Woodford's father and aunt are half-Japanese and half-
Eurasian. Her late Japanese grandmother, who inspired Woodford's debut feature, had missed her train to work from her home in
Kure in 1945 and thus survived the
Hiroshima atomic blast. Woodford studied film at the School of Art, Design & Media at
Nanyang Technological University. She graduated in 2009 in the school's pioneer batch, and has later taught there since 2018. == Career ==