Reported in Channel News Asia:

Singaporean filmmaker Kirsten Tan made history on Sunday (Jan 29 ) when her debut feature film POP AYE won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Screenwriting at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival held in Park City, Utah.

You can read the whole story here. The film in question is “executive-produced by director Anthony Chen under his film company Giraffe Pictures, along with producers Lai Weijie and Huang Wenhong.” Lai Weijie is one of a recent graduate of the department (see also this). Our heartiest congratulations to Weijie and the whole team at Giraffe!