Vulnerable and Exposed: Saw Teong Hin on the Travails of Filmmaking
By Lim Wan Phing
May 2024 FEATURE
WHEN SAW TEONG HIN started his filmmaking career in KL, he began at the bottom rung. But to even get a foot in, he had to leaf through the Yellow Pages from A to Z. Thankfully, he got his break at O – at an advertising agency named Ogilvy & Mather.This was the mid-1980s, when telephone calls led him to face-to-face meetings and to a production assistant job not at the agency but elsewhere. Throughout the nineties and noughties, Saw’s...
Lim Wan Phing
is a freelance writer based in Penang. She has a short story collection, Two Figures in a Car published by Penguin SEA.
