Cornflakes Pyramid

I have been raised in an environment where a sense of disunity and separation prevails between the two major ethnicities. I have spent most of my childhood learning to never mix with “the other”. However, coming to live in Singapore, where people from different cultures learned to tolerate each other and live in harmony, I was able to experience what it means to form a meaningful connection with someone who is different from me. Yet, I am constantly judged for looking beyond these differences.

Multi-racial, religious and ethnic conflict is present everywhere around the world, in very explicit ways. It represents a major cause of contemporary wars, refugee crises, and on-going discrimination of opposing religions. Children also tend to perform such acts, as they project their parents' attitudes from home to the outside world, creating an uncomfortable environment for their peers of different faiths and ethnicities. I myself also plead guilty of having such prejudices in the past, but becoming friends with “the other” has helped me overcome my own prejudices as a child, and further inspired me to revolt against people who still do.

Cornflakes Pyramid addresses this issue through the innocent eyes of our child protagonist David, and the bond he forms with his “frenemy” Afiqah - aiming to show that human connection is not limited based on race, ethnicity or religion. By being forced to work together to defeat their enemy, both David and Afiqah grow out of their initial prejudices and learn to look beyond their differences, eventually becoming close friends. I hope that their connection would inspire future generations to achieve a deeper racial, religious and ethnic harmony.

This film indeed represents my personal experience, and I do wish to share my story and be heard by those who cause these conflicts and those who do nothing about it.