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Seng Kiat Tan. Writer: Shuttle Life. Seng Kiat nominated for Best New Director and Best Cinematography from the prestigious 54th Taipei Golden Horse Awards in 2017 with his most recent film 'Shuttle Life', which won the grand prize of The Golden Horse Film Project Promotion (FPP) 2014 and received fund of NTD 1 million to produce the film.
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Jan 29, 2019 · Tan Seng Kiat was born in Malaysia. He studied filmmaking at the National Taiwan University of Arts. He is the director of the short 32°C Fall in Love. “Shuttle Life” is his debut feature film.
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Jan 23, 2018 · Director Tan Seng Kiat’s powerful debut feature charts the daily struggles of a working class family trapped below the poverty line in Kuala Lumpur.
- A Sobering Family Drama
- Realistic Settings
- Renewed Hope?
- Systemic Societal Woe
Shuttle Life won the 2014 Taipei Golden Horse Film Project Promotion’s (FPP) Grand Prize, a grant to support projects in the pre-production stage. Prior to Shuttle Life, director Tan polished his filmmaking acumen through short films that navigated the idiosyncrasies and transience of human relationships. These shorts include 32°C Fall in Love (201...
Tan situates his maligned characters in the suburbs of Pudu, Kuala Lumpur—a historic township in the midst of urban development. Qiang, Hui Shan, and their mother reside in the area’s low-cost flats subsidised by the Ministry of Urban Wellbeing, Housing, and Local Government’s Citizen Housing Programme (Program Perumahan Rakyat, or PPR). 53.8% of M...
Nevertheless, the inauguration of the new Pakatan Harapan government in the post-GE14 (Malaysia’s 14th General Election in May 2018) New Malaysia brings renewed hope for improvements in alleviating the hardship of the urban poor. Earlier this year, Malaysia’s incoming Deputy Minister of Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government announced plans ...
Despite Qiang’s persistent display of pragmatism in dealing with his struggles, his desolation compels him to resort to petty crime and confrontations with government authorities. Qiang’s moral compass is questionable, yet his dilemmas also reveal the flaws of Malaysia’s social systems. Implemented in the 1970s, the New Economic Policy (NEP) aimed ...
Dec 19, 2017 · Featuring strong performances and gritty cinematography, the film marks an award-winning feature debut for director Tang Seng Kiat, clinching Best Film, Best Actor and Best Cinematography in the Asian New Talent Award 2017 at the Shanghai International Film Festival.
Jan 28, 2019 · Tan Seng Kiat in his debut directs a film that unfolds like an odyssey, where every port seems to bring more anguish and frustration, in a trip where Ithaca is nowhere to be found, and Ulysses is a man that keeps repeating the path between Scylla and Charybdis.
