Writers/Directors/Producers

The husband-and-wife filmmaking team of DR. WOO YEN YEN and COLIN GOH won the Special Achievement Award at the 2001 Singapore International Film Festival with their debut short film, eAhLong.com.

Yen Yen and Colin went on to write, produce and direct TalkingCock The Movie, a feature film based on www.TalkingCock.com, the hugely popular and award-winning satirical website they founded, which now garners millions of page views, tens of thousands of subscribers, and has been featured by Time Magazine, Wired, The Economist, the BBC, and was even debated in Singapore’s parliament. TalkingCock The Movie premiered at the Singapore International Film Festival 2002 before going on to a commercial theatrical run. The movie has also been screened at numerous festivals in Asia and Europe, including the Festival du Film Asiatique de Deauville in France. A t the Far East Film Festival in Italy, Film Journal critic Adam Hartzell wrote that it was the single film that “stayed with me most beyond the festival… it has a joy more sincere than (films) with many more production techniques at its disposal. …it is truly the film that left the biggest impact on me.” In line with the movie, they also produced a critically-acclaimed comedy CD and The Coxford Singlish Dictionary, a bestselling lexicon of Singaporean vernacular English that the Times of London pronounced “invaluable”.

Yen Yen and Colin recently completed 3Meals, a short film funded by the Singapore Film Commission, which premiered in New York in July and was also selected for a 2-week engagement at the Asian American Arts Centre in Manhattan.

Colin, a former practicing attorney with qualifications in three jurisdictions, has now turned to full-time writing and producing. He writes regular columns for the Straits Times, the New Paper, The Edge and 8Days, amongst other publications. A former Research Fellow and Lecturer at Teachers College, Columbia University, Yen Yen is now an Assistant Professor at Long Island University in New York.

They have completed three more feature-length scripts that they are now moving into development, all of which are about people whose lives are touched by globalization.