The artistic creations of talented Art, Design & Media students get noticed at the Safety@Work Creative Awards and the European Union Film Festival.

Watch out - students from the School of Art, Design & Media (ADM) are stealing the show.

On 15 May, a pair of second-year students, twin brothers Henry and Harry Zhuang, snagged a top accolade when they won the Gold Award and a cash prize of $5,000 at the 5th Safety@Work Creative Awards, organised by the Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Council and Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd.

Their pièce de résistance? A one-minute stop-motion animation, Story About My Dad, which uses paper-cut animation as a medium to convey the theme of safety at work. Winning in the Digital Animation category of the competition, the duo will have the pleasure of seeing their work turned into a safety resource for organisations, made available through the WHS Council.

According to Henry, twinship has its privileges. "It makes it easier to discuss the animation as we stay under the same roof… and we have a good understanding of each other's likes and dislikes." The brothers, who have undergraduate scholarships under the Media Development Authority's Media Education Scheme, have excelled at other animation competitions such as Digicon 6+3 (Singapore).

Two other student submissions from ADM – one by Fung Chun Hong and Derwin Silamaya Suhali, and the other by Goh Hui Ying - were also recognised at the Safety@Work Creative Awards with commendations.

Curtain-raiser at the 19th European Union Film Festival
More proof that ADM students take the art of creating seriously. For the first time ever, seven short films by ADM students were showcased at the 19th European Union Film Festival, which ran from 7 to 17 May at Golden Village, VivoCity, and had RAdm Lui Tuck Yew, Acting Minister for Information, Communications & the Arts, as the guest-of-honour.

The students' works were presented before feature films by some of the most established European filmmakers today, with the opening film, Wolf, from Sweden, accompanied by Sacred Crane Mortal Birds, a wildlife documentary shot in the Tibetan plateau of Shangri-La and put together by ADM students Boo Xinying, Kenny Tan and Joseph Peng.

Six other short films by our students were also screened before acclaimed films from member countries of the European Union. They are Mother's Cries by Pu Ziyang, Pang Sai Palace by Pat Pot, Nineteen Twenties by Elgin Ho, Mu Gui Ying by Lincoln Chia and Michael Tay Hong Khoon, Wet Season by Michael Tay Hong Khoon, and Fragrance of White Chrysanthemum by Lincoln Chia.

The inclusion of these short films by NTU students in an international film festival is a testament to their impressive potential in the world of film-making. In fact, productions by the school's film students have been screened at top film festivals around the world such as the Pusan International Film Festival, Festival de Cannes, The Singapore International Film Festival, Italy's 23rd Torino Film Festival and the Sundance Festival.

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