Ler Jiyuan

Ler Jiyuan is the director of several high-profile Singaporean TV dramas such as HBO Asia’s Grisse, Mediacorp Telemovie Gone Case, based on the award-winning novel by Dave Chua and Telemovie The Love Machine, which was nominated for five awards at the 2016 Asian Television Awards. Ler is the writer/director for short films The Drum, which won the 2018 Viddsee Juree Gold Awards and was in competition at the 2017 Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival; and Paper House, which premiered at the 2017 Singapore Chinese Film Festival. He is the Showrunner/Writer/Director of critically acclaimed HBO Asia series Invisible Stories, which went on to garner several awards and nominations, including a Best National Director award for Ler at the 2020 Creative Content Asia Awards. Invisible Stories was listed by Variety magazine as one of the top 15 International Series of 2020.

Jessica Lee

Jessica Lee is Head of Development at Beach House Pictures, where she oversees the development of premium factual and unscripted programming such as The Raincoat Killer: Chasing a Predator in Korea (Netflix), Wild City: River World (CNA), Art of Craft (CCTV9), and more. She is the only Singaporean to win the FreedomFilmFestival 2020 award for her directorial debut, The Shades of Love, a powerful documentary on sex workers in Singapore. Jessica also collaborated with the National Library Board to direct a documentary series about women in history, set to premiere in 2022. She is currently producing another feature documentary for Netflix and directing a premium factual series for CNA. Her past credits include working at VICE’s production office in China and she was a researcher on award-winning shows for National Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel, HGTV, CCTV, and CNA.