Biography
Graduated from University of Wisconsin and followed by a post-graduate degree in Film from the New York University, Yen has successfully blended her unique skills of film and video making to direct many artistic productions such as Road Less Travelled (1997), I Only Care for You (1990), Something Good (2000), Blue Print (2002), Sitting Duck (2004), Blue Window (2006) and a sitcom series School Days (2000-2).
From 2012-2017, she directed the original series of Ollie & Friends, a highly rated and successful pre-school program for local children for okto and its subsequent 4 seasons. In 2019, she directed the award winning Suria children's program about kids' adoption, entitled "Mama Ku Sayang".
In 2021, Yen embarked on her debut foray in the horror genre and directed the tele-drama "Dinner Date" in the "After Dark" series as well as "The Lying Theory" and "Pre-Loved Daughter" in the Viddsee short series. In 2022, with the Finalist winner of "Dinner Date" in New York Festival, she continue another episode of directing in season 2 of After Dark "Girl in the Gap".
Besides directing almost all types of content for the past 26 years, Yen was also an Executive Producer in Oak 3 Films for 24 years. Under her leadership, she built a strong production and post- production team and had consistently collaborated with creative personnel to deliver all the programmes on time and on budget to the broadcasters.
Many of her productions had garnered international awards; "Spelling Armadillo" received a Silver Award at the New York Film & TV Festivals and an Emmy International Nomination in 2015 - the first in Singapore. Subsequent ones include, "The Good Host" nominated for another Emmy in 2018, "FAM!" nominated for Best Comedy in Emmy International 2019.
In 2020, she produced TiTouDao, a period drama that went on to win Best Screenplay representing Singapore in the Asian Academy Creative Awards, Best Art Direction - Silver Awards in the New York Festival and Best Newcomer in the Busan Film Festival. This series garnered high ratings in both the Chinese and English free-to-air channel in Singapore and had concurrent runs on Netflix and HBO Asia. In 2022, due to popular demand, TiTouDao2 was made.
Other international productions that Yen had also produced included the international documentary series "Extinction" for FRANCE 5, "Culinary Asia" & "5 Star Insider" for Discovery Asia, "Moon Bear" for Animal Planet, "Typhoon" for ARTE(Germany, France), Tele-Drama "House of Harmony" starring Fann Wong, Maggie Q and Zheng Pei Pei for ZDF (Germany), "Love Under the Sign of Dragon" starring Wong Lilin for ARD(Germany) and Feature film "Girl In the Park" starring Sigourney Weaver and Kate Bosworth.
