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Pearry Reginald Teo More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

23 July 1978, Singapore

Birth Name

Pearry Reginald Teo Zhang Pingli

Height

5' 9" (1.75 m)

Mini Biography

Pearry Reginald Teo was born in July 23rd 1978. He started making films at the later stage than most filmmakers, when he was 22 years old. His first short film Liberata Me (2002) was screened at Cannes, won Best Horror at the New York International Film Festival and an Award of Excellence from The Communicator's award, garnishing critical acclaim from celebrities such as Ray Manzarek, keyboadist of The Doors. Shortly after the completion of the festival circuit for Liberata Me, Pearry Teo enrolled in Pima Community College studying basic video production and cinematography but was soon dropped out after failing all his classes during the making of his second short film Children of the Arcana. Children of the Arcana took home (for the second year) the 2003 award for Best Horror at the New York International Film Festival.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Soong Chin Meh

Trade Mark

Invents lifestyles without the convenience of technology in his movies

Trivia

One of the youngest Hollywood directors.

The youngest Asian American director in Hollywood.

Made history in his hometown, Singapore, as being the first Singaporean to direct a Hollywood movie

Personal Quotes

what bugs me about directors is their inherent ability to be the opposite of who they really are. When directors try to be weird (when they are not) or vice versa, they lose the beauty in the person they really are. That's why most films are just an ugly metaphor of the directors who deny the true beauty in their original talent

Where Are They Now

(April 2003) In development for first feature (revelations trilogy) with producer Kearie Peak, executive producer of American History X