About Me

Megan Wonowidjoyo is a lecturer and Foundation Programme Coordinator of The Faculty of Cinematic Arts, Multimedia University. Formerly, she was the Head of Forum at Seashorts Film Festival 2019. She received her Masters in Fine Arts (Drawing) at COFA, University of New South Wales, Sydney in 2011 and Bachelor of Arts (Architecture) from National University of Singapore in 2000. She has previously served in Chapterfree Productions as Producer and Film Editor and Art Director for more than 10 years.

She has won a Gold award for her teaching methods in the IDE4TE Education Conference titled: Immersive Situated Learning: Berkat Charity Art Exhibition. She also won Best Academician Excellence in Teaching Award 2019 for Faculty of Cinematic Arts, Multimedia University, Malaysia.  Her distinctive animation Study of a Singaporean Face was commissioned for the opening of the National Gallery of Singapore in 2015.

Her debut animation LIBERTAS won the Best Screenplay at the 6th Indonesian Film Festival 2011 Short Film competition and was a finalist for Best Short Animation at the prestigious AFI Fest 2011, Los Angeles. With her “featured art”, she was a finalist at the BSG Art Prize in Melbourne and KUDOS Emerging Artist Award, and exhibited in Permulihan Group exhibition in Malaysia and the first issue on Migration in Practice, Research and Tangential Activities (PR&TA) journal in Singapore.

In 2017, her debut short film “Woman At Home” was nominated for Best Short Film at Seoul International Women’s Film Festival, and being produced single-handedly by the director, “is a foretelling of the rise of a new moving image artists” by critic Bae Ju-yeon.