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Victoria Singh-Thompson
Biography
VICTORIA SINGH-THOMPSON is a queer biracial writer & director based in Sydney. Since graduating the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) in 2017 with BA in Screen, Victoria has gone on to be a 2019 finalist for the Sundance Ignite Fellowship supported by the Sundance Institute and nominated for Young Australian Filmmaker of the Year at the BYIFF 2019.
Victoria’s first short film ‘I Love You’ (2018), an improvised short film with a real-life couple premiered at both international and national festivals including Melbourne Underground Film Festival and was awarded Best Short Drama at the 2019 Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival.
Victoria’s second short film, ‘Swallows’ (2018), a period film about intergenerational trauma premiered in official selection at the 2019 Flickerfest International Film Festival and was nominated for the Australian Young Filmmaker of the Year Award at Byron Bay International Film Festival 2019.
Victoria's third short film 'Cinderella', received the annual SCCI and AFTRS fashion grant. The film starred Bridie McKim (The Heights) and featured fashion label 'Romance was Born'. The film when on to win the Judge's Choice Award at the Focus On Ability Film Festival.
Victoria was recently selected as one of the two international participants to take part in the 2019 Aotearoa Short Film Lab supported by Script to Screen and the New Zealand Film Commission. The script developed 'Don't Forget To Go Home' then had a successful crowdfund campaign. Free the Work's founder Alma Har'el shared the project on her Instagram. The finished short is now having its world premiere at the 2020 Melbourne International Film Festival. It's one of the first-ever Fijian-Indian diaspora stories to be told on our screens.