BRADLEY LIEW

Malaysia born, Manila-based, Bradley Liew is the CEO of Epicmedia Productions Inc. He’s an alumnus of the Asian Film Academy, where he was Awarded Lumos Award for Outstanding Performance from (...) celebrated Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke; the NAFF Fantastic Film School, Berlinale Talents, Talents Tokyo, Locarno Filmmakers Academy, EAVE Ties That Bind and the Sam Spiegel International Film Lab. He’s a Group Leader for the Malaysian Development Lab for Fiction Feature Films (Mylab) and has also served as part of the jury at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. As a Producer, he focuses on championing both seasoned and upcoming directors with distinct and uncompromising voices. He has produced a trio of Lav Diaz’s films, including the anti-musical 'Season Of The Devil' (Berlinale Competition), 16mm film-noir 'When The Waves Are Gone' (Venice Out of Competition), and 'Essential Truths of the Lake' (Locarno Competition); as well as Kenneth Dagatan’s Sundance Midnight’s 'In My Mother’s Skin’, which was sold to Amazon. Additionally, he has coproduced ‘Nocebo', starring Eva Green and Mark Strong; Pham Ngoc Lan’s 'Cu Li Never Cries' (Berlinale Best First Feature) and Simon Jaquemet’s ‘Electric Child’ (Locarno Piazza Grande). In 2024, his films ‘Viet and 'Nam' by Truong Minh Quy competed in the Cannes Film Festival (Un Certain Regard), as well as 'Directors Factory Philippines’ which pre-opened the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. As a Director/Producer, his debut feature, ‘Singing in Graveyards’ made its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival Critics’ Week. It went on to compete and screen in over 30 festivals and won best film in both Kolkata and Malaysia. His sophomore feature, the creature-horror ‘Motel Acacia’, made its world premiere at the Tokyo International Film Festival and was the closing film of the Jogja Netpac Film Festival. The film was sold to North America, Japan and multiple Southeast Asia. He has done extensive work in the realm of narrative series as a show runner for Astro Malaysia’s Boo: A Philippine Horror Anthology and Cignal TV’s Now Streaming. He is also the writer-director for the detective-noir series, The Tapes (iWant & Netflix) and HBO’s Folklore 2: Ayizah, Ayizah.