THE TEAM
We are a team of final year students from NTU School of Art, Design & Media, working on our thesis film, Take Me Home.
Learn more about us and our journeys below.
Kylen is an avid writer and filmmaker. She is currently
pursuing a filmmaking degree in the School of Art, Design and Media in Nanyang Technological University and is in her final year. Her recent work The Greatest Adventure To Nowhere (2020) won Best Screenplay in the National Youth Film Awards. Her short film OFOES (2017) made a showcase in Geofences, an exhibition space by artist Teow Yue Han in Singapore Art Week 2020. She started her filmmaking journey in 2014 with a Diploma in Creative Writing for TV and New Media, where she ended up working on The Leon Theory, a series commissioned by Big Three Media. Leading a team, her piece The Little Durian Tree, bagged the title of the Scholastic Picture Book Award in 2017 as part of the Asian Festival of Children’s Content.
Kylen Ho, Writer & Director
With a portfolio of photographs and a mind full of movies but no clue about how they were made, Deryck was selected for a place at Nanyang Technological University’s School of Art, Design and Media where he discovered Cinematography and have soon begun diving deeper into his craft. He is motivated by the story, to which it is the driving force behind his work, and at the heart of his career that began within the camera department working on weddings, commercials & short films.
Deryck Tan, Producer
Wind is an aspiring filmmaker based in Singapore. He started his filmmaking experience back in 2014 as a technical crew for a documentary drama set. Since then, his interest in both directing and cinematography also grew. After serving his national service, Wind freelances as an Assistant Director at Filmmall Pte Ltd for a year before pursuing his degree in Nanyang Technology University, School of Art, Design & Media. That year, he worked on projects for Channel News Asia, Singapore Police Force and Asian Food Channel (currently known as Asian Food Network). Currently, Wind is pursuing his studies in filmmaking at the School of Art, Design and Media in Nanyang Technological University. Despite his serious and cold demeanour on shoots, giving him a cup of Milo would instantly defrost that icy facade.
Wind Loke, Director of Photography
Lim Zhong Wei is an artistic art director with an eye for aesthetic and practical visuals. She strives to share her part of the story through visual treatments to define a better mise-en-scène in films. Coming from a design background, she studied Visual Communication and Visual Merchandising before pursuing filmmaking in University. Her internship experiences includes working as a Visual Communication Designer in IKEA and also working part-time as a freelance graphic designer. Her art directing journey started during University, when she gets the opportunity to take on the role as an art director for one of Viddsee’s original production; “Under the Five Trees”, as well as BBC’s Donal Skehan’s TV show; “Meals in Minutes”. Her strong visual instincts is often fed by dozen of Pinterest boards and tons of Tumblr repost. Maybe, that’s the reason why she stays in a washroom for hours.
Lim Zhong Wei, Production Designer
Sound design either makes or breaks a film. This is the very reason why Ravin is intrigued by the idea of any film’s soundscape! Ever since he went to film school, he has worked tirelessly to incorporate the best audio hardware with software to create the perfect mood needed for the film.
K. Ravindran, Sound Designer
Wong Jin Cheng is a filmmaker and content creator who shoots, edits his own films. He mostly travels to shoot and documents the cultures and wonders of the world. He has also worked with marketing agencies and brands such as Capitaland, Honeycombers, Boulevard and etc to produce digital content. Wong Jin Cheng graduated from Singapore Polytechnic in visual effects and motion graphics and went on to serve as a new media specialist as a videographer and photographer for the Singapore Armed Forces for two years. He is now pursuing a degree in NTU Art Design And Media and has taken multiple roles as an editor.
Wong Jin Cheng, Editor
Chul has directed three feature films which have been distributed in theaters nationwide in South Korea. The most recent fiction, "The Return" (2017), won the Golden Zenith Award, winner in the First Fiction World Competition at the 41st Montreal World Film Festival. His two nonfictional feature films, "Ari Ari the Korean Cinema" (2012) and "Mira Story" (2015), which made a national controversy in South Korea by raising the critical views on the role of the government and capitalistic power in filmmaking and local community respectively, and have been screened in international film festivals in Paris, Bhutan, Busan, Seoul, and Irvine.