‘Stranger Eyes’ Director Yeo Siew Hua On How Surveillance Impacted His Mystery Thriller — Venice
deadline.comAfter becoming the first Singaporean filmmaker to win Locarno’s Golden Leopard for A Land Imagined, Yeo Siew Hua will break new ground again with mystery thriller Stranger Eyes, which is the first Singapore film to premiere in-competition at the Venice Film Festival.
The Singapore-Taiwan-France-U.S. co-production stars a Taiwanese ensemble cast featuring legendary actor-director Lee Kang-Sheng, Wu Chien-Ho, Annica Panna and Vera Chen.
Malaysian actor Pete Teo and Singaporean actress Xenia Tan also appear in the film. Yeo conceived the Stranger Eyes project more than 10 years ago but he and Akanga Film Asia’s veteran producer Fran Borgia hit several “dead ends” with funding. “We decided that we were going to try something else and pitch different projects, so that’s how A Land Imagined came about,” Yeo told Deadline.
A Land Imagined, Yeo’s second feature, also went on to clinch Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Film Score at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Awards in 2019. “After A Land Imagined garnered success, we decided to re-look at Stranger Eyes,” said Yeo.
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