Bradley Liew

Bradley Liew is a Malaysian-born Philippines-based filmmaker who works as a Director, Writer and Producer. In 2012, he was accepted into the Asian Film Academy of the Busan International Film Festival where he won the Lumos Award for Outstanding Performance from celebrated Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke. He is an alumnus of the NAFF Fantastic Film School, Berlinale Talents, Tokyo Talents, Locarno Filmmakers Academy, EAVE Ties That Bind and the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab. In 2016, he completed his first feature film, a Malaysian-Philippine coproduction entitled 'Singing in Graveyards', which made its world premiere in-competition at the Venice International Film Festival Critics' Week. It went on to screen and compete in festivals which included Thessaloniki, Mostra Sao Paulo, Busan, Hawaii, Minsk, Singapore, winning best film in both Kolkata and Malaysia. His second feature, 'Motel Acacia', was at the 2018 Berlinale Co-Production Market, part of the 2017 Sam Spiegel International Film Lab, the 2016 EAVE Ties That Bind and the 2015 NAFF IT Project of the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival. It made its world premiere in the Asian Futures Competition at the Tokyo International Film Festival 2019 and was the closing film of the Jogja Netpac Film Festival. The film is sold to Japan, North America and multiple territories in Southeast Asia. It is also available in Amazon TVOD worldwide. Bradley has gone on to work on multiple long-form narrative series including HBO's Folklore Season 2, the detective thriller 'The Tapes' for iWant (the largest streaming platform in the Philippines). He was the show-runner of Astro Malaysia's 'Doors: A Philippine Horror Anthology' and Cignal Philippines' 'Now Streaming' Anthology Series. He is the Producer of Gerardo Calagui's Those Long Haired Nights (IFF Rotterdam 2017), Lav Diaz's anti-musical: Season Of The Devil (Berlinale Main Competition 2018) his upcoming film-noir When The Waves Are Gone (Philippines, France, Singapore, Denmark, Portugal) and Truong Minh Quy's Viet and Nam (Vietnam, Philippines, Singapore, France, Netherlands). He is also co-producing debut Vietnamese filmmaker Pham Ngoc Lan's Cu Li Never Cries (Vietnam, Philippines, France, Norway) and Lorcan Finnegan's Nocebo (Ireland, UK, Philippines) starring Eva Green and Mark Strong.