Festival Team
Jeremy Chua
Executive Director
Jeremy Chua is the Executive Director of SGIFF. Previously, he was the General Manager from 2024 to 2025. Since 2014, he founded Singapore-based independent film label Potocol to produce the works of distinctive Asian auteurs. His producing credits include Filipinana by Rafael Manuel (Special Jury Prize, Sundance World Dramatic Competition 2026), Some Rain Must Fall by Qiu Yang (Special Jury Prize, Berlinale Encounters 2024), and Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell by Pham Thien An (Cannes Camera d’Or 2023). He is the recipient of the 2023 FIAPF Outstanding Contribution to Asia Pacific Cinema Award and a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.
Thong Kay Wee
Programme Director
Thong Kay Wee is a cultural worker specialising in film programming and curation, currently serving as the Programme Director of the Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) since 2021. He has previously served on film festival juries in Jeonju, Taiwan and Yogyakarta, among others. He was previously the Programmes and Outreach Officer at the Asian Film Archive (AFA) from 2014 to 2021. During his tenure at the AFA, he was responsible for establishing the AFA’s regular programmes and presiding over specialised showcases, including the Singular Screens film series (2018-2021) commissioned by the Singapore International Festival of the Arts and the State of Motion exhibition series (2016-2021) commissioned for the Singapore Art Week.
Programme
Ryan Pagdanganan
Programme Executive
Ryan Pagdanganan programmes films at the Singapore International Film Festival. His practice treads around his residence between cultures and translates into an enduring curiosity of the mundane everyday. His photographs have been plastered at FilmNeverDie (2020) in Melbourne and Ephemere (2023) in Tokyo. His static words are sprinkled around in places such as Bog Bodies Press (2024) and Reboot (2023) while his more interactive work lives in several corners of the internet.
Festival Operations
Mabelyn Ow
Head of Festival Operations
With two decades of experience in the Singapore Film Industry, Mabelyn has been a Line Producer on landmark Singapore films, a Film Educator with the local film institutions and has finally come full circle, returning to the place where it all started for her when she was a little wide-eyed volunteer years ago – the Singapore International Film Festival.
Partnerships & Development
Wilson Teh
Partnerships & Development Executive
Wilson Teh is a Partnerships and Development Executive at SGIFF, where he is dedicated to fostering meaningful collaborations and expanding the festival’s outreach. Before joining SGIFF, Wilson was deeply involved in the Impact Investing and Sustainability space, directing capital toward meaningful causes. He brings this same intentionality to his work at the festival—leveraging Outreach and Fundraising to support projects that uplift lesser-reached communities and create space for diverse voices in cinema. An active dancer, Wilson’s current practice explores the new wave of commercial Afro dance and its cultural roots, deepening his understanding of movement as both an art form and a means of historical dialogue.
Marketing & Communications
Krystalle Teh
Marketing Executive
Krystalle Teh is a writer and cinephile from Singapore. Before joining the Festival team as its Marketing Executive, she previously participated in the Festival’s Youth Jury & Critics Programme in 2021. Her film criticism has appeared with Asian Film Archive and Phnom Penh-based film magazine MARG1N. Her short fiction has appeared in SUSPECT journal. She is at work on a series of short stories on violent desires.