Singapore-Born Filmmaker Weaves Dark Twist on Family Duty Into Short Film

When writer-director Leon Cheo was crafting his Indeed Rising Voices short “The 25th Filial Exemplar,” he drew inspiration from old Hollywood films with terrifying depictions of the parent-child relationship, both classic (“Psycho”) and unintentionally camp (“Mommie Dearest”). But his initial creative spark came from something much closer to home: an article he read about a […]