Tan Siyou

Tan Siyou is a New York-based filmmaker originally from Singapore. Tan’s short films Strawberry Cheesecake (2021) and Hello Ahma (2019) have been screened at international film festivals, including Locarno and Berlinale. Amoeba is her debut feature and premiered at Toronto.

M. Raihan Halim

M. Raihan Halim made his feature film debut in 2014 with “Banting” , which was screened at the 34th Hawaii International Film Festival. His second feature, “La Luna”, released in 2023, was showcased at the Tokyo International Film Festival, Jakarta Film Week, and closed the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2024. It was also selected as Singapore’s entry at the Oscars.

His new film, Badak, was released in October of 2025.

Ler Jiyuan

Ler Jiyuan is a Singaporean filmmaker. He is the Showrunner, Writer and Director of the critically-acclaimed HBO Asia drama series Invisible Stories. It screened at the Golden Horse Film Festival and the Singapore Int'l Film Festival. The series went on to garner several other awards and nominations, including Best National Director for Ler in the 2020 Asian Academy Creative Awards. Invisible Stories was listed as Variety Magazine Top 15 International Series to watch out for in 2020.

Ler's short films include The Drum, which competed at the prestigous Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival.

Sompot Chidgasornpongse

Sompot CHIDGASORNPONGSE graduated with a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Chulalongkorn university, and an MFA in Film/Video from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). His short films were shown at various international film festivals around the world, such as Oberhausen, Rotterdam, Viennale, Visions du Réel, IndieLisboa, etc.

His first documentary feature, ‘Railway Sleepers’, had its world premiere in the Documentary Competition at Busan International Film Festival, the European premiere in the Forum section at Berlinale, and later at True/False, Sheffield, Melbourne IFF, RIDM, TIDF, and many other festivals worldwide. Sompot is also a Berlinale Talents and Talents Tokyo alumnus.

Sompot has also been working closely with Apichatpong Weerasethakul as assistant director in many films, including ‘Tropical Malady’, ‘Syndromes and a Century’, ‘Cemetery of Splendour’, and most recently ‘Memoria’. He’s now based in Bangkok.

Aditya Ahmad

Aditya Ahmad is an Indonesian filmmaker whose works are driven by themes of identity, longing, and emotional complexity, often told through intuitive, intimate storytelling. His short film On Stopping the Rain (Sepatu Baru) received a Special Mention at the 64th Berlinale Generation. He later made A Gift (Kado), a short inspired by a real-life conversation with his non-actor protagonist, which won Best Short Film in the Orizzonti section at the 75th Venice International Film Festival.

He also works across documentary, series, and TV commercials, and occasionally serves as a cinematographer and editor. He is an alumnus of the Asian Film Academy (2014), Berlinale Talents (2015), and Locarno Filmmakers Academy (2024). He took part in La Résidence du Festival de Cannes and TorinoFilmLab ScriptLab 2025 to develop his debut feature film.