Yeo Siew Hua | Director, Producer

Yeo Siew Hua graduated among the top of his cohort in Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s School of Media Studies, winning the Kodak Singapore Prize for Cinematography and the Cathay Organisation Gold Medal. He wrote and directed short films such as Aik Khoon (in competition for the Silver Screen Awards – Singapore International Film Festival 2005) and Waking Monkey (The Substation’s Best Film Award for the Best of First Takes 2007).  In The House of Straw, which he wrote and directed, is his debut feature film that premiered in competition at the Bangkok International Film Festival 2009 and was presented at the 34th Sao Paulo International Film Festival 2010, where it was lauded by critics as a significant film of the Singapore New Wave. He is also an award-winning director of photography for Ho Tzu Nyen’s The Bohemian Rhapsody Project and Sun Koh’s The Lucky 7 Project.