Tang Wan Xin
Tang Wan Xin is a recent graduate at Columbia Film MFA and is currently based in New York and Singapore.
The day after finishing Business school, she packed a bag and left Singapore. That year-long solo trip, was not only life-changing but the stories that she heard from the people she met compelled her to want to do more. After coming back, she enrolled in The Puttnam School of Film at Lasalle College of the Arts. Through the power of cinema, she realised that the medium of film is a way for people’s voices to be heard.
Her interest lies in issue-based subjects and unconventional female characters. She firmly believes in film as a tool for her to reveal truths that reality often conceals, but also to bring in new perspectives and to challenge existing ideologies. To her, cinema should always be about its people and for its people.
In late 2018, she was invited by Apple to give a workshop (Today at Apple) on Visual Narratives. She was also part of the Film Leaders Incubator programme by the Busan Film Commission which selects 22 emerging young filmmakers from Southeast Asia. She was also in the Youth Jury & Critics Programme in the 27th edition of the Singapore International Film Festival.
Her films have screened in Fantasia (Montreal), Film Fest Munich, Singapore International Film Festival and many others internationally. She also won the Special Mention Student Jury Prize at Bastau International Film Festival for her undergrad thesis film White Carnations. In 2023, she was the recipient of the Miloš Forman Directing Fellowship and Indian Paintbrush Production Grant which allows her to make Wildflower(2024) and Happy New Year(2025) respectively.
She is currently in post-production on her latest short Happy New Year, a contemplative, visual piece that explores her own identity of being a half Indonesian that sets in her mother’s hometown.
Apart from being a full-time cinephile, she is also a gastronome and an ardent musical geek who loves karaoke but is told by many that she is tone-deaf and has two left feet.
ContacT