Residency

LEI Yuan Bin is a founding member of the film collective 13 Little Pictures. He was conferred the Young Artist Award in 2012 by the National Arts Council, Singapore’s highest award for young arts practitioners. His directorial debut, White Days, has been praised by film scholar Professor Gilbert Yeoh to be “one of the rare films in Singapore cinema that invites the viewer to rethink the aesthetics of cinema.” 03-Flats, his sophomore feature was a collaboration with the National University of Singapore’s Architecture department. It was selected for documentary competition at the prestigious Busan International Film Festival and won the Best ASEAN Documentary prize at the Salaya International Documentary Film Festival. Fundamentally Happy, his third feature, was co-directed with Tan Bee Thiam. An adaptation of the acclaimed play by Haresh Sharma and Alvin Tan, it premiered at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2015.

Sara Tan, a native of Singapore, is a contemporary dancer living and working in Europe. After receiving her Bachelor’s degree in Dance from the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point (UWSP) in the United States of America, she went on to attend the contemporary dance school in Brussels- Performing Arts Research and Training Studios (P.A.R.T.S). She has since then been working with the French company, Kubilai Khan Investigations for several years, as well as been in works with Eszter Salamon, Thierry de Mey, Isabella Soupart and t.r.a.n.s.i.t.c.a.p.e. She is now currently involved in new creations with Compagnie Michele Noiret and Anne-Linn Akselsen.