singapore
Gala Screening Date
Please help to share news of the #AAYFF2018 with your friends, students and colleagues by following on social media using the links listed below. If you have any questions feel free to get in touch.
Have a wonderful Christmas break and see you in the new year!
The AAYFF Team
The AAYFF 2017 on HBO!
HBO, Disney, Mediacorp, JTC and the hosts at Tanglin Trust School really helped the AAYFF shine in it's inaugural year. The #AAYFF2017 Gala Screening will be sure to live long in the memory of the young filmmakers who's work was screened and the audience lucky enough to be in attendance. HBO sent a team in to cover the event and here is the TV Spot that went out Across Asia last month.
The AAYFF Gala Screening Event 2017
Many thanks to all of you who helped share word of the festival with your students and help make this event happen. Tomorrow at Tanglin Trust School, thirty two films shortlisted from 274 will be screened before an audience of 500 and an industry jury. Many of the young Singapore based filmmakers will get to meet those travelling in from the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and China. We will have in excess of 100 student filmmakers who submitted films in attendance!
Shortlisted young filmmakers from 17 schools across Asia.
Shortlisted young filmmakers from 17 schools across Asia.
From 6pm the shortlisted films will be made made public via our Facebook page and here on the site. The programme will consist of 32 films by students from 17 schools being screened and then the awards ceremony.
✦ International School of Ho Chi Minh City ✦ Tanglin Trust School ✦ International School of Beijing ✦ UWCSEA, Singapore, ✦ IGB International School Malaysia ✦ International School of Dongguan ✦ QSI Shenzhen, China ✦ Shrewsbury International School Bangkok ✦ International School Manila ✦ Singapore American School ✦ The International School Of Macao ✦ SMK (LKTP) Maokil, Labis Johor, Malaysia ✦ The British International School Shanghai ✦ Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore ✦ Canadian International School ✦ Vientiane International School, Laos ✦ International Bilingual School at Hsinchu-Science-Park ✦
We will also be featuring films during the interval on the live stream which didn't quite make the shortlist, so be sure to share with your students.
✦ Green School, Bali ✦ King George V School, Hong Kong ✦ Dulwich College, Shanghai ✦ Tanglin Trust School ✦ Kellett School, Hong Kong ✦ Yew Chung International School Shanghai ✦
There will be an Audience Award which will be decided by the public voting over a period of a week following the screening. This year's winner will win S$250 kindly donated by the Tanglin Trust School PTA and one of our AAYFF trophies. Voting will open tomorrow at 6pm via our Facebook page and here on the site.
I'm already looking forward to the impact this event will have on youth filmmaking in the region, so when we return with the second edition we can look forward to even more students getting involved and sharing their stories through film.
Kind regards,
David
David Anthony Procter
AAYFF Director
LAST CALL FOR FILMS!
This year's AAYFF will be closing for submissions at the end of the week Sunday 12 March.
The online submission formmust be submitted and films received before this deadline date. Late entries will not be considered.
What happens next?
The shortlisting committee will be meeting on Tuesday 14 March to review all the films and arrive at a final shortlist. Successful submissions will be showcased before public and industry audiences at the 2017 edition of the AAYFF hosted by Tanglin Trust School on 24 March. Filmmakers will hear if their film has made the shortlist before 17 March.
KEY DATES:
Submission deadline: 12 March 2017
Shortlisted films published: 17 March 2017
Festival Gala Screening event: 24 March 2017
All filmmakers submitting to this year's festival will be invited to attend the screening event. to find out more to book a seat click here.
NEVERMIND THE OSCARS – IT’S THE AAYFF SCREENING 2017
The ultimate red carpet student event! seats for the much anticipated aayff screening are now available!
Showcasing the Top 20+ short films with submissions from students at Tanglin and schools across Singapore and Asia.
Supported by Disney, Mediacorp, HBO and JTC, The AAYFF is the first Across Asia Film Festival for young people in age categories from 10-21 years. We have had some incredible short films submitted and the Festival Screening on 24th March promises to be THE MOST GLAMOUROUS event ever held at Tanglin.
Our fantastic judges include, Tom from Disney, CheeK from MediaCorp and Steve from HBO! Great Prizes will be awarded on the night!
This is primarily a student event – it is strictly first come – first served and there are only 300 tickets available. Minimum age 10 years old.
Please click here to book a free online ticket for the student(s) to attend this red carpet event.
The shortlisted films will be announced on Friday 17 March and parents of these filmmakers will also be invited to attend. Seats will be reserved for them.
