Yong Shu Ling

Birth : , Singapore

History

Shuling Yong is a Singapore-born, Chicago-based documentary filmmaker, DP and Location Sound Recordist with a passion for social change. She has worked on films like Radical Grace (HotDocs, 2015, dir. Rebecca Parrish), In Time To Come (HotDocs, 2017, dir. Tan Pin Pin), The Feeling of Being Watched (Tribeca, 2018, dir. Assia Boundaoui) and films by the award-winning Chicago media collective Kartemquin Films like In The Game (2015, dir. Maria Finitzo) and America To Me (Sundance, 2018, dir. Steve James). Shuling’s most recent film Growing Roots premiered on the Discovery Channel. She is now working on her first feature-length documentary, Unteachable, which was selected for the Tribeca Film Institute Network Market 2018, Good Pitch² Southeast Asia 2017, and won “Best Pitch” at the CNEX Chinese Documentary Forum 2017.

Movies

Unteachable
Unteachable
Director
Ng Meixi returns to Singapore having spent time in Mexico working with low-performing students. She joins a local school as a relief teacher but takes on a mammoth task: to pilot a new pedagogy to help students in the Normal (Technical) stream learn better. She reconfigures the classroom from a teacher-directed one to a community that aims to empower students as learners and tutors to each other. Will this work in Singapore’s result-oriented education system?