Foo Fei Ling - Asia Pacific Screen Awards

Foo Fei Ling is an independent filmmaker born and raised in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She is an alumna of Berlinale Talent Campus, Rotterdam Lab and EAVE Ties That Bind. Her works include If It’s Not Now, Then When? (James Lee, 2012) and Voyage to Terengganu (Amir Muhammad and Badrul Hisham Ismail, 2016).

In 2019, she and writer-director Amanda Nell Eu set up Ghost Grrrl Pictures, a film company to produce female-centric stories from the Southeast Asian region. Her latest film Tiger Stripes (Amanda Nell Eu, 2023), an eight-country co-production, premiered at Semaine de la Critique du Festival de Cannes where it won the Grand Prix.

Accolades

Best Youth Film, 2023

Amanda Nell Eu and Foo Fei Ling and Patrick Mao Huang and Fran Borgia and Juliette Lepoutre and Pierre Menahem and Jonas Weydemann and Ellen Havenith and Yulia Evina Bhara

Best Youth Film, 2023

Amanda Nell Eu and Foo Fei Ling and Patrick Mao Huang and Fran Borgia and Juliette Lepoutre and Pierre Menahem and Jonas Weydemann and Ellen Havenith and Yulia Evina Bhara

Tiger Stripes

The first amongst her friends to hit puberty, Zaffan, 12, discovers a terrifying secret about her body. Ostracised by her community, Zaffan fights back, learning…

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Films

Tiger Stripes

Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore, France, Germany, Netherlands, Indonesia, Qatar

Tiger Stripes

The first amongst her friends to hit puberty, Zaffan, 12, discovers a terrifying secret about her body. Ostracised by her community, Zaffan fights back, learning…

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