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KEN KWEK is an award-winning filmmaker, playwright and author, with over thirty credits to his name. His short film anthology Sex.Violence.FamilyValues (2013) was banned in Singapore but won accolades at international festivals, including the Miami Short Film Festival and Sydney Underground Film Festival. His first feature Riot City: An Odyssey (2015) and You Can’t Touch Me Now (2015), which was nominated for Best Comedy at the L.A Music Video Awards. His short film The Pitch (2020) chronicles the struggles of theatre workers during the Covid pandemic and raised over US$100,000 for three of Singapore’s leading theatre companies. Kwek’s works as a playwright include the drama This Is What Happens To Pretty Girls, praised by The New York Times for its unflinching examination of sexual misconduct in the workplace. #LookAtMe is Kwek's second feature film as director.
Jeremy Chua is a Singaporean film producer and screenwriter. In 2010, he started his career as a programming assistant at independent art center The Substation. He founded Potocol in 2014, a company which develops and co-produces independent Asian films. Chua’s first film, A Yellow Bird, co-written and directed by K. Rajagopal, premiered at 55th Cannes Critics’ Week and is available on Netflix. He also co-produced Brotherhood by Pepe Diokno (Karlovy Vary IFF 2016), A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery by Lav Diaz (Silver Bear, Berlinale 2016), A Family Tour by Ying Liang (Opening Film, International Competition Locarno IFF 2018), Motel Acacia by Bradley Liew (Tokyo IFF 2019), A Love Unknown by John Clang (IFF Rotterdam 2020), Death of Nintendo by Raya Martin (Berlinale Generation K Plus), Faraway My Shadow Wandered by Liao Jiekai and Sudhee Liao (IFF Rotterdam 2021) and Rehana Maryam Noor by Abdullah Mohammad Saad (Un Certain Regard, Cannes 2021). He is an alumnus of EAVE Ties That Bind 2013, Produire au sud 2016, Berlinale Talents 2017, SEAFIC 2017 and Torino Film Lab 2018. He works under Marco Mueller at Pingyao International Film Festival, and is a consultant at Sheffield Docs Fest UK.
Kat Goh is part of a leading wave of women filmmakers to emerge from Singapore. She made her directorial debut with the highly-rated TV series Durian King, which garnered three PROMAX awards. Goh’s first short film, Swimming Lesson (2008) won Best Short Film and Best Director at the Singapore International Film Festival, and also picked up at the Special Jury Award at the 7th Vladivostok International Film Festival. In 2011, she produced the comedy It’s A Great Great World, which grossed over $2.5 million at the Singapore box-office. A year later, she directed her first feature film Dance Dance Dragon, produced by Boku Films. Goh’s other credits as producer include The Offering a Singapore-Hollywood co-production, Republic of Food (2018) and A Year Of No Significance (2019).
Pam Oei is an award-winning actor and director with over a hundred stage, television and film credits to her name. A frequent collaborator of the Wild Rice theatre company, she directed the musicals The Emperor’s New Clothes (2015) and Mama White Snake (2017). As an actor, Oei is well-known as a founding member of the popular cabaret trio Dim Sum Dollies. She is the only actor in the history of the Life! Theatre Awards to win both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress in the same year for performances in 2007’s Titoudao and Shanghai Blues. Her recent stage credits include Pangdemonium’s This Is What Happens To Pretty Girls (2019) and lead roles in Wild Rice’s Peter Pan (2019), The Esplanade musical The Feelings Farm (2020) and the ground-breaking LGBTQ one-woman show Faghag (2021). Oei’s feature film credits include Peggy Su! (1997), Forever Fever (1997), The Blue Mansion (2009) and UNLUCKY PLAZA (2014). She is the lead singer of the funk rock band Ugly in the Morning, whose music videos Riot City: An Odyssey (2015) and You Can’t Touch Me Now (2019) were directed by Ken Kwek under his production company, Eko Pictures.
Russell Adam Morton is a Singaporean film and visual artist. His short films The Silent Dialogue of All Artworks (2013), The Forest of Copper Columns (2016) and Saudade (2021) explore folkloric myths, esoteric rituals and the conventions of cinema. Saudade was selected for the Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) and Sheffield Doc Fest. More recently, he has collaborated with movement artists as part of a residency with dance-film collective CineMovement. Fish (2019) was selected for the Jumping Frames International Dance Video Festival and has been acquired by NOWNESS Asia. He was also the cinematographer for Recorder Rewrite, a video installation presented at the Venice Biennale in 2019. Morton’s first feature film project, Penumbra, participated at SGIFF South East Asian Film Lab 2020 and is in development with POTOCOL Films. He is currently an artist in residence with Nanyang Technical University’s Centre of Contemporary Arts.
