Yeo Siew Hua’s A LAND IMAGINED (2018) won the Golden Leopard at the 71st Locarno Film Festival. It is Singapore’s entry to the Academy Awards (Oscars) 2020 and is internationally distributed on NETFLIX. The film also won Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Music Score at the 56th Golden Horse Awards 2019. The film received multiple top awards for Best Film at numerous international film festivals around the world, including the 29th Singapore International Film Festival 2018, where he was also honoured the Leslie Ho Asian Film Talent Award in recognition of his contribution to the development of cinema in Asia. He is a member of the 13 Little Pictures film collective in Singapore, which produced his debut film IN THE HOUSE OF STRAW (2009) and also the documentary THE OBS: A SINGAPORE STORY (2014). Yeo studied Film & Media Studies at Ngee Ann Polytechnic, and graduated in Philosophy from the National University of Singapore.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and emerging. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
