AMOEBA
Production Companies: Akanga Film Asia, Volya Films, Les Films d'Antoine, Mararía Films, The Widelog Office
Sales Agent: Diversion / Distributor (Singapore): Anticipate Pictures
2025 - 98' - Singapore, the Netherlands, France, Spain, South Korea
English, Mandarin - Colour - 2K DCP - 5.1
At an authoritarian all-girls school, four misfit teens form a secret gang. Their fumbling rebellion unearths buried desires and the quiet violence of growing up in contemporary Singapore.
TIFF50 / BIFF 2025 / 金馬62 / SGIFF36
RED PLASTIC CHAIRS ON STICKY FLOORS
Production Companies: Zhao Wei Films, Clover Films, Akanga Film Asia
Platform: Netflix
2025 - 15' - Singapore - English, Mandarin - Colour - 2.0
A filmmaker working on the sound edit of her film in Amsterdam, begins to miss the sounds of her home.
38th TIFF
RENOIR ルノワール
Production Companies: Loaded Films, Happiness Phantom Studios, Dongyu Club, Ten Carat, Kinofaction, Ici et La Productions, Akanga Film Asia
World Sales: Goodfellas
2025 - 118' - Japan, France, Singapore, The Philippines, Indonesia, Qatar - Japanese, English - Colour
Suburban Tokyo, 1987.
11-year-old Fuki’s father, Keiji, is battling a terminal illness, and in and out of hospital. Her mother, Utako, is constantly stressed out from caring for Keiji while holding down a full-time job. Left alone with her rich imagination, Fuki becomes fascinated by telepathy and falls ever deeper into her own fantasy world…
Cannes Film Festival 2025 / TIFF 50
SOME NIGHTS I FEEL LIKE WALKING
Production Companies: Daluyong Studios, Giraffe Pictures, Momo Film Co, Volos Films
World Sales: Parallax Films
2024 - 103' - The Philippines, Singapore, Italy - - Colour
A band of street hustlers brave the dark corners of the Manila night time and into the outskirts of a forlorn country to fulfill their friend’s dying wish: to take his body home.
POFF 2024 / TGHFF 2024 / 35th SGIFF
STRANGER EYES 默視錄
Production Companies: Akanga Film Asia, Volos Films, Films de Force Majeure, Cinema Inutile
Sales Agent: Playtime / Distributor (Singapore): Anticipate Pictures
2024 - 126' - Singapore, Taiwan, France, USA - Mandarin, English
Colour - 2K DCP - 5.1
After the mysterious disappearance of their baby daughter, a young couple receives strange videos and realises someone has been filming their daily life — even in their most intimate moments. The police set up surveillance around their home to catch the voyeur but the family starts to crumble as secrets unravel under the scrutiny of eyes watching them from all sides.
Venezia 81 / NYFF62 / BFI LFF / 金馬61 / SGIFF36
DEEP END 深網
Production Companies: CJ ENM HK, Akanga Film Asia
Platform: HamiVideo
2023 - 5 x 60' - Singapore - Chinese - Colour
The death of a teenage girl is a catalyst for police investigations that reveal a web of shocking online activities at school and beyond.
ARNOLD IS A MODEL STUDENT อานนเป็นนักเรียนตัวอย่าง
Production Companies: Minimal Animal, 185 Films,Giraffe Pictures, Volya Films
World Sales: Square Eyes
2022 - 85' - Thailand, Singapore, France, Netherlands, Philippines - Thai - Colour
Arnold is a high school student in Bangkok. He’s a school representative for an academic contest. One day, he gets involved with the cheating of the entrance examination to the prestigious military school. What happens to him after that will change his perception of morality forever.
Locarno 2022 / TGHFF / IFFR 2023 / NDNF 2023
MAYBE, MARRIAGE
Production Companies: Momo Film Co, Viddsee Studios
2020 - 5 x 10' - Singapore - English - Colour
Shi Hui is still in love with her ex-boyfriend, Ryan. When he requests that they take fake wedding photographs to appease his dying mother, Shi Hui agrees and becomes lost in the fantasy, much to the chagrin of her best friends Rebecca and JJ.
T/O Webfest— Best International Series /
ContentAsia Awards— Best Short-form Drama Series / Melbourne Web Fest / RIOWF22
LAST WAVE BY
Presented by CreativesAt Work
2020 - 11' - Singapore - English - Colour - 2K DCP - 5.1
A military captain grappling with PTSD from a freak accident, attempts to leave behind his 10-year-old son behind. Through his son's comic book, he is reminded what it takes to be a true hero.
STOREYS / Viddsee Juree Awards 2020
STILL STANDING
Production Companies: Momo Film Co, A girl & A Gun, Blue3Asia
2025 - 20' - Singapore - English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, Bahasa Melayu - Colour - 2K DCP - 5.1
When uniformed high-rise housing began sprouting in post-independence Singapore, a local architect to bring the “kampong spirit” back into the city sky by coming up with the Pearl Bank Apartment.
SGIFF 2019 / 8th La Guarimba Film Festival / MFW6 / 17th SediciCorto Film Festival / ArchFilmLund
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TAN Bao Ying (she/her) graduated with a BA (Hons) in Film from LASALLE College of the Arts. She has collaborated with recognised members of Singapore's film community on a range of projects, including short films, music videos, scripted series, and feature films, which have screened at major international film festivals and platforms.
As people are increasingly becoming global citizens, Bao Ying views identity as a transient construct. She gravitates toward stories that explore time, memory, and self.
CV available upon request.