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Wesley Leon Aroozoo[edit]
Based in Singapore, Wesley Leon Aroozoo is an artist with 13 Little Pictures, an educator with LASALLE College of the Arts. A Singapore Book Awards Winner, Busan International Film Festival Mecenat Award Nominee and Epigram Books Fiction Prize Nominee, Wesley’s award winning works span across literary arts, film, television, performance and theatre.
Wesley’s third novel The Punkhawala and The Prostitute (Epigram Books, 2021) is a Straits Times Weekly Bestseller, Singapore Book Prize Winner and a Epigram Books Fiction Prize Finalist. It was also featured on Channel News Asia and at The Substation’s Artist Journey You are Obviously in the Right Place.
His debut novel Bedok Reservoir (Math Paper Press, 2012) was translated to the stage and performed at the Goodman Arts Centre where Wesley also performed the accompanying live music. The feature documentary, companion to his second bilingual non-fiction novel I Want to Go Home (Math Paper Press, 2017 and 2018), had its World Premiere at the Busan International Film Festival where it was nominated for the Mecenat Award. I Want to Go Home was also adapted as a multi-sensory exhibit at the Light to Nights Festival. Always exploring disciplines, Wesley took to the stage in 2022 at The Arts House with his engaging performance The Overhead to a sold-out audience at Storyfest and returned to Storyfest in 2023 with his performance This is Not a Bench at Story Walk.
As a filmmaker, Wesley’s films have been screened in over a hundred festivals, notably the International Film Festival Rotterdam and Sapporo International Short Film Festival. He was awarded the Talents Tokyo Development Grant from Tokyo Filmex and joined the ranks of prominent Southeast Asian filmmakers with a commissioned piece for the Asian Film Archive’s Fragments Anthology. His films are also acquired by MUBI and Alexander Street. In television, Wesley was the screenwriter behind Mediacorp’s telemovie Cats and Dogs: The Chronicles of a Pest Detective, which starred Pierre Png. In 2023, Wesley collaborated with Mothership with his inspiring documentary Returning World War 2 relics to their rightful owner in Australia.
As a long service awarded Arts Educator, Wesley teaches filmmaking and screenwriting across the Degree in Film and Diploma in Broadcast Media programs at LASALLE College of the Arts. His students have been nominated at the Student Oscars Academy Awards and showcased at festivals such as the Locarno Film Festival. Previously, Wesley has lectured at Nanyang Technological University and continues to teach various workshops for the Singapore Mental Health Festival, Singapore Book Council, Singapore Writers Festival and Raffles Institution. On the academic front, Wesley presented his academic research at the 13th Asian Conference on Media, Communication and Film, MediAsia (Japan). Wesley was part of the jury panel for the Bangkok International Documentary Film Festival, a member of the IMDA T-Assist Skills Expert Panel and a CILECT Prize Jury member.
Education[edit]
Wesley is currently pursuing his PhD at the RMIT University in the School of Media and Communication. Wesley received his Master of Fine Arts in Dramatic Writing from New York University and Bachelor of Fine Arts (with honours) in Digital Filmmaking from Nanyang Technological University.