Boon Siang Lim
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Boon is an MFA in Screenwriting graduate from Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University, California. His short film project, Call Me Sugarplum (2006), won Audience Favourite Drama at Route 66 Film Festival, USA.
His first feature film, Petaling Street Warriors, won Best Non-Malay Language Film at the 25th Malaysia Film Festival and was nominated for Best Screenplay at Golden Wau Awards 2013.
His second film, Orang Itu, received several nominations including Best Screenplay at Anugerah Majlis Pengkritik Filem Kuala Lumpur 2020-2021 (PKP). It is on Netflix Malaysia and Singapore as of July 2023.
Other original screenplays include Chained (Gold Award at 2017 California Film Awards); The Lost Chronicle (Top 20 Projects at the 2016 Beijing Film Market; finalist at 2017 Orb Media China-Hollywood Screenwriting Fellowship; Top 6 finalists for the ATF Animation Pitch 2019); The City of Cats (Top 20 Projects at the 2018 Beijing Film Market).
Hello Ghost (Die Die Top Student), Pendatang and Jadian were chosen as part of the Hot List Screenplays of Kuman Pictures and Feisk Productions' Horror Screenwriting Contest 2019. Makhluk got into the Hot List of Kuman Pictures' Horror-Thriller Screenwriting Contest 2022.
Pendatang has been successfully crowdfunded via Indiegogo, making it the first Malaysian feature film project to have done so.
His first feature film, Petaling Street Warriors, won Best Non-Malay Language Film at the 25th Malaysia Film Festival and was nominated for Best Screenplay at Golden Wau Awards 2013.
His second film, Orang Itu, received several nominations including Best Screenplay at Anugerah Majlis Pengkritik Filem Kuala Lumpur 2020-2021 (PKP). It is on Netflix Malaysia and Singapore as of July 2023.
Other original screenplays include Chained (Gold Award at 2017 California Film Awards); The Lost Chronicle (Top 20 Projects at the 2016 Beijing Film Market; finalist at 2017 Orb Media China-Hollywood Screenwriting Fellowship; Top 6 finalists for the ATF Animation Pitch 2019); The City of Cats (Top 20 Projects at the 2018 Beijing Film Market).
Hello Ghost (Die Die Top Student), Pendatang and Jadian were chosen as part of the Hot List Screenplays of Kuman Pictures and Feisk Productions' Horror Screenwriting Contest 2019. Makhluk got into the Hot List of Kuman Pictures' Horror-Thriller Screenwriting Contest 2022.
Pendatang has been successfully crowdfunded via Indiegogo, making it the first Malaysian feature film project to have done so.
