Kirsten Han
An independent filmmaker.
The Story So Far
Kirsten completed the Advance Diploma in Film Production at Ngee Ann Polytechnic under Media Development Authority’s Media Education Scholarship. She also undertook a Master of Fine Arts at New York University’s Graduate Film Program, where she received the prestigious Tisch School of the Arts Fellowship. Prior to that, Kirsten spent a year in South Korea at Jeonbuk Independent Film Association’s Residency Programme and resided in Thailand before establishing herself in New York.
A prolific writer/director, Kirsten’s works exhibit nuanced observations of life and are emotionally evocative cinematic experiences. Kirsten’s works have been screened in over fifty international lm festivals including Rotterdam International Film Festival for Dahdi (2015), Busan International Film Festival for Cold Noodles (2010) and Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, for Play Your Part (2012) and Ella (2015). Ella, a fashion lm directed for Giorgio Armani, was selected for MoMA’s permanent lm collection and screened at the Toronto International Film Festival (2014).
Featured in CNN’s international feature “Ones To Watch” and described by The Straits Times as “a director to look out for”, Kirsten’s recent accolades include the L’Atelier Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival for Popeye. In 2014, Popeye participated in Berlinale Talent’s Script Station. In the same year, Popeye went on to win the Top Prize at the Torino Film Lab while Dahdi was awarded Best Southeast Asian Short Film at the 2014 Singapore International Film Festival.
Works
Sink
2009
Dahdi
2014
Im
2016
Current Projects
A coming-of-age film that explores themes of inter-generational gap in Singapore; contrasting the situations for different races through the perspective of a polo tee.