Festival Team

Vess Chua is a film programmer and producer based in Singapore. With a focus on Southeast Asian and Singapore short films, she is currently the Programme Executive at the Singapore International Film Festival and the Festival Manager of the Singapore Youth Film Festival. She is also on the viewing committee for Movies That Matter (NL) for the Take on Future and Take on Love thematic sections. Her research investigates the implications of historical legacies and collective anxieties on the re-orientation of self and identity. Previously, she contributed to the Perspectives Film Festival, first as a Programmer in 2018, then as the Festival Director in 2019.

Gabriel Goh is the Programme Executive at the Singapore International Film Festival. Along with Sam I-shan, he has overseen the development of the Undercurrent section at the festival since 2021, which brings in bold contemporary artist films from around the world. His programming ethos builds on his ongoing research interests in the concepts of time and idleness in Southeast Asian cinema. Outside work, he enjoys tinkering with Super8 films and documenting tifos at lower-league football matches.

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.

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.

An experienced producer from Singapore, Pui Yin has a successful track record of producing box-office hits and collaborating on international movie projects. Some of her notable works include I Not Stupid, I Not Stupid Too, Homerun, The Maid, 881, Homecoming and Taxi! Taxi!, among others. She has also collaborated on international movie projects such as The Eye, The Eye 2, Turn Left, Turn Right, The Home Song Stories (Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Golden Horse Awards 2007) and Painted Skin. Most recently, she completed the 45-episode The Little Nyonya, the 36-episode The Ferryman – Legends Of Nanyang (iQIYI’s first Southeast Asia Original in 2021), the 40-episode Sisterhood (which aired on iQIYI and CCTV in 2023) and co-produced Miss Tanya (a Douyin mini drama) and Sparkling Show In Singapore 2023 (a Douyin variety).

Lekheraj Sekhar is an actor and the Partnerships Executive at the Singapore Film Festival. He graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, where he developed an ethnography of the local stand-up comedy scene. As an actor, he last appeared in Tomorrow Is A Long Time (2023), which was screened at the Berlinale and SGIFF. In his free time, Lekheraj attempts to play the guitar and enjoys a good loiter.

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 her short fiction is forthcoming in SUSPECT journal. She is at work on a series of short stories on violent desires.