Yeo Siew Hua

In this Chinese name, the family name is Yeo .

Yeo Siew Hua
Yeo in 2023
Born	(1985-04-01) 1 April 1985 (age 40) Singapore
Other names	Chris Yeo Yang Xiuhua
Education	Ngee Ann Polytechnic
Alma mater	National University of Singapore
Occupations	Director screenwriter producer cinematographer editor NFT artist visual artist educator
Years active	2005−present
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	楊修華
Simplified Chinese	杨修华
Hanyu Pinyin	Yáng Xiūhuá

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

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. ^[2]

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 (2009) 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 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. ^[3]

Yeo has also taught at local institutions including the School of the Arts (SOTA), LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore Polytechnic and Ngee Ann Polytechnic. ^[4]

In 2021, Yeo received the Young Artist Award, Singapore's most prominent award for young arts practitioners. ^{[5] [6]}

Filmography

As director, writer and producer

Key

†	Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released

Year	Title	Credited as			Notes	Ref.
		Director	Writer	Producer
2005	Aik Khoon	No	Yes	No	Short film	[7]
	Waking Monkey	Yes	Yes	No	Short film	[2]
2007	Nightless Day	No	Yes	No	Short film; original story
2009	White Days	No	Yes	No
	In the House of Straw	Yes	Yes	Yes	Feature film	[8]
2012	Wormhole	Yes	Yes	Yes	Short film	[8]
2013	He & His Necktie	No	Yes	No	Short film
2014	The Obs: A Singapore Story	Yes	Yes	Yes	Documentary	[8]
2015	Mountain of Knives	Yes	Yes	No	Short film	[8]
	The Playground: Gone Kimmy Gone	No	Yes	No	Telemovie
2016	The Minotaur	Yes	Yes	No	Short film
	Rojak	No	Yes	No	TV series
	Run Rachael Run	No	Yes	No	TV series
2017	Whoopie's World	No	Yes	No	TV series
	Sanjay	No	Yes	No	Short film
2018	A Land Imagined	Yes	Yes	No	Feature film	[8]
	Queen of Hearts	No	Yes	No	TV series
2019	Incantation	Yes	Yes	Yes	Short film
2020	The Wandering	Yes	Yes	No	Short film; co-director
	An Invocation to the Earth	Yes	Yes	No	Short film	[5]
2022	The Once and Future	Yes	Yes	No	An Expanded Cinema work	[5] [9]
2023	Deep End	Yes	No	No	TV series; co-director	[10] [11]
2024	Stranger Eyes	Yes	Yes	No	Feature film	[12] [13]

As cinematographer

• Aik khoon (2005; short film)
• The Bohemian Rhapsody Project (2006) ^[2]
• The Lucky Seven Project (2007) ^[2]

As editor

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

Film appearances

• Singapore Cinema: Between Takes (2018; documentary)

References

1. "Yeo Siew Hua". Gajah Gallery. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
2. "Yeo Siew Hua". Infocomm Media Development Authority. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
3. Ong, Sor Fern (25 November 2021). "My Weekend: Film-maker Yeo Siew Hua catches up on reading and movies". The Straits Times. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
4. "Yeo Siew Hua" (PDF). Singapore National Arts Council. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
5. "Yeo Siew Hua". NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore. 25 March 2021. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
6. "Writer-Director Yeo Siew Hua Conferred With Young Artist Award". Sinema.SG. 25 November 2021. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
7. "Aik Khoon". Asian Film Archive. Retrieved 1 September 2025.
8. "Yeo Siew Hua | IFFR". iffr.com. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
9. "House Programme - The Once and Future". SIFA 2023. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
10. "新台演员本地拍戏 宏荣"吻了"陈雪甄隔天确诊 | 早报". Lianhe Zaobao (in Simplified Chinese). Retrieved 3 September 2023.
11. "Deep End (2023) — Akanga Film Asia". akangafilm.com. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
12. Frater, Patrick; Ramachandran, Naman (18 August 2023). "'A Land Imagined' Director Yeo Siew Hua Casts Taiwan Star Lee Kang-Sheng in Surveillance Thriller 'Stranger Eyes' (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
13. "杨修华新作《默视录》台湾帮演员挂帅 "偷窥者"李康生反被跟踪 | 早报". www.zaobao.com.sg (in Simplified Chinese). Retrieved 3 September 2023.

External links

• Yeo Siew Hua at IMDb
• Yeo Siew Hua at IMDb