Loo Zihan – Director / Writer

Within the year of 2005, Zihan directed three short films and edited two others. One of the short films, Untitled (2005), was done in collaboration with Kan Lume and was developed into his debut feature length film, Solos.

Untitled won the top prize at Take 5! Guerrilla Film Making Challenge 2005 with the Singapore History Museum and was subsequently screened in the 3rd Singapore Short Cuts and Short Circuit 2006.

His other short films include Embryo (2006), which was selected by the Asian Film Archive to be screened in a showcase of Singapore Film and Video – “Painkiller for my Foreign Body” with films by other local directors like Tan Pin Pin and Eric Khoo. The screening was held in London, March 2007. Zihan also won the Judges' Choice Award for Fly-By-Night 2006 with his short film Lucilla (2006).

He is reading at the School of Art Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University.