FDW EP12 Talking with Yuni Hadi

Film Directors Workshop

Yuni Hadi is a film curator and producer specializing in the management of film and media projects. She has spent a large part of her career promoting Singapore and Southeast Asian cinema.

Hadi headed the Singapore International Film Festival in 2009, and 2014-2019 as its Executive Director covering its 25th to 30th edition. In 2017, she co-curated a cross-disciplinary exhibition In the Garden with artist Adeline Kueh, which saw 6 artists respond to physical spaces within the home and its perimeters. In 2013, Hadi published and edited the book Behind the Camera and co-produced the film Ilo Ilo, the first Singapore film to win the Camera d’Or Award at the 66th Cannes Film Festival and Best Feature Film at 50th Golden Horse Awards.

Hadi was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship and the United Technologies Corporation Fellowship in 2016. In 2015, Hadi received the Honorary Award from the Singapore Short Film Awards in recognition for her contribution to the film industry. She was named one of Female Magazine’s “50 Most Inspiring Women” in 2010 and recognised as one of the Great Women of Our Time by Women's Weekly in 2014.

She was formerly Co-director at Objectifs Centre for Photography & Filmmaking and Programme Manager at The Substation Centre for the Arts, where she currently serves on the boards of.