ABOUT YEN
Filmmaker | Director | Producer
Graduated from University of Wisconsin and New York University in Film& TV in 1996, Yen has successfully blended her unique skills of film and video making to direct many artistic productions in Oak3 Films since 1996.
With her passion in children content, from 2012 to 2017, she directed 4 seasons of Ollie & Friends, a highly rated and successful pre-school program for local children for okto. In 2019, she directed the award-winning children’s program “Mama Ku Sayang”.
Besides children program, 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” nominated in Asian TV Awards 2023. In 2024, her 2nd movie “The Chosen One” is shown in Taiwan, Malaysia & Cambodia with 4 International Award including Best Director in New York Film Awards in 2025 and now on Netflix.
In 2025, she moved into youth content and directed Viddsee & MediaCorp Chinese idol drama series, “Cellphone Swap” as well as MediaCorp first TikTok English Drama series, “My Boyfriend Owns A Bank”.
Besides directing Yen was also an Executive Producer in Oak 3 Films. 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, “Light Speed” nominated for Emmy International 2022, Her latest kids drama “Agent of Sprawl” won Bronze Award in New York Film & TV Festival in 2023.
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, Amazon and HBO Asia. In 2023, 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.