PRISM Short Film Festival
The first PRISM UBD Short Film Festival organised by the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FASS) took place in Lecture Hall 2 in the ICTC building at UBD on Saturday, 21st April 2018.
The one-day event had two screening sessions (morning and afternoon) that showcased a total over forty short works including all the major media genres (animation, documentary, experimental, fiction, and public service advertisement).
All the short films that were screened were produced by UBD undergraduates as the final project of their in the modules:
- AC-4308 Communication & Pop Culture (Lecturer: Ms. Mayyer Ling)
- AC-4309 Short Film-making (Lecturer: Dr. Yong Liu)
- AR-4202 Capstone Project (Lecturer: Mr. Osman Hj Mohammad)
- AR-3303 Digital Photography & Videography (Lecturer: Dr. Yong Liu)
- AR-3301 Introduction to 3D Animation (Lecturers: Mr. Osman Hj Mohammad and Dr. Yong Liu)
Local filmmakers Nurain Abdullah and Harlif Hj Mohamad from Regalblue Production, and Adam Groves (Break, Primajaya) attended the morning screening; in the ‘Professional Comments’ section following the morning screening, they offered their comments about the short films, giving invaluable advice to the student filmmakers for their future career development.
A 15-minute special feature about the first edition of UBD Short Film Festival in concert with the topic about how to discover the young creative talents in Brunei will be broadcast in the daily morning variety and current affair show Rampai Pagi by RTB in the near future.
Some of the short films screening in the UBD Short Film Festival will represent UBD at the 11th Shanghai Student Film and Television Festival (SSTVF), which is a sub-programme of the worldwide A-class Shanghai International Film Festival held in June 2018 in Shanghai, China.