A Yellow Bird

K. Rajagopal has won the Singapore International Film Festival’s Special Jury Prize for three consecutive years with his short films: I Can’t Sleep Tonight (1995), The Glare (1996) and Absence (1997). In 2010, he wrote and directed Timeless, a short film commissioned by the National Museum of Singapore which won Best Cinematography and Best Editing at the 2011 Singapore Short Film Awards. In 2015, his short film The Flame was part of the SG50-commissioned omnibus feature film 7 Letters, which had its Asian premiere at the Busan International Film Festival. His debut feature film, A Yellow Bird, premiered at the 55th Critics' Week, Cannes Film Festival in 2016 and won Best Film at the ASEAN Film Awards 2017.

Sivakumar Palakrishnan is a life-long learner. An award-winning actor who has represented Singapore at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, not to mention a consummate film producer and maker, he has contributed to the education sector by imparting practical knowledge to Singapore’s new breed of filmmakers. A true pracademic—as the education profession terms him to be. Sivakumar has also touched the lives of many young people in Singapore, especially the Indian community. He is a familiar face on local television, as well as an active and enthusiastic educator in Singapore cinema off-screen.