The heartiest of congratulations to my ‘long time no see’ buddy, Chiang Wei Liang, whose film, Mongrel (2024), won the Cannes Camera d’Or – Special Mention Award.
Wei Liang has always had the sheer talent, discipline and perseverance to match his vision of himself as a filmmaker. I was fortunate to have met him on the set of a Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information final-year student project circa 2010 when we were helping our seniors. Later, we worked together on what was then only the 3rd Perspectives Film Festival, the longest student-run film festival in Singapore today.
My fondest memory has got to be a car ride together when he told me that he wanted to make films overseas and didn’t mind leaving Singapore to achieve his dreams. (Boy, he has been a man of his word all these years.)
I also have to thank him for introducing me to Edward Yang. His small but generous gesture of lending me his Yi Yi DVD (or was it VCD?) became one of the most inspiring moments in my undergrad years – it fundamentally opened the door for me to explore Taiwanese cinema.
Wishing the Mongrel team all the success!
Eternality Tan 
The film is getting some encouraging reviews. I hope it will get to a streaming platform in due course. Nice to know that you have a personal connection with him.
LikeLiked by 1 person
It should have the legs to do well in the festival circuits till the end of the year. Hopefully a streamer will pick it up thereafter in 2025!
LikeLiked by 1 person