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

Team: Serangoon Garden Secondary School Team 4

School: Serangoon Garden Secondary School

Our anti-drug misuse video highlights the harmful effects of drug addiction, focusing on its impact on mental health, physical well-being, and social relationships. The story follows a student who, overwhelmed by stress and depression, turns to drugs in hopes of alleviating his problems. However, rather than solving his issues, the drugs worsen them. A concerned friend notices his struggle and steps in to offer support. The video uses dramatized real-life scenarios to emphasize the dangers of drug use, aiming to leave a lasting impression on viewers. It encourages awareness of the negative consequences of drugs, stressing the importance of making informed choices and seeking help when needed. The theme of offering support to those in need is central to the film, as shown by the friend who helps the student overcome his addiction.

Team: KAE Cinematics

School: St. Joseph Instituition

This video is titled “Breathe” to show how breathing in the harmful particles of drugs is no alternative to breathing air and how it only leads to a short time of enjoyment but a long string of chaos. This video illustrates how a student falls prey to the poor influences of his classmate, amidst his crisis of being bullied and alienated, which ultimately leads him to succumb to the temptation of drugs. However a turn of events occurs right at the end when his secret life of drugs is discovered by his innocent sibling. This video underscores the effects of drugs on people, especially students, and how it can and will affect everyone around them, and how one true friend can make a difference.

Team: Sultan

School: Saint Joseph’s institution

A man, who is faced with copious amounts of stress at work and the risk of getting evicted from his home, turns to drugs as a way to cope. However, he finds that his brother gets very angry at him because of the fact that by doing drugs, he has endangered everyone on his family. Especially his son.

Team: CHS I.O.N Team B

School: Catholic High School (Secondary)

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: Swiss Cinematic Drama Guild

School: Swiss Cottage Secondary School

A young girl struggles to understand the sudden changes in her mother’s behavior after she forms a new “friendship”,with amysterious ‘friend’ that consumes her mother’s life. She is forced to understand addiction and making a stand to protect herself and her family bonds. The mother finds out the impact on her family bonds and has yo make a choice, that will change their lives forever.

Team: Chain Breakers

School: Sembawang Secondary School

A boy called “Bryan” was walking back home from school in a lethargic mood and tripped over a book. Since he was already frustrated, he decided to pick up the book and was about throw it until he saw one of the pages that had a picture that looked like him. With curiosity on his mind, he decided to explore the contents of it. So, he opened the book and started reading it. He was then suddenly thrown into the story and greeted by a man with a small ziplock bag in his hand.That was when Bryan realized that the story was about a guy who was offered drugs. There were two choices, yes or no that lead to different pages of the book that will also lead to different outcomes and Bryan has to make the choice. Bryan chose yes and flipped to the page to see what would happen, but everything turned out badly. Bryan was in the news and on the headlines about drug abuse, which sabotaged his friends’ life after college, like getting jobs. His family’s reputation was also ruined because his relatives found out about him doing drug abuse, and made them hate him. As the outcome was not good, Bryan had the chance to rewind back in time to make the right decision.Bryan flipped back to the page where the choices were at and picked no and flipped to that page. This led to go better and happier ending for Bryan.

Team: Wellness Warriors

School: Ahmad Ibrahim Secondary School

“Rise Above” follows a youth who, after taking their first puff of methamphetamine to escape financial troubles, quickly spirals into addiction. The story explores their battle through addiction, arrest, and multiple stints in rehab. Despite setbacks, they take crucial steps toward recovery, facing their demons and learning from their mistakes. The journey highlights the importance of perseverance, support, and self-reflection. Ultimately, the character goes beyond just the initial recovery, embracing a new life committed to staying drug-free and helping others avoid the same pitfalls.

Team: catalyst alliance

School: Ahmad Ibrahim secondary school

A young boy who experiences many problems in school and at home is desperate to seek help from anyone but to no avail.He later then finds help from a drug dealer in his school.After countless drug exchanges and abuses,he is put to a stop by the police and the drug dealer is no where to be found.

Team: KRSS_Hichew

School: Kent Ridge Secondary School

Sweet or Sour is a short film that dives into the impact of a single moment on a man’s life. Billy, now a janitor at his old secondary school, following through his habitual retirement days. Until his routine was disrupted when a student’s simple act of kindness pulls him into a reminiscent of a pivotal moment from Billy’s troubled teenage years, pulling him back into his past. Flashbacks shows young Billy, a promising student grappling with personal struggles.His friend, Leo’s offer of a candy as an escape from his sorrows, in which sets off a chain reaction that leads Billy down a path of addiction and regret. The film delves into a hallucinatory confrontation with his own reflection, capturing Billy’s descent into worthlessness and anger.

Team: B&J Creations

School: Fuhua Secondary School

Controlled by drugs, Edgewin found himself stuck in a horrifying situation, where he saw apparitions of himself and his girlfriend. He realised that the only way to set himself free from the unnerving situation is to destroy the cause of all of it, and that is none other than the drugs itself.