A writer, editor and illustrator who transforms her experimental visions into cinematic reality. Ning Xuan loves directing unique narratives that compel all hearts.
Ning Xuan is a writer, director and editor from Singapore who recently graduated from Nanyang Technological University, School of Art, Design, and Media. Her love for stop-motion and mixed-media experimentation inspires her work.
Her latest graduation short, "I Think I'm Going to Die” (2024) won the Best Singapore Student Award and Audience Choice at Cartoons Underground in Singapore. It was also the third place winner for Chilemonos International Film Festival in Chile.
Her first film "Paper Offerings" (2022), co-directed with Vanessa Ng and Winona Mazo, was also selected for the Annecy Film Festival MIFA Campus as a collaboration with the French Embassy of Singapore and animation schools: Atelier de Sèvres, École Émile Cohl, LASALLE College of the Arts and Nanyang Technological University. It has also won first place at the 100-Second International Film Festival in Tehran.
Official Student Selection I Think I'm Going to Die
Stop-eMotion Days Venice
2026
Official Selection I Think I'm Going to Die
Singapore Youth Film Festival 2026
2026
3rd place Winner I Think I'm Going to Die
14th CHILEMONOS International Animation Festival
2025
Audience Award I Think I'm Going to Die
27th International Youth Media Festival – YOUKI Wels
2025
Jury Award I Think I'm Going to Die
SiamANIMA 2025 Nakhon Pathom
2025
Official Selection I Think I'm Going to Die
Seoul Indie-AniFest2025 Seoul
2025
Official Selection I Think I'm Going to Die
Festival du Film d'Animation de Savigny
2025
Official Selection I Think I'm Going to Die
Animage Festival- 15th International Animation Festival of Pernambuco Recife
2025
Official Selection I Think I'm Going to Die
13th Seoul International Children’s Film Festival Seoul
2025
Official Selection I Think I'm Going to Die
18th International Student Animation Festival of Brazil Rio de Janeiro
2025
Finalist I Think I'm Going to Die
Kuandu International Animation Festival Taipei
2025
Official Selection I Think I'm Going to Die
Paris International Animation Film Festival Paris
2025
Official Selection I Think I'm Going to Die
Festival Black Movie Geneva
2025
Official Selection I Think I'm Going to Die
Animex Screen 2025 Middlesbrough
2025
Official Selection I Think I'm Going to Die
Transfiguration International Film Festival
2025
Official Selection I Think I'm Going to Die
18th Film Festival for Women’s Rights Seoul
2025
Official Selection I Think I'm Going to Die
Ibicine, Ibiza Film Festival
2025
Directing and Animation Award Shortlist I Think I'm Going to Die
Watersprite Film Festival
2025
Official Selection I Think I'm Going to Die
Singapore Shorts
2025
Finalist I Think I'm Going to Die
Lightbox SEA Animation Awards
2024
Official Selection I Think I'm Going to Die
Icona Animation Festival Greece
2024
Best Singapore Student Film Award and Audience Choice Award I Think I'm Going to Die
Cartoons Underground
2024
Finalist irresistAble
MOVE Summit Edinburgh
2023
Official Selection Paper Offerings
Khabarovsk International Animation Film Festival "Animur" Khabarovsk
2023
Official Selection Paper Offerings
ANIMART FESTIVAL Hydra
2023
Honourable Mention Paper Offerings
Student World Impact Film Festival New Jersey
2023
Official Selection Paper Offerings
LJMU MA Short Film Festival Liverpool
2023
Official Selection Paper Offerings
The 5th Meihodo International Youth Visual Media Festival Kumamoto
2023
Award Winner Paper Offerings
100-Second International Film Festival Tehran
2023
First Select Paper Offerings
Shibuya TANPEN Film Festival CLIMAX at Sasebo Tokyo
2022
Collaboration with the French Embassy of Singapore and animation schools: Atelier de Sèvres (Paris), École Émile Cohl (Lyon), LASALLE College of the Arts (Singapore) and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) Paper Offerings
Annecy Film Festival MIFA Campus - Paris-Lyon-Singapore: Live Elsewhere Annecy
A writer, editor and illustrator who transforms her experimental visions into cinematic reality. Ning Xuan loves directing unique narratives that compel all hearts.