Producer
Leon Cheo
12 films
Leon Cheo is an award-winning director whose short film “SIN-SFO” won Best Live Action and Best Director at the 2019 National Youth Film Awards in Singapore. His web series “People Like Us” won ‘Best Short TV Drama’ at the 2016 ITVFest (Vermont), ‘Best Web Drama Series’ at the Formosa Festival of International Filmmaker Awards, and ‘Best Supporting Actor – Drama’ at the 2017 Indie Series Awards. The series is distributed in the United States on premium LGBT cable channel HereTV. Leon’s short films have screened at festivals in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Seoul, Bangkok, Tokyo, Tehran, Germany, Italy, and more. Highlights include “The Three Sisters” which won ‘Best Short Film’ at the 2012 NETPAC-Jogja Asian Film Festival and “Move Out Notice” which broadcast on the Lifetime (Asia) channel. His short film “Nuts” received honorable mention for the YOMYOMF Interpretations 2.0 competition, founded by Justin Lin (“Fast & Furious”, “Star Trek: Beyond”) to foster and develop Asian American voices in entertainment and the arts. A graduate of Chapman University with a BFA in Creative Producing, and Ngee Ann Polytechnic with a diploma in Film, Sound & Video, Leon Cheo is also an alumnus of Outfest InFusion (2016), Berlinale Talents (2014), Asian Film Academy (2013) and Tokyo Talent Campus (2012).
Best known for
Filmography 12
Orang Minyak
2026 · Writer, Director
302
2024 · Writer, Director
The 25th Filial Exemplar
2022 · Director, Writer
Two Is Enough
2022 · Writer, Director
SIN-SFO
2018 · Writer, Director
7 Letters
2015 · Producer
Move Out Notice
2015 · Producer, Director
On IndieFlix
As You Were
2014 · Producer
The Three Sisters
2012 · Writer, Producer
Swing
2010 · Writer, Director
On Fawesome
The Casuarina Cove
2009 · Ordely Room Clerk
On Film Movement Plus
Nightless Day
2007 · Writer, Director