Birdboy is a film about the brief entanglement between two lonely souls: Calvin, a listless young man with a doting family, and Jerry, a foreign sex worker with no social connections. With locations in KL from streetside coffee shops to glitzy hotel rooms to dingy back alleys, director Hu Tianpei […]

Nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival 2025, Renoir tells the story of an imaginative 11-year-old girl, her hospitalised father, and dissatisfied mother during their eventful summer of 1987 in Japan. It was a pleasure working with director of photography Hideho Urata, with many emails exchanged about our […]

Red Plastic Chairs on Sticky Floors, a segment of anthology feature film Kopitiam Days, directed by Tan Siyou. This aural-driven story is about a Singaporean director’s search for authentic kopitiam sounds while mixing her film in the Netherlands. Given the difference in environments, there is a sense of longing and […]

Dragon Gate Assembly, the opening segment of anthology feature film Kopitiam Days, directed by Yeo Siew Hua. A comedic ode to wuxia set in the 80s with over-the-top fantasy elements (and a flashback sequence thrown in to boot)? This piece was a blast to grade! Its colourful (pun unintended) cast […]

Village Rockstars 2 is a coming-of-age story of Dhunu, a teen girl in an Assamese village who is a guitarist in a local band. Shot and directed by Rima Das, the film offers such intimate access to the village that the performances and settings feel deeply authentic. I worked to […]