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Name: Teng Yi Yun Grace
Date of Birth: 14/08/1989
Nationality: Singaporean
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Victoria Junior College (2006 - 2007)
Graduated with 4 GCE A Levels
Dunman High School (2002 - 2005)
Graduated with 9 GCE O Levels
Oct 2008: Too Small Town
Director, Writer, Animator
A stop-motion short film about a young art school graduate who believes he needs to leave his small town in order to revive his uninspired painting career.
Screenings:
2009 South Beath International Film Festival
2009 Singapore International Film Festival (out of competition)
First Take, June 2009
Aug 2008: Urban Invasion
Director, Writer
A short film about the nature of interaction in urban spaces, about a young man who wants to read his book but has to contend with pushy salespeople, commuters falling asleep on his shoulder and students doing CIP.
Screenings:
First Take, Jan 2009
Sinema Showoff!, Feb and Mar 2009 (as part of Experimental Shorts II)
Jun 2008: Suffering for Success
Director, Writer, Animator
A series of animated parody advertisements, about the lengths students will go to for good results.
Screenings (as part of S-Express):
2008 Thai Short Film & Video Festival
2008 Asian Film Symposium
2008 Jakarta International Film Festival
Jun 2007: IV League
Director, Writer
A satirical short film about a dystopian future school where students are hooked up to intravenous caffeine drips so they can study all night.
May 2007: Murphy's Law
Director, Writer
A short mockumentary about things that go wrong.
Screenings:
First Take, June 2007
Jan 2009 - Mar 2009: Project Assistant at the Substation
Assisted Programme Manager with the organisation, logistics and marketing of the 3rd Singapore Indie Doc Fest, secured a hotel sponsor, and helped to catalogue the Substation's film archive.
Jan 2008 - Mar 2008: Relief teacher at Dunman High School
Taught Language Arts: Integrated Program (IP) subject incorporating English language, literature and film studies.
Dec 2007: Intern at Dream Academy Productions
Interned during the early production period of the re-run of the Dim Sum Dollies in the History of Singapore. Edited the promotional video for that show, which was played on McDonald's screens all over Singapore.
Jan 2007 - May 2007: Customer Service and Sales at Cinenow Pte Ltd
Cinenow is an automated 24-hour movie rental service. Responsibilities included selling memberships, introducing new members to the rental machine, dealing with basic technical issues, and calling customers regarding unreturned movies.
Volunteered as front-of-house staff for the following theatre productions:
W!LD RICE
Apr 2009 - The Importance of Being Earnest
Dec 2008 - Snow White
Jan 2008 - Beauty World
Sept 2007 - Campaign to Confer the Public Service Star on JBJ
Jul 2007 - Asian Boys Vol. III
The Necessary Stage
Feb 2008 - six shows (four productions) at the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival
May 2007 - Off-Centre
Sept 2006 - Fundamentally Happy
Dream Academy
Feb 2008 - Dim Sum Dollies in the History of Singapore
Singapore Repertory Theatre
Nov 2006 - The Gingerbread Man
Volunteered in other capacity:
Jan 2009 - Gallery sitter for A Light Sleep during M1 Singapore Fringe Festival
Feb 2007 - Crashout! reviewer and video interviewer covering M1 Singapore Fringe Festival.