Bambby Cheuk
Bambby Cheuk is a Singaporean film producer with an interest in documentary films. She tells empathetic stories of people with special needs, underprivileged youth, environmental and scientific issues. Her works Baby Boy (2020), Breaking News (2022) and The Hacktivist (2022) have been screened in Minikino Film Week, SEOUL International Women's Film Festival and Edinburgh Docufest, and have been acquired by broadcaster Channels NewsAsia and regularly used as training material for tertiary institutions and non-profit organisations. She is an alumni of the 72nd Berlinale Close-Up on Producing Workshop, Full Circle Lab Philippines, Docs by the Sea Creative Producing Lab and Singapore International Film Festival Asian Producers’ Network. She is currently producing two feature documentaries with Pōtocol, and three short films independently as a freelance producer.
Pōtocol - Singapore
Founded in 2014 by film producer and screenwriter Jeremy Chua, Pōtocol focuses on the development and co-production of auteur films from around Asia. Completed films include A Yellow Bird by K. Rajagopal (Cannes Critics’ Week 2016); A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery by Lav Diaz (Silver Bear, Berlinale 2016); Brotherhood by Pepe Diokno (Karlovy Vary IFF 2016); Farewell My Shadow Wandered by Liao Jiekai and Sudhee Liao (IFFR 2021); Rehana Maryam Noor by Abdullah Mohammad Saad (Cannes Un Certain Regard 2021); Autobiography by Makbul Mubarak (Fipresci Award, Venice IFF 2022); Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell by Pham Thien An (Camera d'Or 2023), Last Shadow at First Light by Nicole Midori Woodford (San Sebastian 2023) and Tomorrow Is a Long Time (Berlinale 2023)
Projects in development
The Poet’s Unrest, dir. Liao Jiekai (hybrid documentary feature)
The Birdwatcher, dir. Sai Kong Kham (documentary feature) [co-producer]
Bûhe, dir. Nikki Tan (documentary short)
Summer On Its Deathbed, dir. Kyaw Shoon Le Yee (short)
Projects in production / post-production
Children’s Day, dir. Giselle Lin (short)
Released films
Breaking News, dir. Jessica Heng (short)
The Hacktivist, directed by Daniel Kuan (documentary short)
Just A Call Away, directed by Jessica Heng (documentary short)
Baby Boy, dir. Jessica Heng (documentary short)
Sea Of Fertility, dir. Bambby Cheuk (documentary short)
Koon Seng Road, dir. Jessica Heng (documentary short)
