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Bee Thiam Tan

Bee Thiam Tan

History

Tan Bee Thiam has worked as a producer, director, writer, and editor. An alumnus of Berlinale Talents, Rotterdam Lab, and European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs (EAVE), he produced Daniel Hui’s Demons (Berlinale Forum 2019), Snakeskin (Award of Excellence, Yamagata IDFF 2015), and Eclipses (Pixel Bunker Award for International New Talent, Doclisboa IFF 2013); Lei Yuan Bin’s 03-FLATS (In Competition, Wide Angle Documentary, Busan IFF 2014) and White Days (Hong Kong IFF 2009); Liao Jiekai’s As You Were (International Competition, Torino FF 2014) and Red Dragonflies (Special Jury Prize, Jeonju IFF 2010); and Yeo Siew Hua’s In the House of Straw (In Competition, Bangkok 2009). His upcoming films include Glen Goei and Gavin Yap’s Revenge of the Pontianak, Lav Diaz’s Henrico’s Farm and Lei Yuan Bin's Tuition (Busan Asian Cinema Fund award). As a director, his works include Kopi Julia, one of 13 short films curated by Apichatpong Weerasethakul for the Sharjah Biennale. His co-directorial feature Fundamentally Happy, a film adaptation of the 2006 award-winning play by Haresh Sharma and Alvin Tan, was shot by Christopher Doyle and premiered at the Tallinn Black Nights FF 2015. His first feature film Tiong Bahru Social Club (Udine Far East FF Genre Project Market) is currently in post-production.

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Bee Thiam Tan

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Tiong Bahru Social Club

Tiong Bahru Social Club

Writer

Ah Bee goes on a comedic odyssey through Tiong Bahru Social Club, a data-driven project to create the happiest neighborhood in the world. Little by little, his encounters with the neighborhood's residents reveal the absurdity of life.

Tiong Bahru Social Club

Tiong Bahru Social Club

Director

Ah Bee goes on a comedic odyssey through Tiong Bahru Social Club, a data-driven project to create the happiest neighborhood in the world. Little by little, his encounters with the neighborhood's residents reveal the absurdity of life.

Revenge of the Pontianak

Revenge of the Pontianak

Producer

A newly married couple’s life is shaken by the arrival of a vengeful Pontianak, forcing them down a dark path of betrayal, witchcraft and murder.

Producer

A role in a new production seems lucky for young actress Vicki until the torture that awaits her is revealed. Vicki refuses to be agonized in this satiric horror film about power, abuse and the hidden violence of creativity that contemplates the price of art.

Fundamentally Happy

Fundamentally Happy

Director

Twenty years ago, Habiba and Eric were neighbours. When Eric revisits her home to find her still living there with her husband, what seems like a friendly reunion turns into the gradual revelation of a painful secret from the past. An unflinching look at the consequences of abuse, Fundamentally Happy explores without judgment or condemnation critical issues such as trust, memory, relationships and consent.

Editor

Guohui and Peiling were childhood sweethearts who met again after years of being apart and became a couple. On an idyllic island south of Singapore, they spend their last moments together as their relationship falls apart. The film is about the impossibility to know what has made people change. Through the ever-changing landscape, Guohui and Peiling realise that what is transitory is also eternal.

Executive Producer

Guohui and Peiling were childhood sweethearts who met again after years of being apart and became a couple. On an idyllic island south of Singapore, they spend their last moments together as their relationship falls apart. The film is about the impossibility to know what has made people change. Through the ever-changing landscape, Guohui and Peiling realise that what is transitory is also eternal.

Julia’s Coffee

Producer

Ikram brings home his classmates to feed Julia, his blood-sucking stepmum. When Julia starts flirting with a classmate Ikram has been secretly admiring, he flies into a rage of jealousy.

Julia’s Coffee

Director

Ikram brings home his classmates to feed Julia, his blood-sucking stepmum. When Julia starts flirting with a classmate Ikram has been secretly admiring, he flies into a rage of jealousy.

Army Officer

En is an 18-year-old who has lost his father to cancer. As his family is drawn together in a sudden tragedy, he has to decide what he believes in. But in a country where ideologies are forged on constantly shifting sands, he struggles to stay true to what he knows to be right. And in a family that prefers to forget, the sandcastles of all he holds dear seem doomed to be washed away by the tides of time.