Nicole Midori Woodford

Nicole Midori Woodford is a Singaporean film director, writer and editor. She is an alumna of Berlinale Talents, Asian Film Academy, Torino Film Lab and Talents Tokyo. Her short film, Permanent Resident, was selected in many festivals including Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and Busan International Film Festival. It investigates the paradoxes of Singaporean modern identity through a middle-aged woman and a manmade monolith. Her latest short film, Tenebrae, was produced in 2018 by Fran Borgia as part of an omnibus featuring upcoming Southeast Asian directors. Inspired by the decline of Singapore's architectural monoliths, her film was shot in Pearl Bank Apartments just before its demolishment. The short film explores the volatility of a cityscape subject to relentless redevelopment. Nicole wrote and directed the Singaporean episode for the second season of the critically acclaimed HBO Asia series FOLKLORE 2. It made its world premiere at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2021. Her debut feature film project, Last Shadow At First Light, was selected in the SEAFIC lab, Southeast Asian Lab at SGIFF, Torino Film Lab, Talents Tokyo and Asian Project Market. Her project was awarded several development awards including the Open SEA Fund award, SEAFIC-TFL award, TFL's Co-Production award and the Kongchak Studio award. Nicole’s feature film explores the cyclical nature of traumas through the impacted land and its residents that transcends boundaries and borders. Her works also gravitate towards the bonds between strangers and surrogate families. Her feature film is now in postproduction. Nicole was the FYP supervisor who mentored the students for two FYP thesis films, Adam, which premiered in Cinefondation at Cannes Film Festival in 2019 and Paper Roof which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2018. She was also honoured as the mentor of her student with the Koh Boon Hwee Scholars Award in NTU in 2019 and was awarded the prestigious Young Artist Award in 2020.