Kelvin Tong is a multifaceted filmmaker known for his versatility in navigating both mainstream movies and art-house cinema, with a career spanning over two decades.
He began his filmmaking journey in 1995 with the short film Moveable Feast, co-directed with Jasmine Ng and Sandi Tan, which garnered a Special Mention at the 1996 Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival and the Best Short Film Award at the 1995 Singapore International Film Festival Silver Screen Awards.
Moveable Feast, a quirky film about one man's obsession with the rituals of eating, was the first piece of Singapore cinema to be showcased at the Museum Of Modern Art in New York.
Tong's feature debut, Eating Air, co-directed with Jasmine Ng, was showcased extensively in numerous international film festivals and represented Singapore.
His second feature, The Maid, was an atmospheric horror film based on the rituals and superstitions of the Chinese in Singapore, which broke box office records in Singapore and won the Asian Award at the 2006 European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation.
In 2006, Kelvin Tong received Singapore's highest national artistic award for youth – the Young Artist Award.
Tong's subsequent career took on a regional dimension, with his third feature, Love Story (2006),produced by Hong Kong screen legend Andy Lau, winning the Best Director Award at the 2006 Singapore International Film Festival and being chosen as the closing film at the 2006 Locarno International Film Festival.
His fourth feature, Rule #1 (2007),was a supernatural noir thriller shot in Hongkong.
Tong returned to Singapore to make the thriller Kidnapper in 2009 and It's A Great Great World in 2010.
