Zihan Loo

Zihan Loo (罗子涵)
Born	11 November 1983 (1983-11-11) Singapore
Occupation	Actor, film director and dancer
Years active	2007–present
Website
www.loozihan.com

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Loo.

Zihan Loo (Chinese: 罗子涵; pinyin: Luō Zihán, born 11 November 1983) is a gay Singaporean actor, film director and dancer.

He has been open about both his own homosexuality and depicting gay themes in his films, despite the subject being particularly taboo in Southeast Asian society. His first film, Solos, was withdrawn from its début screening at the 20th Singapore International Film Festival due to its explicit depiction of homosexual sex. Instead it premièred at the 12th Pusan International Film Festival in the city of Pusan in South Korea and became the first Singaporean film to be selected for the American Film Institute Festival in Los Angeles, going on to win the Nuovo Sguardi Award in the 23rd Turin Gay and Lesbian Festival, in the city of Turin in Italy. It was awarded by the jury to the film which "reflects the evolution of queer cinema".

Filmography and theatrical works

• "Chancre" (2011 short film) - director
• "Aemaer" (2010 short film) - director
• Threshold (2009 film) - writer and director
• Past Carin’ (2009 play) — multimedia design
• Frozen Angels (2009 play) — multimedia design
• Gemuk Girls (2008 play) — multimedia design
• Pleasure Factory (2007 film) — actor
• Solos (2007 film) — writer, director and actor
• Autopsy (2007 documentary short) — writer, director and actor
• Embryo (2006 short film) — writer, director
• Untitled (2006 short film) — writer, director and actor

External links

• Official website
• Zihan Loo at the Internet Movie Database
• Silencing Singapore, interview with The Advocate, 4 June 2009