I spent the first 7 years of my life living with my grandparents. When I was 8, I discovered they were not my real grandparents. This rupture in my childhood gave me a lot of fuel when I first started my filmmaking journey.

I taught myself how to make films by writing scripts and imagining how Ozu would shoot them. When I stopped trying to be like Ozu, my short film Tadpoles became the first Singaporean film to win a jury prize at the 66th Locarno Film Festival.

Thereafter, I went on to study directing at the National Film & Television School in the UK under a national scholarship.

I’ve worked as 2nd Assistant Director on Anthony Chen’s Wet Season (2019), script supervisors to Jow Zhi Wei’s Tomorrow is a Long Time (Berlin ‘23) and K. Rajagopal & Chris Yeo’s Deep End.

Somewhere in between, I was a fisherman on a remote island off Hokkaido.

I am currently writing my first feature film.