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Anthony Chen
Born in 1984 in Singapore, Anthony Chen enrolled in the School of Film & Media Studies, Ngee Ann Polytechnic in 2001 to pursue his passion in filmmaking. Apart from being a film enthusiast, Anthony has served as a radio presenter, a freelance movie reviewer and has done work as an actor both on stage and on screen.
Eng Yee Peng
Eng Yee Peng has recently been nominated for The Singapore Women’s Weekly’s Great Women Of Our Time Awards 2009. She graduated from Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia) with a Bachelor Degree in Digital Media Production with First Class Honours. She completed her first documentary "Diminishing Memories" in 2005.
Jeremy Sing
Jeremy found his real passion in films through his exposure to the vibrant arts scene in London, while pursuing an unrelated degree. He started out making short films in 2005 and the more notable ones include 'A Wake' and `HA-NOISE'. `A Wake' was shown at the 6th Asian Film Symposium and the 2007 Busan Asian Short Film Festival. 'HA-NOISE', is an art-documentary which is currently distributed by Objectifs Films. `The Girl in Red Sarong' is a recent work that he hopes will amuse and provoke.
Kelvin Sng
Kelvin graduated with an Advanced Diploma in Film Production (Directing major) at Ngee Ann Polytechnic after receiving the Media Education Scheme Award from the Media Development Authority (MDA) of Singapore. His 2005 short film "More Than Words", a tribute to the late Asian songstress Teresa Teng, has been officially invited to be screened and compete at film festivals around the world including Italy, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, Romania and Africa.
Kan Lume
One of the most prolific of Singapore’s new generation filmmakers, Kan Lume has written, directed and produced several TV programmes for Channel 5, 8 and Arts Central. Kan began his filmmaking journey when he was talent spotted to direct a short film for Singapore Optical Trade Association. He was previously headhunted by Channel 5 to work as a Trailer Producer.
Lionel Chok
Firmly believing that he can write his own destiny, Lionel turned his back on his Economics Degree to pursue his passion for moving visuals. Starting in dramas and sitcoms, and later magazine varieties and documentaries - he soon expanded his portfolio to writing, producing, directing and even editing! The acclaimed Heritage series - which he was also series producer for - was awarded Best Documentary finalist in the New York Festivals in 1998 and a Best Documentary nominee at the Asian Television Awards in the same year.
Sherman Ong
Sherman works with the video, film and photography media. His current preoccupation is to explore the nature of images and the limits of narrative structure.
Victric Thng
Victric Thng started his affair with filmmaking in 2003. A filmmaker by accident, he is known for creating lyrical stories that revive that precious sense of intimate human interactions and relations. His sublime and insightful examination on the nature of identity, connection and desire for intimacy sets him apart and being named as one of the next new wave of filmmakers to watch out for by The Straits Times, Singapore.Thng is currently an Associate Artist of The Substation and his films are distributed by Objectifs Films.
Maggie Lee
Maggie Lee is The Substation's first Associate Curator for film, and currently a film critic for The Hollywood Reporter. She is also a curator of independent Chinese films for S Express - a touring festival of Asian films. She worked for the editorial and programming sections of Tokyo International Film Festival (Winds of Asia), Shorts Shorts Film Festival Asia in Japan, Hong Kong International Film Festival and Hong Kong Film Archive.
Sun Koh is the first and only Singaporean to-date to win the coveted Silver Hugo with her short film "The Secret Heaven" at the Chicago International Film Festival in 2002. It is the very same award that Martin Scorsese won with his first film.
Tania discovered her passion for media production as an Assistant Producer for Television Corporation of Singapore (Now known as Mediacorp Ltd) for the weekly-magazine business and finance programme, Money Mind (1996-97), and the monthly docu-drama, Crime Watch (1996-97).
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