Bradley Liew

Biography

Bradley Liew is a Malaysian born-Philippines based filmmaker who works as a Director, Producer and Cinematographer in both countries. In 2012, he was accepted into the Asian Film Academy of the Busan IFF where he won the Lumos Award for Outstanding Performance from celebrated Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke. He is also an alumnus of the NAFF Fanastic Film School, Berlinale Talents, Tokyo Talents, Locarno Filmmakers Academy, Eave Ties that Bind and the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab.

In 2016, he completed his first feature film, a Malaysia-Philippine coproduction entitled Singing In Graveyards, which was the recipient of the Visions Sud Est Production Support Fund, the Southeast Asian Film Lab Most Promising Project Award and the Talents Tokyo Next Masters Support Program International Promotion Fund under Producer Bianca Balbuena. Singing In Graveyards made its world premiere in-competition at the 2016 Venice International Film Critics' Week. It went on to festivals such as Thessaloniki, Mostra Sao Paulo, Busan, Hawaii, Minsk, Singapore and won best film in both Kolkata and Malaysia.