Category: Category I (Youths – aged 12 to 16)

Team: Serangoon Garden Secondary School Team 2

School: Serangoon Garden Secondary School

Evan, a drug user, struggles with drug addiction until he meets Afik, a spiritual guide who has returned from the afterworld and disguised as a student. Afik helps Evan understand the true nefarious effects of drugs and guides him into living out a more fulfilling life. Soon, Evan starts to realize that Afik may not even exist in his world and he has to find the courage from within himself to break his addiction.

Team: Serangoon Garden Secondary School Team 3

School: Serangoon Garden Secondary School

“Fallen” explores the profound impact of drug addiction beyond the individual, illustrating how one person’s choices can negatively impact their community and society. The story follows Marcus, a student whose addiction leads to a series of negative consequences for his loved ones and others around him. Through Marcus’s journey, the narrative highlights the domino effect of drug abuse, demonstrating how his actions affect his family, friends, and even strangers, showing that drug addiction is far from a personal issue, it leaves a trail of harm that touches many lives.

Team: UMP15

School: Unity Secondary School

Lucas is a model student who started falling behind in his Chinese, as such, he decides to turn to his trusty search engine (Google). He comes across a suggestion, “Drugs” and decides to click on the website. As such, he finds himself soon in a downwards spiral of addiction and helplessness. In the end, he is taken away for rehabilitation as he has made his teachers, friends and family victims of his abuse.

Team: NDA

School: Westwood Secondary School

One fine day after school, a 14-year-old girl stayed behind in school to meet up with a mysterious friend. She got out the money, the friend got out the drugs. With hopes of obtaining a better future, she risked the chance. A few weeks later, problems started occurring with friends, grades and even affecting family members. What will happen in the end?

Team: Team Unity

School: Unity Secondary School

Dan, a young teenage boy in secondary school tries to help save his friend, Jack Tan from a drug addiction and as he does so, he faces many challenges in his way will doing so and meets with a Big hurdle during his confrontation. Will He be able to save his friend?

Team: August 31

School: St. Margaret’s School (Secondary)

A short story about a girl who saves her friend from drug abuse. As their lives unravel and relationships strain, they face the harsh reality of their choices. The girl’s determination to help pulls her friend back from the brink. The film serves as a reminder that drug abuse destroys relationships, dreams, and lives.

Team: Selective Listeners

School: Commonwealth Secondary School

Jia Wei hasn’t been himself. His brother witnesses his slow descent into someone he cannot recognise and cannot help but endure both emotional and psychological trauma as their relationship strains. His other family members have also not been in the greatest state, not knowing what to do and getting no answers from Jia Wei. After months of heartbreak and grief, the family learns the heartbreaking truth when it’s too late.

Team: CHS ION Team A

School: Catholic High School – Singapore

Someone I Used to Know tells the story of a father and son whose inseparable bond starts to fray when the father loses his job. Getting increasingly entangled with stress, he turned to an online chat group through which he became predatory to drug use. He becomes an entirely different person, and along the way, he gradually separates from his son. The father finally comes to his senses and realizes the amount of devastation he has brought on, highlighting how drug abuse is not victimless. The film explores how drug addiction impacts not just the addict but also everyone around him.

Team: Synergy Productions

School: NUS High School of Mathematics and Science

A boy is convinced to take drugs by his friends, and ends up addicted, high, and disfunctional, and ends up affecting everyone around him. In the end, he ends up on the floor, dysfunctional, and it teaches us to not take drugs and to be wary of who pressures you.

Team: Xinmin Secondary School Team 1

School: Xinmin Secondary School

Mia, a Secondary 3 student, lost her brother due to a drug incident. Thus, she started the campaign, named “Break the Chain”, with the aim to stop drugs. One day, she had a friend who found out some information about a drug dealer in the neighbourhood. She used her free time to track down the drug dealer. This was how Mia took small steps as part of the “Breaking the Chain” campaign, to stop the use of drugs in her neighbourhood.