Lim Yen is a Singapore-based storyteller with over 10 years of experience editing short/long-form narrative, docus, mvs, reality, brand films and commercials. She has built a practice rooted in non-conformity, intuition, experimentation, and a sensitivity to spatial rhythm and form.
Read: nuyou interview: Singapore Film Editor Lim Yen
Her latest works include “Dream Stall” comedy-drama feature, anthology feature “Kopitiam Days” for #Sg60, docu feature "E La Nave Va (And The Ship Sails On)" chronicling artist Milenko Prvacki’s life, narrative feature “Orang Ikan” which gala premiered at Tokyo Intl. Film Festival, and streaming on Netflix.
Her recent docu-experimental short “exits / entrances”, won Special Mention at Singapore Youth Film Festival 2025 and screened internationally, a concept of “how not to make a film” conjured in Yucatan, Mexico during Apichatpong Creators Lab’23. She is also an alumni of Cinemovement Lab VII Tokyo 2024, where her WIP co-directed movement short “imawama 今は間” screened at Tokyo Image Forum and Objectifs Singapore in 2025.
Read: Singapore Film Society feature: Different Language, Same Tongue: A Conversation with Lim Yen and her film Exits / Entrances
When she is not film marathoning, you can find her boxing all her problems away in the gym, or running away from them in nature.
Read: nuyou interview: Singapore Film Editor Lim Yen
Her latest works include “Dream Stall” comedy-drama feature, anthology feature “Kopitiam Days” for #Sg60, docu feature "E La Nave Va (And The Ship Sails On)" chronicling artist Milenko Prvacki’s life, narrative feature “Orang Ikan” which gala premiered at Tokyo Intl. Film Festival, and streaming on Netflix.
Her recent docu-experimental short “exits / entrances”, won Special Mention at Singapore Youth Film Festival 2025 and screened internationally, a concept of “how not to make a film” conjured in Yucatan, Mexico during Apichatpong Creators Lab’23. She is also an alumni of Cinemovement Lab VII Tokyo 2024, where her WIP co-directed movement short “imawama 今は間” screened at Tokyo Image Forum and Objectifs Singapore in 2025.
Read: Singapore Film Society feature: Different Language, Same Tongue: A Conversation with Lim Yen and her film Exits / Entrances
When she is not film marathoning, you can find her boxing all her problems away in the gym, or running away from them in nature.