About the Screenwriter关于编剧
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/limboonsiang
Email: limboonsiang@gmail.com
Boon is an MFA in Screenwriting graduate from Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University, California. His short film project, Call Me Sugarplum (2006), won Audience Favourite Drama at Route 66 Film Festival, USA.
His first feature film, 《大英雄小男人》Petaling Street Warriors, won Best Non-Malay Language Film at the 25th Malaysia Film Festival and was nominated for Best Screenplay at the Golden Wau Awards 2013.
His second film, Orang Itu, received several nominations including Best Screenplay at Anugerah Majlis Pengkritik Filem Kuala Lumpur 2020-2021 (PKP). It is currently on Netflix (https://www.netflix.com/my/title/81490244).
His third film, Pendatang, is the first successfully crowd-funded film in Malaysia. It was released for free on 21 December 2023 on YouTube (https://youtu.be/yI50AwTDpiU?si=5XNO-zzrh9TriYVh)
Other original screenplays include Chained (Gold Award at 2017 California Film Awards); 《出海记》The Lost Chronicle (Top 20 Projects at the 2016 Beijing Film Market; finalist at 2017 Orb Media China-Hollywood Screenwriting Fellowship; Top 6 finalists for the ATF Animation Pitch 2019); 《再见猫城》The City of Cats (Top 20 Projects at the 2018 Beijing Film Market).
Hello Ghost 《对不起,撞到你》/《考什么鬼》(Die Die Top Student), Pendatang and Jadian 《异变》were chosen as part of the Hot List Screenplays of Kuman Pictures and Feisk Productions' Horror Screenwriting Contest 2019. Makhluk got into the Hot List of Kuman Pictures’ Horror-Thriller Screenwriting Contest 2022.
Most of the screenplays above were developed under the auspices of Low Ngai Yuen, president of Kakiseni.
林文祥為美國加州查普曼大學Chapman University劇本創作碩士。首部短片《Call Me Sugarplum》於2006年獲得美國Route 66電影節最受觀眾喜愛大獎;首部新馬電影《大英雄.小男人》榮獲2013年馬來西亞電影節最佳非馬來語電影大獎,亦獲得首屆金箏獎最佳劇本提名。第二部電影《Orang Itu》目前在新馬Netflix播映,並且獲得《2020/2021吉隆坡影评人协会大獎》(Anugerah Majlis Pengkritik Filem Kuala Lumpur)6項提名,包括最佳劇本。第三部電影《Pendatang》為大馬史上第一部總籌成功的電影計劃,並於2023年12月21日於Youtube上架,供全球觀眾觀賞。
其他原創劇本包括:
《詭憶》
2014年南韓富川國際奇幻電影節亞洲奇幻電影計畫市場專案;2017年第七屆北京國際電影節電影市場項目創40大優秀項目;2017年好萊塢劇本大賽驚悚類型組別銀獎得主作品
《詭屋》
2017年加州電影獎金獎得主作品
《出海記》
2016年北京國際電影節電影市場20大優秀項目; 2017年奧普傳媒中國-好萊塢劇本大賽決賽作品;2019年ATF Animation Pitch決賽作品
《再見貓城》
2018年北京國際電影節電影市場20大優秀項目
《PENDATANG》、《考什麼鬼》)與《異變》
三部入圍2019年Kuman Pictures-Feisk Productions‘ 恐怖驚悚劇本比賽七大最佳作品
《MAKHLUK》(怪)
獲選為2022年Kuman Pictures 恐怖驚悚劇本比賽七大最佳作品之一
*以上多部電影皆通過劉藝苑(Low Ngai Yuen)編劇培養計劃下所開發。