Event Details
- The fun starts at 5.30pm on Friday 24th March on level 1 of the Nixon Building (Bus Bay like you have never seen it before)
- Expect the event to conclude around 8.30pm
- Dress code – Prom style, Hollywood glamourous
- Bring – a your own water bottle – it is Eco week J
- Delicious food and beverages will be provided
- Minimum age 10 years old
All students will be supervised for the duration of the event.
Meet the Jury Part 3!
The final member of the jury for our screening event is Tom Batchelor, GM - Disney Studios, Southeast Asia.
Tom has spent the past 15 years working in the film industry, firstly spending a couple of years in production before moving over into film distribution. After 9 successful years at Warner Bros in the UK – where he was lucky enough to distribute over 200 films including 5 HARRY POTTER titles and all 3 DARK KNIGHT movies – Tom became Head of Distribution for Walt Disney Studios in the UK and Ireland in early 2013. Since then he’s worked on all of the company’s largest franchises, overseeing the release of 8 Marvel titles, several Pixar and Disney Animation Studios films including BIG HERO SIX, FROZEN and FINDING DORY and last year’s successful THE JUNGLE BOOK and was memorably part of the team that saw STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS become the biggest film of all time in the UK. In November 2016 he relocated from London to Singapore to become Disney’s General Manager of Studios for South East Asia. He is married with 2 children.
A 'Plastic Ocean' screening at Tanglin Trust School
More than 8 million tons of plastic is dumped into our oceans every year. A team of scientists and filmmakers explore its effect on marine ecosystems and human health. Don’t miss this thought-provoking documentary screening at Tanglin Trust School this Friday March 03, 2017
Click here to book tickets for free.
Craig Leeson is an award-winning television presenter and filmmaker. His debut cinematic feature film, “A Plastic Ocean”, which he wrote, directed and executive produced, will be released in cinemas third quarter of 2016. Craig is the CEO of Leeson Media International and Ocean Vista Films and founder of the I Shot Hong Kong Film Festival. He is a television news correspondent, presenter, emcee and public speaker. He began his career as a newspaper journalist before moving to television as a news correspondent and anchor for ABC TV Australia.
Craig has worked with the world’s major broadcasters including BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, PBS, National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel, Bio Channel, Universal, Al Jazeera and the Seven Network. He began his documentary filmmaking career in 1999 and has won the Asia TV Awards for “Rebel Impasse”, on the Maoist rebels of Nepal; “Marco Polo: The China Mystery Revealed”, (National Geographic Channel); and a New York Festivals medal for Best International Affairs Documentary on “The fall of President Suharto”. He has produced and directed NGC’s top Asia television programmes and projects including The Making Of A Gala, GeoWatch Asia, the Top 30 Countdown for NGC’s 10th anniversary special and Earth Day promos shot in multiple countries. He produced and directed Asia’s first extreme sports television series - the Action Asia Challenge – and screened it on two networks simultaneously, NGCI and ESPN. He is the first film director to stage a fashion show at the UN headquarters in Geneva. He is committed to charity work, producing successful fundraising films for Room To Read, Operation Smile, The Sovereign Art Foundation and FilmAid. From Tasmania, Craig is a passionate oceans explorer, surfer and diver. He also plays guitar in a published rock band. He is the fourth generation journalist in his family.
Meet the Jury Part 2!
Meet Steve Burton, Executive Vice President HBO Asia. Steve will join us as the second member of our panel for the AAYFF Gala Screening event on 24 March.
““The TV/movie business in Asia is at an incredibly exciting stage, with a significant increase in investment in the region leading to a rapidly expanding eco-system. The opportunities for people who are passionate about story-telling are better than ever.””
Steve Burton leads the financial management and information systems teams in his role as Executive Vice President of HBO Asia.
Wholly owned by HBO (a Time Warner company), HBO Asia reaches 23 territories across Asia with six 24-hour commercial-free subscription movie channels: HBO, HBO Signature, HBO Family, HBO Hits, Cinemax and Red by HBO. The network also has an internet streaming platform, HBO GO, and a subscription video on demand service, HBO On Demand.
HBO Asia has proprietary and award-winning HBO and HBO Asia Original programmes produced exclusively for HBO viewers. HBO Asia is also the exclusive distributor of BabyFirst and the DreamWorks channel in the region.
Burton joined Singapore-based HBO Asia in 2005 and has been involved in the Pay Television industry for over 25 years, having previously held senior finance roles at Jupiter Telecommunications in Japan, and Telewest Communications in the United Kingdom.