Yeo Siew Hua (born 1 April 1985) is a Singaporean director, screenwriter and visual artist.

Life and career

Graduating among the top of his cohort in Ngee Ann Polytechnic's School of Media Studies, Yeo went on to study philosophy at the

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. Yeo is a founding member of the 13 Little Pictures film collective and is part of the autonomous art group soft/Wall/studs, where he programmes documentary films in conversation with contemporary art practice. His experimental feature debut ''In the House of Straw'' (2009) was named by critics as being a significant entry in the Singapore New Wave. With his second feature film ''

A Land Imagined ''A Land Imagined'' () is a 2018 neo-noir mystery thriller film written and directed by Yeo Siew Hua. A Singapore-France-Netherlands co-production, the film tells the story of a police investigator who uncovers the truth behind the disappearance ...

'', Yeo became the first Singaporean to win the Golden Leopard Award at

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in 2018. The following year, the film went on to win Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Film Score at the Golden Horse Awards, and was also chosen as Singapore's entry for Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards. Yeo has also taught at local institutions including the School of the Arts (SOTA), LASALLE College of the Arts,

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and Ngee Ann Polytechnic. In 2021, he received the Young Artist Award, Singapore's most prominent award for young arts practitioners.

Filmography

As director, writer and producer

As cinematographer

* ''Aik khoon'' (2005; short film) * ''The Bohemian Rhapsody Project'' (2006) * ''The Lucky Seven Project'' (2007)

As editor

* ''Aik khoon'' (2005; short film) * ''In the House of Straw'' (2009)

Film appearances

* ''Singapore Cinema: Between Takes'' (2018; documentary)

References

External links

* * 1985 births Living people Singaporean film directors Singaporean screenwriters Singaporean film producers Singaporean cinematographers Ngee Ann Polytechnic alumni National University of Singapore alumni Singaporean digital artists 21st-century Singaporean educators Singaporean television people Singaporean film editors {{Singapore-bio-stub