Kelvin Tong

Kelvin Tong Weng Kian (born in 1971 or 1972) is a Singaporean film director, screenwriter and producer. He was a former film critic for The Straits Times.

Career Kelvin's passion for theatre and filmmaking began in his secondary school days in Victoria School. He went on to study at Victoria Junior College and law at the National University of Singapore. After a short nine-month stint with law firm, Drew & Napier, following his graduation from law school, Kelvin started out in the film business as a film critic, writing reviews for The Straits Times from 1995 to 1999. He made a short film, Moveable Feast, in 1996 with Sandi Tan and Jasmine Ng Kin Kia. His first feature, co-directed with Jasmine Ng Kin Kia, is "a motorcycle kung-fu love story", titled Eating Air, which was received respectably. The film was produced by Hong Kong–based Focus Films.

In 2007, he directed the horror-comedy Men in White, about four ghosts struggling to survive in Singapore, and which examined the Singaporean obsession with superstitions.

In 2014, Tong became the first Singaporean director to helm a Hollywood film when he started shooting The Faith of Anna Waters (2016), a horror film starring Elizabeth Rice, Matthew Settle and Adrian Pang. He also shot a short film as part of the 7 Letters omnibus to celebrate Singapore's 50th anniversary in 2015.

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