About Philip Cheah

Philip Cheah is a film critic and is the editor of BigO, Singapore's only independent pop culture publication. He is currently program consultant for the Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival, Hanoi Int’l Film Festival, Jaffna International Film Festival and Shanghai International Film Festival. He is Joint President of NETPAC, the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema. He co-founded the South-east Asian Film Festival and is Patron of the SEA (South-east Asia) Screen Academy in Makassar, Indonesia. He is co-director of the Asia Pacific Screen Lab, Australia. He is co-editor of the books, Garin Nugroho: And the Moon Dances; Noel Vera: Critic After Dark and Ngo Phuong Lan: Modernity and Nationality in Vietnamese Cinema. He was given a Honorary Award at the 15th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival (Philippines) 2019, an award for Achievement in the Promotion of Kyrgyz film by the Kyrgyzstan Film Critics in 2010, an award for promoting Vietnamese film by the Vietnam Cinema Association in 2008, an award for Asian Cinema at the 8th Cinemanila International Film Festival (Philippines) 2006, and the Korean Cinema Award at the 9th Pusan International Film Festival in 2004.