Chai Yee-Wei / Blood Ties Although Yee-wei graduated with a business degree, his passion has always been in film art. He had taken film, TV and video courses in his college (University of Michigan) years and has always been exploring this interest part-time. But in mid 2005, he decided to go full-time into the media industry and has since been writing and directing short films extensively.
He had won a Merit Award at Panasonic MDA DFF 2005 (for Lau-Sai, Diarrhea) and Fly By Night 2005 Judges’ Pick (for Loser).
“Blood Ties” is his latest short that has won the 3rd prize for the 2nd Panasonic MDA Digital Film Fiesta, 2nd prize at the 2nd Rebel Planet of Hollywood Short Film Fest (Horror Category), and it is official selection for the 2007 Asian Film Symposium S-Express Showcase, The 2007 Singapore Season showcase in Beijing Film Academy, as well as the 3rd Evil City Film Fest of NYC 2007.
Yee-wei is now in preproduction and working on the script development for Blood Ties the feature film right now.
Director's Statement:
A feature version of the film is in the works in collaboration with Oak3 pictures. It should be completed and released by the end of 2008
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