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Tan Pin Pin

  • Director
  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
  • Writer
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Tan Pin Pin (b. 1969) is a Singapore director. Her films, explorations of Singapore, her histories and contexts, have screened at Berlin, Pusan, Visions du Reel, Cinema du Reel and Rotterdam. She has won more than 20 awards. Singapore GaGa, one of her most well-known films, was voted the Best Film in 2006 by The Straits Times in Singapore and is described as "One of the best films about Singapore". Pin Pin won a scholarship to study for a film MFA at Northwestern University, USA. Moving House, her thesis film, won the Student Academy Award for Best Documentary.
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      • 5 wins & 11 nominations total

    Known for

    To Singapore, with Love (2013)
    To Singapore, with Love
    7.1
    • Director(as Pin Pin Tan)
    • 2013
    7 Letters (2015)
    7 Letters
    6.9
    • Director(segment "Pineapple Town", as Pin Pin Tan)
    • 2015
    Invisible City (2007)
    Invisible City
    7.1
    • Director(as Pin Pin Tan)
    • 2007
    Singapore GaGa (2005)
    Singapore GaGa
    6.3
    • Director(as Pin Pin Tan)
    • 2005

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    Director



    • Arts Centre
      • Director
      • Post-production



    • Walk walk
      Short
      • Director
      • 2023
    • In Time to Come (2017)
      In Time to Come
      5.0
      • Director (as Pin Pin Tan)
      • 2017
    • 7 Letters (2015)
      7 Letters
      6.9
      • Director (segment "Pineapple Town", as Pin Pin Tan)
      • 2015
    • To Singapore, with Love (2013)
      To Singapore, with Love
      7.1
      • Director (as Pin Pin Tan)
      • 2013
    • Snow City
      Short
      • Director (as Pin Pin Tan)
      • 2011
    • The Impossibility of Knowing
      6.7
      Short
      • Director (as Pin Pin Tan)
      • 2010
    • Invisible City (2007)
      Invisible City
      7.1
      • Director (as Pin Pin Tan)
      • 2007
    • 9th August
      Short
      • Director (as Pin Pin Tan)
      • 2006
    • Singapore GaGa (2005)
      Singapore GaGa
      6.3
      • Director (as Pin Pin Tan)
      • 2005
    • 80kmh
      Short
      • Director (as Pin Pin Tan)
      • 2004
    • Crossings: John Woo
      6.0
      TV Movie
      • Director (as Pin Pin Tan)
      • 2004
    • Gravedigger's Luck
      TV Series
      • Director (as Pin Pin Tan)
      • 2003
    • Moving House (2001)
      Moving House
      7.3
      Short
      • Director (as Pin Pin Tan)
      • 2001
    • Rogers Park
      Short
      • Director (as Pin Pin Tan)
      • 2001

    Second Unit or Assistant Director



    • Under One Roof (1995)
      Under One Roof
      8.0
      TV Series
      • second assistant director
      • 1998
    • Growing Up (1996)
      Growing Up
      8.0
      TV Series
      • assistant director (as Pin Pin Tan)
      • 1997
    • James Lye and Wong Li Lin in Triple Nine (1995)
      Triple Nine
      TV Series
      • first assistant director
      • 1996

    Writer



    • Walk walk
      Short
      • Writer (as Pin Pin Tan)
      • 2023
    • 7 Letters (2015)
      7 Letters
      6.9
      • Writer (segment "Pineapple Town", as Pin Pin Tan)
      • 2015
    • To Singapore, with Love (2013)
      To Singapore, with Love
      7.1
      • Writer (as Pin Pin Tan)
      • 2013
    • 80kmh
      Short
      • Writer (as Pin Pin Tan)
      • 2004
    • Crossings: John Woo
      6.0
      TV Movie
      • Writer (as Pin Pin Tan)
      • 2004
    • Gravedigger's Luck
      TV Series
      • Writer (as Pin Pin Tan)
      • 2003
    • Moving House (2001)
      Moving House
      7.3
      Short
      • Writer (as Pin Pin Tan)
      • 2001

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