Turns out the Singapore Short Film Awards Best Soundtrack category was meant for the overall sound – design, mix, music etc. And Newton won! Yay!

Congratulations to Ho Tzu Nyen, director, and Matthew Koh, co-sound designer, as well!

I must admit I was in complete shock when Newton was announced as winner. Really stumped. By the time I found my way to the stage, I realised for the first time that I had a problem with public speaking – I was shaking. And there were so many things I felt I should’ve mentioned in retrospect – how sound is ever so important but always neglected, that it should really be considered in pre-production and not treated as the last hope for salvation for any film, how everything sound-based is so intertwined that the location sound recordist, sound designer, sound mixer and the composer should be nominees too for the award and why everyone should hire me etc. But I didn’t. Oh well…

Dirty Bitch was the biggest winner bagging home 2 awards for Best Fiction and Best Director! Congrats Sun! And congratulations to the other winners!

Best Director Sun Koh – Dirty Bitch

Best Animation Tan Wei Keong – Hush Baby

Best Fiction Sun Koh – Dirty Bitch

Best Documentary Vicknesh Varan – Special Pass

Best Cinematography Chananun Chotrungroj – Sink

Best Editing Jack Haycox 5 Films in an Anthology of a Film a Month

Best Script Loo Zihan – Threshold

Best Art Direction Rene Pannevis – Rare Fish

Best Soundtrack Newton – Ho Tzu Nyen, Matthew Koh & Lim Ting Li

Best Performance Not Given

Honorary Award Royston Tan

I’m officially an ‘award winning’ audio engineer! Woohoo!

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