1. Edmund Yeo first received international acclaim in 2009 when his Japanese-language short film, Kingyo, premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
16 Facts About Edmund Yeo
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Since 2009, Yeo has written and directed fourteen short films and feature films to date and has won international awards, including the Best Director Award at the Tokyo International Film Festival for Aqerat in 2017.
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Edmund Yeo's father, Eric Yeo, is a film critic and a former exec of Polygram Records, where he produced the albums of the band Alleycats.
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Edmund Yeo's mother, Chik Soon Come, was a pop singer.
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Edmund Yeo moved to Petaling Jaya, Malaysia with his parents when he was 2.
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Edmund Yeo completed his Bachelor in Commerce at Murdoch University in Perth in 2005, majoring in Marketing and minoring in English Literature.
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Edmund Yeo then chose to enrol in a one-year graduate diploma course in media production at the same university.
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In 2007, Edmund Yeo joined Greenlight Pictures, the production company of Malaysian filmmaker Woo Ming Jin, and took over producing and editing duties for Woo's film The Elephant and the Sea during post-production.
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Edmund Yeo began rising to prominence in 2009 by writing and directing Love Suicides and Kingyo, two short films loosely adapted from the works of Yasunari Kawabata.
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Edmund Yeo was the youngest Malaysian filmmaker to ever compete in the prestigious film festival.
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In 2010, Edmund Yeo produced, co-wrote and edited Woo Ming Jin's The Tiger Factory, which premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
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Edmund Yeo directed numerous short films of his own on the same year.
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Edmund Yeo directed a short film spin-off of The Tiger Factory called Inhalation.
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Edmund Yeo returned to Tokyo International Film Festival in 2017 with two films, his sophomore film Aqerat in main competition, and a documentary Yasmin-san.
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Edmund Yeo won the Best Director award for Aqerat.
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Edmund Yeo's 2020 film, Malu, is a Japanese-Malaysian co-production starring Malaysian and Japanese actors like Sherlyn Seo, MayJune Tan, Masatoshi Nagase and Kiko Mizuhara.