A WEE Thing

A graduate of Brown University (Class of '96) in America , with a BA in Art Semiotics, Li Lin also spent a semester in NYU doing “Sight and Sound”, an intensive filmmaking production course. Since her graduation she has been working in Singapore as a freelance television producer/director. She's an avid short filmmaker and has done several short films in Singapore so far, three of which have been award winners at the Singapore International Film Festival and two have won awards at American Film Festivals. In January last year the Singapore Film Society organized a retrospective of all her work for members and the public. This event was a first ever SFC retrospective of a local short filmmaker. In 2004, the Singapore history museum (in conjunction with the Substation) organized another retrospective of her work.

Since the middle of 2004, Li Lin has been hard at work on her first feature film "Gone Shopping" which has finally been completed and will be released this year in July 2007. Please log on to www.goneshoppingthemovie.com for more information.

Year	Short Films	Achievements
2003	Autograph Book	Winner of “Special Achievement Award” 2003 Singapore International Film Festival Official Selection and Recepient of "Certificate of Excellence, Live Action short film or Video", Chicago International Children's Film Festival 2004 “Official Selection” 2005 Tribeca Film Festival in New York
2002	Holiday	Finalist at the 2002 Singapore International Film Festival. “Official Selection” Los Angeles International Short Film Festival (LA shorts) “Official Selection” Leeds International Short Film Festival “Official Selection” Pusan Asian Short Film Festival “Official Selection” Commonwealth International Film Festival
2002	Xi Mei Por/ Ah Guai Por	2 mini Documentaries on Samsui Women, part of “Remembering Samsui Women”, Nokia Art Exhibition 2002.
2002	Homemaker	Part Of the commissioned “HOME” Project under Substation short film festival. “Official Selection” Commonwealth Film Festival 2002 Official Selection and Winner of “Special Jury, Best Comedy” Georgetown Independent Film Festival, 2003
2001	Lunchtime	Official Selection Pusan Asian Short Film Festival (PASSF) 2001 “Official Selection”, Cinematexas 2001 “Official Selection”, Tokyo New Cinema 2001 “Official Selection”, Women in Film Festival, Singapore Substation 2001
1999	Another Guy	Winner of “Special Achievement Award” at the 1999 Singapore International Film Festival. Screened at Hollywood Shorts, LA, 2000
1998	His Name Was WONG	Finalist at the 1998 Singapore International Film Festival
1997	Norman On The Air	Winner of “Best Director Award” at the Singapore International Film Festival, 1997. Competitive Shorts category.

Associate Producer 1996-1998
Was an Associate Producer for English Sitcoms at the Mediacorp (then known as TCS). During her time there she worked on three sitcoms, “Three Rooms”, “The Donny Lee Show” and “Phua Chu Kang”. As an AP, work scope included camera directing, floor managing, scheduling, casting, locations and props and wardrobe. Underwent multi -camera directing training, production training and acting workshops.

Freelance Production Manager/Researcher 1999
“From Kachang Puteh To Popcorn”, documentary about the history of film in Singapore. Job scope included research, assistant directing and production managing. Arts Central/The Moving Visuals company.

Freelance T.V Programs Directing/Writing/Producing 1999-2003
For all the following projects, Li Lin was hired as the director but in many projects she also served in the capacity of producer and writer.

Music Walk-1999 (Monster Films/TCS 5)

First Fortunes- “Dinesh Singh”, “Diana Young” and “Dee Dee Gupta”-2000 (The Moving Visuals Company/CNA)

Crimewatch-2 Eps-2000 (Ochre Pictures/TCS5)

On The Pulse-“Animal Therapy” Ep and “Stress Management” Ep-2001 (Ochre Pictures/TCS5)

Makansutra-“Beach Road”-2001 (Right Angle Media/Mediaworks)

Beyond the Facade-“Shop-houses” Ep-2002 (Oak-3 Films/CNA)

Modern Migrants-Pilot and Ep 5- 2003 (Oak-3 Films/CNA)

Festivals Of Asia-“Go-go Getai”-2003 (360/Arts Central)

“Poetry Slam-Poets Among Us”- 2004 (Kismet Films/Central)

“Life Anthology” – 2 Episodes 2004 (Verite Productions/Channel i)

“Design Life” – 2004 (VHQ/Central)

“Caregiver” telemovie-2004 (Verite Productions/Channel-I)

“Till Death” telemovie-2004 (Verite Productions/Channel-I)

“Destination Dance”-2005 (Kismet Films/Central)

“Hidden Dragons”-2005 (Oak-3 Films/Central)

“Shooting Stars”-2005 (Rushes Productions/Channel 5)

Freelance TVC Commerical Directing 2000-2003

3 Commercials for Chivas Regal “Do you know?” Champaign for Discovery Asia-2000

4 Commercials for Ipreciation Art Gallery/One Fullerton “Rejoice, Renew and Rejuvenate” for CNBC/STB-2002

Commercial for NATAS for Kismet Films for Mediacorp8 and 5-2002

Commercial for Lilliput Miniature Golf Course for Kismet Films for channel I and U-2004

2 Commercials for Olympus Digital Cameras for Crush Advertising/Kismet Films-2004

3 Commercials for Fancyl House beauty products for Crush Advertising/Kismet Films-2004

Freelance Corporate Directing 1999-2003

Clients: CALTEX, MCDS, CAMP-IMH, PSB, STAMFORD TYRES INTERNATIONAL, MFA, SIA and others.

Part-time Teaching 2002-2003

Lasalle SIA, Film elective Program, Objectifs School of Film and Photography, Digital Filmmaking Workshop I