About Colin & Yen Yen
December 16th, 2006 by Colin Goh and Yen Yen Woo
The husband-and-wife filmmaking team of DR. WOO YEN YEN and COLIN GOH won the Special Achievement Award at the 2001 Singapore International Film Festival with their debut short film, eAhLong.com.
Yen Yen and Colin went on to write, produce and direct TalkingCock The Movie, a feature film based on TalkingCock.com, the hugely popular and award-winning satirical website they founded, which now garners millions of page views, tens of thousands of subscribers, and has been featured by Time Magazine, Wired, The Economist, the BBC, and was even debated in Singapore’s parliament and mentioned by Singapore’s Prime Minister in his 2006 National Day Rally address. TalkingCock The Movie premiered at the Singapore International Film Festival 2002 before going on to a commercial theatrical run in Singapore. The movie has also been screened at numerous festivals in Asia and Europe, including the Festival du Film Asiatique de Deauville in France. At the Far East Film Festival in Italy, Film Journal critic Adam Hartzell wrote that it was the single film that “stayed with me most beyond the festival… it has a joy more sincere than (films) with many more production techniques at its disposal. …it is truly the film that left the biggest impact on me.” In line with the movie, they also produced a critically-acclaimed comedy CD and The Coxford Singlish Dictionary, a bestselling lexicon of Singaporean vernacular English that the Times of London pronounced “invaluable”.
Yen Yen and Colin completed 3Meals, a short film funded by the Singapore Film Commission, which premiered in New York at the Asian-American International Film Festival in July 2006 and was also selected for a 2-week engagement at the Asian American Arts Centre in Manhattan. 3Meals has also been selected for the 2006 Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival.
Singapore Dreaming, their 2nd feature, opened to rave reviews in their home country and won the Montblanc New Screenwriters Award at the 54th San Sebastian International Film Festival.
Colin, a former practicing attorney with qualifications in Singapore, England and New York, has now turned to full-time writing, producing and directing. He writes regular columns for various publications, including the Straits Times and 8Days. A former Research Fellow and Lecturer at Teachers College, Columbia University, Yen Yen is now an Assistant Professor at Long Island University in New York, where she teaches graduate courses in curriculum theory, history and design.
They have completed three more feature-length scripts that they are now moving into development, all of which are about people whose lives are touched by globalization.
They are also in the process of setting up a film production consultancy drawing from their backgrounds in law, business, education and filmmaking.
CONTACT:
Dr. Woo Yen Yen
B.A. (Hons) (National University of Singapore),
Ed.M. & Ed.D (Teachers College, Columbia University);
email: yenyen@colinandyenyen.com
Mr. Colin Goh
LL.B. (London), Barrister-at-Law (Middle Temple);
former Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore;
LL.M. (Columbia University School of Law);
Attorney-at-Law (New York - non-practicing)
email: colin@colinandyenyen.com
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