Ang Geck Geck Priscilla’s first feature won the Asian film competition at Singapore’s Silver Screen Awards. The childhood drama returns to a festival development programme where it was workshopped in 2015. Shahrbanoo Sadat took the directing award at the same ceremony, held as the festival approached its November 1 close.
Singaporean filmmaker Ang Geck Geck Priscilla won the Asian Feature Film Competition at the Singapore International Film Festival with her debut, Ah Girl. The Silver Screen Awards ceremony took place at Singtel Waterfront Theatre on the penultimate day of the festival. The film follows a seven-year-old girl in Singapore in the 1990s after her parents separate. The main competition is dedicated to Asian cinema.[1], [2]
Ang developed the project at the festival’s Southeast Asian Film Lab in 2015. Ah Girl subsequently received the Youth Jury Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.[1]
Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat received best director for No Good Men, a drama about a camerawoman in Kabul before the Taliban return to power. Pushpa Thing Lama, for Elephants in the Fog, shared the performance award with Putri Marino, for Four Seasons in Java. Japanese director Nagahisa Makoto’s Burn took the Special Jury Prize. The festival’s 37th edition ends on November 1; its Silver Screen Awards began in 1991. Arief Budiman’s Golden Island won the Southeast Asian short film competition, while Sarah Lingam received the short-film performance award for Flame of the Forest.[1], [2]
