Film Directors Workshop

Li Lin Wee Director. Storyteller. Wee Li Lin (b. 1973) is one of the pioneer female filmmakers in Singapore. Her films have a signature humour, warmth, and whimsy to them. Li Lin has made numerous short films, two feature films, as well as several telemovies and commercials. She has won several awards locally and internationally, such as "Best Director" at the Singapore International Film Festival. In 2018, Li Lin was commissioned to direct Singapore’s National Day music video "We are Singapore". It was such a hit that it became the highest trending video on YouTube in Singapore that year. Li Lin's films have screened at prestigious festivals around the world, such as the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, Short Shorts in Tokyo, the Udine Far East Film Festival in Italy, the Shanghai International Film Festival, the Hawaii International Film Festival, and many others. Li Lin did her undergrad at Brown University and her graduate studies at NYU-Tisch Asia where she studied dramatic writing under an IMDA scholarship. She also teaches film-related studies at various tertiary institutions around Singapore on a part-time basis. Li Lin enjoys photography, audio books, and going to the cinema whenever she can.

Yuni Hadi is a film curator and producer specializing in the management of film and media projects. She has spent a large part of her career promoting Singapore and Southeast Asian cinema. Hadi headed the Singapore International Film Festival in 2009, and 2014-2019 as its Executive Director covering its 25th to 30th edition. In 2017, she co-curated a cross-disciplinary exhibition In the Garden with artist Adeline Kueh, which saw 6 artists respond to physical spaces within the home and its perimeters. In 2013, Hadi published and edited the book Behind the Camera and co-produced the film Ilo Ilo, the first Singapore film to win the Camera d’Or Award at the 66th Cannes Film Festival and Best Feature Film at 50th Golden Horse Awards. Hadi was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship and the United Technologies Corporation Fellowship in 2016. In 2015, Hadi received the Honorary Award from the Singapore Short Film Awards in recognition for her contribution to the film industry. She was named one of Female Magazine’s “50 Most Inspiring Women” in 2010 and recognised as one of the Great Women of Our Time by Women's Weekly in 2014. She was formerly Co-director at Objectifs Centre for Photography & Filmmaking and Programme Manager at The Substation Centre for the Arts, where she currently serves on the boards of.

Don Aravind has been consistently been straddling between film and television with integral relationships of both mediums, finding a balance that fuels his creative oeuvre. His award winning short films have been screened locally and internationally at film festivals.  In 2015, he was the pioneer batch of directors that worked on Singapore’s first English Daily Long Form “Tanglin”. He had directed 120 Episodes for the series. Don has also worked on a number of television shows for MediaCorp which have been well received. In 2018, he had created his first web-drama titled “DRIVE” under a new initiative funded by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDAI and produced by Viddsee Studios. The series eventually was in competition at Festival Series Mania and Marseille Web Festival in France. His short film titled “ANGEL” had also been screened at the 28th Singapore International Film Festival. In 2019, Don was part of the HBO Asia series titled Food Lore which he had directed an episode.

Don Aravind has been consistently been straddling between film and television with integral relationships of both mediums, finding a balance that fuels his creative oeuvre. His award winning short films have been screened locally and internationally at film festivals.  In 2015, he was the pioneer batch of directors that worked on Singapore’s first English Daily Long Form “Tanglin”. He had directed 120 Episodes for the series. Don has also worked on a number of television shows for MediaCorp which have been well received. In 2018, he had created his first web-drama titled “DRIVE” under a new initiative funded by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDAI and produced by Viddsee Studios. The series eventually was in competition at Festival Series Mania and Marseille Web Festival in France. His short film titled “ANGEL” had also been screened at the 28th Singapore International Film Festival. In 2019, Don was part of the HBO Asia series titled Food Lore which he had directed an episode.

A FDW CCB Spinoff. Here we talk to the other filmmaking departments. We did an 'Actors Talk Back' with Kheng Hua and now its 'DPs Talk back' with Amandi Wong. Amandi was the first DP i met nearly 15 years ago. In this episode, Amandi talks about working with directors Ho Tze Nyen, Chai Yee Wei, Jacen Tan and Jack Neo. He shares what his lighting and shooting philosophy is like nowadays and sheds some info about the SGSC, the SG association of Cinematography. Perhaps one of the Singapore's most prolific feature film DP. I'm so glad I manage to 'bottle' this convo. Amandi Wong's first independent feature film as a Director of Photography was in 2006, ’Truth Be Told’ directed by Teo Eng Tiong. During his journey as a Cinematographer he has worked on 13 feature films.