Olly Stothert began his editing career in London and has since worked in Soho's advertising industry for over a decade. He's worked on both UK and international commercial campaigns as well as branded content and documentaries across a wide variety of subject matters. Olly moved into editing feature films in 2013 and has enjoyed great success and recognition at film festivals both in Europe and across the world, notably My Pure Land (2017), which gained critical acclaim as the UK entry to the Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film. A frequent collaborator of director Ken Kwek, Stothert’s other feature film credits include UNLUCKY PLAZA (2014), Trafficker (2015) and Edie (2017).
Susumu Asano is a graduate of the National Film and Television School in London and has worked in film post production for over fifteen years. He has worked as a freelance colourist for various established London companies including Matador Pictures, Pepper and Recipe. He has graded commercials for major labels such as Armani, Levi’s and Samsung, as well as music videos for artists such as Snoop Dogg and Plan B. His work has been selected for festivals around the globe including the Berlinale, Edinburgh International Film Festival and Raindance.
Irin Lee is one of Singapore’s leading costume designers for film, television and commercials, with over fifty productions under her belt. Her television credits include HBO Asia’s The Kitchen Musical (2011) and Serangoon Road (2013). Her feature film credits include The Maid (2005), Kidnapper (2010) Battle of the Damned (2013), UNLUCKY PLAZA (2014), The Offering (2016), Republic of Food (2017) and A Year of No Significance (2019). A frequent collaborator of director Ken Kwek, she has also created costumes for his music videos Riot City: An Odyssey (2015) and You Can’t Touch Me Now (2019).
Jed Lim is a production designer who has created sets for theatre, art installations and feature films. He was art director for Ho Tzu Nyen’s experimental film Zarathustra (2009) and production designer for Ho’s 2011 multi-channel installation The Cloud of Unknowing. Lim’s theatre credits include Drama Box’s News Busters! and Ten Thousand Tigers, which won Best Set Design at the 2015 Life! Theatre Awards.
JUNE GOH is an award-winning Special Effects Makeup Artist. Formerly Head of Makeup and Costume Technology at Universal Studios Singapore and Resorts World Sentosa, Goh is the founder of The Artist Inc, a company dedicated to make-up expertise for film and television. An alumnus and trainer at Make Up For Ever Academy in Paris and a student of Emmy-winning makeup artist Brian Sipe, Goh has worked for fashion giants Gucci and YSL, as well as celebrities like Brandon Fraser, Ethan Hawke and Aaron Kwok, in big budget commercials. Her Singapore feature film credits include the zombie comedy Zombiepura (2018).
Leong has worked with Singapore’s top film directors including Glen Goei, Eric Khoo and Anthony Chen. His feature film credits include Forever Fever (1997), The Blue Mansion (2009), Ilo Ilo (2013) and In The Room (2015).
JOE NG is one of Singapore’s most prolific and versatile screen composers and sound designers, with over a hundred projects across genres under his belt. A former member of the popular rock band The Oddfellows, Ng began composing for movies in the late 1990s, with film scores for director Kelvin Tong including Eating Air (1999) and the horror hits The Maid (2005) and Rule Number One (2008). More recently he has collaborated with Ting Si Hao, jointly creating music for major film and television projects.
Ting is an accomplished composer, musician and sound engineer, who has arranged and produced recordings for major pop acts such as Nathan Hartono, Shun Ng, Mariam John and Beto Ronald Jr. Working with Joe Ng, his original scores for the screen include HBO Asia’s Invisible Stories (2020) and the feature films Kidnapper (2010), It’s A Great, Great World (2011), Battle of the Damned (2013), UNLUCKY PLAZA (2014), The Offering (2016) and Zombiepura (2018).
Lim Ting Li is a Supervising Sound Editor and Re-recording Mixer who has worked in audio post production for over fifteen years. A graduate of London’s National Film & Television School, she won the Verna Fields Award in Sound Editing at the MPSE Golden Reel Awards in Los Angeles in 2014. In 2018, she was conferred the National Arts Council’s Young Artist Award, Singapore’s highest award for young arts practitioners. Lim’s extensive filmography comprises local as well as international commercial and arthouse feature films, with standouts including Sandcastle (2010), Apprentice (2015) and Pop Aye (2016). She is currently the Director of Sound at Mocha Chai Laboratories, Singapore's first and only Dolby Atmos dubbing theatre facility and is a founding member and elected treasurer of the Singapore Association of Motion Picture Professionals.
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