Yeo Siew Hua


Yeo Siew Hua is a Singaporean director, screenwriter and visual artist.

Education

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

Career

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 curates documentary films in conversation with contemporary art practice. His experimental feature debut In the House of Straw was named by critics as being a significant entry in the Singapore New Wave. With his second feature film A Land Imagined, Yeo became the first Singaporean to win the Golden Leopard Award at Locarno in 2018. The following year, the film went on to win Best Original Screenplay and Golden Horse Award for Best [Original Film Score|Best Original Film Score] at the Golden Horse Awards, and was also chosen as Singapore's entry for Academy Award for [Best International Feature Film|Best International Feature Film] at the 92nd Academy Awards.
Yeo has also taught at local institutions including the School of the Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore Polytechnic and Ngee Ann Polytechnic.
In 2021, Yeo received the Young Artist Award, Singapore's most prominent award for young arts practitioners.

Filmography

As cinematographer

Aik khoon The Bohemian Rhapsody Project

As editor

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Film appearances

  • ''Singapore Cinema: Between Takes''