Born 1984 in Singapore, trained in Australia and now based in Japan. Edmund Yeo is a prolific Malaysian filmmaker who started writing and directing short films in 2008.
In 2009, he became the youngest Malaysian filmmaker to ever compete in the Venice Film Festival with his first Japanese-language short Kingyo (2009). On the same year, his earlier short film, Love Suicides (2009), which screened at the Paris Cinema, Split and Los Angeles Film Festivals, received the Best Director Award at the China Mobile Film Festival in Shenzhen. His experimental short Fleeting Images (2008) was the Grand Prix winner at Japan’s CON-CAN Movie Festival.
His latest short, Inhalation (2010) won the Sonje Award for Best Asian Short Film at the Pusan International Film Festival and was screened at the Tokyo, Vancouver and Bangkok International Film Festivals.
He also produced and edited Woo Ming Jin’s The Elephant And The Sea (2007), Woman On Fire Looks For Water (2009) and The Tiger Factory (2010). The latter, which he co-wrote, was screened at Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes Film Festival 2010.