SIYOU TAN | 陈思攸
Siyou is a Los Angeles based filmmaker originally from Singapore. Her latest short STRAWBERRY CHEESECAKE premiered at the Locarno Film Festival. Her previous short HELLO AHMA, completed under the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women, played in competition at the 44th Toronto International Film Festival and the 70th Berlinale. Most recently, she has been selected at Berlinale’s 2022 Talents Tokyo, Busan’s 2019 Asian Film Academy, the 2019-21 Universal Directors Initiative, and the 2021 Commercial Directors Diversity Program. She is a film graduate of Wesleyan University.
Siyou is working on her first feature AMOEBA with support from the Hubert Bals Fund. To date, AMOEBA has been awarded the Most Promising Project at the 2019 Southeast Asian Film Lab, the Open SEA Fund Award at the 2021 SEAFIC and the 2023 SFFILM Rainin Grant. After being developed at the TorinoFilmLab’s 2022 ScriptLab, the project has gone onto selections at Berlinale’s 2023 Co-Production Market and the Far East Film Festival’s 2023 Focus Asia, where it won the TAICCA/Focus Asia Co-production Award.
As a visual artist with a printmaking background, she has also worked as an Art Director at Jesse Dylan’s production company Wondros. In her role, she combined fine art and film for locally and internationally-based commercials, music videos, documentaries, VR pieces, and campaigns for non-profit organizations. Her work has garnered several awards, including a Cannes Lion, two AICP awards, a Ciclope Award and the Jury Award at SXSW. Her commercial clients have included Chanel, Mercedes, Nike, Taschen and Vanity Fair.
She <3s lithographs and acid baths, film noir, street art, the misunderstood Rafflesia.
Contact her at tansiyou (at) gmail (dot) com
Or listen to a podcast she was on.