Who: Award-winning Singapore film-maker Eric Khoo is widely credited with jump-starting the revival of the local film industry with his first feature film, Mee Pok Man (1995). It screened at around 60 film festivals, including Venice and Berlin.

Through his companies Zhao Wei Films and Gorylah Pictures, Khoo put Singapore cinema on the global map with 28 features including 12 Storeys (1997), the first Singapore film to be invited to the Cannes Film Festival. Zhao Wei Films also produced the early features of home-grown film-makers Royston Tan, Boo Junfeng, Jack Neo and Brian Gothong Tan.