Full Name
Siew Hua Yeo
Speaker Bio
Yeo Siew Hua’s A LAND IMAGINED (2018) won the Golden Leopard at the 71st Locarno Film Festival. It is Singapore’s entry to the Academy Awards (Oscars) 2020 and is internationally distributed on NETFLIX. The film also won Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Music Score at the 56th Golden Horse Awards 2019. The film received multiple top awards for Best Film at numerous international film festivals around the world, including the 29th Singapore International Film Festival 2018, where he was also honoured the Leslie Ho Asian Film Talent Award in recognition of his contribution to the development of cinema in Asia. He is a member of the 13 Little Pictures film collective in Singapore, which produced his debut film IN THE HOUSE OF STRAW (2009) and also the documentary THE OBS: A SINGAPORE STORY (2014). Yeo studied Film & Media Studies at Ngee Ann Polytechnic, and graduated in Philosophy from the National University of Singapore.
Siew Hua Yeo