TK CHENG 

CHENG Thim Kian is a Malaysian Chinese film producer and director. He has been selected for the Kyoto Filmmaker Lab (2015) and the Asian Film Academy (2016); held in high regard for the latter, he was awarded with the Dongseo University Scholarship Fund. In 2018, he is one of four directors selected for the Golden Horse Film Academy. Thim Kian is one of only 33 filmmakers selected from across Asia for the 2021 International Film Business Academy of Busan Asian Film School (AFiS). Recently, Thim Kian just attended Fantastic Film School at Bucheon International Film Festival.

 

Currently, Thim Kian is producing two international co-production feature films: Maiden Home, a Korean thriller directed by SINN Kirin, which won the VIPO Award at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival’s NAFF Market 2023 and was also selected for Tokyo Talent 2023; and Paper Wedding, directed by Yudi ZHANG, which was likewise selected for Tokyo Talent 2023.

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Thim Kian also written, directed and produced a series of short films. His directorial efforts include Salary (2016), Men without Women Looking for Bananafish, Girl Without Cat Telling Her Story (2016) and Hikikomori (2014), have been screened at international festivals included Busan International Short Film Festival, Minikino Film Week, Seashorts Film Festival, Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival and etc. Noticeable, his 2018 short film, Baeu,Baeu, won the Most Popular Film Award in Rolling Youth Film Festival 2022 (a new short film festival held in parallel with ACFM and Busan International Film Festival).  

 

Thim Kian also is a filmmaker who works mostly as producer and assistant director. Most recently, he co-produced for a feature film, STONE TURTLE (dir by WOO Ming Jin) has its world premiere and won FIPRESCI award in Locarno International Film Festival 2022. Beside director WOO, Thim Kian working experiences with internationally acclaimed Malaysian directors included but not limited to Edmund YEO, CHONG Keat Aun and James LEE as well as foreigner director like Yukisada Isao. He involved with few projects that went to few film festivals around the world. Notably films directed by Edmund Yeo, MALU (2020), AQERAT (2017); The Story of Southern Islet & Snow in Midsummer (2020, 2023 dir by Chong Keat Aun); Two Sisters (2019, dir James Lee); Fly by Night (2018, dir Zahir Omar); Pigeon (2016, dir Isao Yukisada, Segment from Asian Three-Fold Mirror project); Second Life of Thieves (2014, dir Woo Ming Jin).