Nicole Midori Woodford (b. 1986) is a Singaporean film director and writer. She is an alumna of Berlinale Talents, Asian Film Academy, Torino Film Lab and Talents Tokyo. Her short films such as Permanent Resident (2017) and For We Are Strangers (2015) have competed in various festivals including the Busan International Film Festival, the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and the Singapore International Film Festival amongst many others. Her debut feature film Last Shadow at First Light, a Singapore-Japan co-production which was selected in Torino Film Lab, Talents Tokyo at Tokyo FILMeX and SEAFIC, was selected to compete at the New Directors section of the San Sebastian Film Festival in 2023. Nicole is a recipient of the prestigious Young Artist Award in 2020 in recognition of her achievements in filmmaking. She is also one of the director-writers for the second season of the acclaimed HBO Asia series Folklore 2, helmed by Eric Khoo. Her episode titled Excursion (2021) was selected to premiere at the series section of the Tokyo International Film Festival. In her works, her exploration of trauma spans from personal violence to the traumatised landscape. Her process involves immersing herself within the physical spaces, tracing encounters through improvisation with her actors to evoke truth and memory.
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