Born in 1984, Singapore. Malaysian filmmaker who was trained in Australia and now lives in Japan. Since 2008, Yeo has been writing and directing short films at a prolific rate. He was invited to the competition at the Venice Film Festival with his first Japanese-language short kingyo. In 2010, he made a pair of short films that are thematically linked: Inhalation and Exhalation. Inhalation won the Sonje Award for Best Asian Short Film at the Pusan International Film Festival. 'Exhalation' was screened at the Dubai and Rotterdam International Film Festivals