K Rajagopal has won the Singapore International Film Festivals Special Jury Prize for 3 consecutive years with his short films I CANT SLEEP TONIGHT 1995 THE GLARE 1996 and ABSENCE 1997 In 2010 he wrote and directed TIMELESS a short film commissioned by the National Museum of Singapore which won Best Cinematography and Best Editing at the 2011 Singapore Short Film Awards In 2015 his short film THE FLAME was part of the SG50 commissioned omnibus feature film 7 LETTERS which had its Asian premiere at the Busan International Film Festival His debut feature film A YELLOW BIRD premiered at the 55th Critics Week Cannes Film Festival in 2016 and won Best Film at the ASEAN Film Awards 2017 In 2019 the Singapore Silver Arts Festival commissioned him to write and direct the short film A DREAM I DID NOT DREAM