Tan Pin Pin (Chinese: 陈彬彬; pinyin: Chén Bīnbīn) is a Singapore-based film director. She studied at the Raffles Girls' Secondary School and Victoria Junior College. Her credits include Singapore GaGa, which had a sold out seven week theatrical run in Singapore. The film, a survey of Singaporean life as expressed in sounds, has played in film festivals around the world.[1][2]
Her short film Moving House won Best Documentary at the Student Academy Awards in 2002.[3] Other awards include two Asian Television Awards, Best Documentary at the US ASEAN Film and Photography Festival in 2006, and ELLE magazine's Filmmaker of the Year.
Her 2003 documentary 80kmh is a single continuous take of the 38-minute long drive across the island of Singapore on the Pan Island Expressway, and the view along the way. She intends to film a repeat trip every year, so that she can show all ten films side by side in 2013.[4]
Her latest documentary, Invisible City, on the documentary instinct in Singapore, was released on 22 July 2007.[5] It screened at Berlinale, Pusan. Invisible City won awards at Cinema du Reel and Taiwan International Documentary Festival. Her films are distributed by Objectifs Films.
Tan Pin Pin has an MFA from Northwestern University.