Ms Khoo Sim Eng

2018 - Present
Member, Films Consultative Panel, Infocomm Media Development Authority, Singapore

Singapore Film Industry

Streaming, Video-on-Demand

Film Adaptation

Moderator for Singapore Writers Festival panel discussion “Shaping Singapore through Fiction” with authors Meihan Boey, Ng Yi‑Sheng, Sunita Sue Leng, and Rachel Tey, 15 November 2025.

Moderator for Q&A on We Can Save the World with director Cheng Chai Hong, producers Tan Jia Min and Lee Yi Jia, and co‑producer Martin Loh, GV Cineleisure (SHBS–Film Studies Singapore Film screening), 24 October 2025.

Moderator for Q&A on A Good Child with director Ong Kuo Sin, GV Suntec (SHBS Alumni Movie for Good), 4 October 2025.

Moderator for “Creativity: A Gift, Cultivated or More?” for NLB’s Thrive@Libraries 2025 with panellists Bill Burnett, Susie Wise, Calvin Soh, and Associate Professor Cheng Chi‑Ying, 16 August 2025.

Moderator for Q&A on Wonderland with director Chai Yee Wei and producer/co‑screenwriter Michelle Chang, GV Plaza Singapura (SHBS–Film Studies Singapore Film screening), 19 August 2024.

Moderator for “The Smart Reader: The Best of Print and Screens” for NLB's Reading in the Age of Distraction series, with panellists Prof. Ladislao Salmerón (University of Valencia) and Dr. Annika Schwabe (University of Austria), 6 July 2024.

Moderator for book launch of graphic novel The Showgirl and the Minister (written by Felix Cheong, illustrated by Arif Rafhan, published Nov 2023), 13 January 2024.

Moderator for Q&A on Dreaming and Dying with director Nelson Yeo, producer Sophia Sim, cinematographer Lincoln Yeo, and sound designer Cheng Lijie, GV x The Projector @ Cineleisure (SHBS–Film Studies Singapore Film screening), 16 December 2023.

Moderator for Q&A on La Luna with director M. Raihan Halim, GV Plaza Singapura (SHBS–Film Studies Singapore Film screening), 8 November 2023.

Speaker at Screenwriters Association (Singapore) on the Singapore film and TV landscape for the Atlas writing/pitching programme, 4 May 2023.

Moderator for Asian Film Archive’s retrospective on director/actor Mat Sentol with panellists Dr. Hatta Azad Khan (film director), Hassan Muthalib (film historian), and Chew Tee Pao (film archivist), 19 May 2022.

Moderator for “Language, Camera, Action!” panel discussion with Kan Lume (director), Don Aravind (director), Wan Firzaleenazrah (director/supervising scriptwriter), and Yeo Min Hui (researcher) for SUSS Language Forum, 10 September 2021.

Moderator for “Environmental Documentaries” with Zoran Lee Pecic (University of Copenhagen) and Karsten Krueger (Shantou University) for the 13th Asian Cinema Studies Conference at Lasalle College of the Arts, 26 June 2019.

Quoted in “A Former Millionaires’ Club and a Bookshop Hope to Start a New Home for Art‑house Films.” Straits Times, 28 December 2025 by Chin Soo Fang. https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/community/a-former-millionaires-club-and-a-bookstore-hope-to-start-a-new-home-for-art-house-films

Quoted in “Why Cinemas are Still Thriving in Some Countries — and It’s Not Such an Easy Formula to Copy.” Channel News Asia Today, 6 September 2025 by Taufiq Zalizan. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/today/big-read/cinema-attendance-decline-future-movie-theatres-5332536

Actor in Caifan Haiku (directed by Jonathan Choo), Official Selection Zinebi 2022 International Festival of Documentary & Short Film.

Interview: “7% of Singaporeans Did Not Read in the Past 12 Months.” CNA News, Channel 5 News, Channel 8 News, Channel U News, 9 June 2017.

Live Interview: “May the 4th — Star Wars Day.” CNA First Look Asia, 4 May 2017.