Director

Ler graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications from Oklahoma City University in 2003. He
has been working in the film line since his school days, directing several corporate videos and assistant
producing in a television drama. After his graduation he made his Television directorial debut with The
Making of The Maid, a behind-the-scenes featurette about Singaporean movie The Maid. Since then he has
been involved in a number of projects as production crew and videographer, culminating in his role as an
assistant director and casting director for Wee Li Lin’s feature film Gone Shopping. He is currently working as
a freelance director, and has handled an amalgam of projects ranging from corporate videos, commercials,
dramas, infotainments, to music videos and short films. Outside of work, Ler is an avid supporter of
homegrown music, and is one of the singers for the band Localbarboy. Formed in 2005, the band’s mission is
to promote awareness of indie music in Singapore. He is also the creative director for the album artwork,
photoshoot, and videos of local band nuance.

Work Experience
Specialization: Director / Videographer

S/N Role Type/Title Company

Current Director English Drama (For three Episodes) Ochre Pictures
“Perfect Deception”
(Channel 5)
1 Director Documentary Ochre Pictures
“Super Science”, Taiwan
(Channelnewsasia)
2 Director TV Interstitials (Pilot) Ochre Pictures
“Sports Swap”
(Disney Channel)
3 Director Teaser / Short Film Kismet films
“Market Talk”
(Marketing Magazine Advertising Agency of the
Year Award)
4 Director / Music Video & Album artwork birdmandog
Creative “nuance EP”
director
5 Director Documentary Ochre Pictures
“Beyond the Physical”
(Channel 5)
6 Director Infotainment Ochre Pictures
“My Perfect Child”
(Channel 5)
7 Director Documentary Upside Down
“Education Asia, Philippines” Concepts
(Channelnewsasia)
8 Director Infotainment (For Three Episodes) Upside Down
“The Creative Class” Concepts
(Channel 5)
9 Director 30 sec TVC, Kismet Films Pte Ltd
“Bowling” (For Bayer Healthcare Group, Nature’s
Way Glucosamine Plus)
10 Director (For Drama Oak 3 Pictures
Five Episodes) “SNAP” (Channel 8 Drama)
11 Producer / Event Coverage (For Japanese theatre performance birdmandog
Director / “TRUE”)
Videographer
12 Assistant Full-length Feature Film, Kismet Films Pte Ltd
Director / “GONE SHOPPING” the movie
Casting
Director
13 Director Corporate Video, Thunk Pte Ltd
Singapore Learning Festival, (Client: WDA)
“Service Bagus!”
14 Assistant 30 sec TVC, Kismet Films Pte Ltd
Producer / “Kao Magic Clean” (Client: Kao Magic
Casting Director Clean)
15 Videographer Behind-the-scenes, Kismet Films Pte Ltd
Sunsilk 30 sec TVC, (Client: Sunsilk)
“Chicago”
16 Director / 30-minute Television Program, Mediacorp Raintree
Producer / “Making of The Maid” Pictures
Writer / (For broadcast on Channelnewsasia and Channel U)
Cameraman
17 Assistant Channel i Television Drama Series, Verite Productions Pte
Producer / “Life” Ltd
Assistant
Casting
18 Director / Training Video, Popular-Rent-a-car Pte
Producer / “Whizzcar Training Video” Ltd
Writer
19 Producer/ Videos for various projects and clients, including: High-Lite Innovations
Videographer -CR Aquariums (Corporate Video) (Company is now
-Singapore Koi Exhibition (Event) defunct)
-Exxon Mobile (Event)
20 Videographer Workplan Video, Singapore Arm
3 Div Arty Workplan Video Forces,
3rd Division Artillery
Personal Projects
S/ Role Type/Title Awards
N
1 Director / Producer Short Film, (Work-in-progress – Audio
/ Videographer / “the unnamed feeling” Post-production)
Writer
2 Co-director Short Film, Winning entry for LaSalle
“The Next Five Minutes” Fly-by-night Video Challenge
3 Director / Short film, NA
Videographer / “Urban Decay”
Writer
4 Editor / Director Music Video NA
“Lost”

5 Director Music DVD for local band NA

“Nuance”

Contact Details
Name: Ler Jiyuan
Address: Blk 700A, Ang Mo Kio Avenue 6 #25-310, Singapore 561700
Mobile: 9661 1920
Email: yuanler@gmail.com

Education
S/ Type School
N
1 Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications Oklahoma City University,
Distinctions: Public Relations, Advance Journalism, with Management
Research Methodology, Art and Our World, Philosophy,
Psychology, World Politics, Environmental Science,
Development Institute
Television Production Singapore
Merit: Advertising, American Politics,
(March 2003)

2 GCE “A” Levels Serangoon Junior College

(March 2000)
3 GCE “O” Levels Deyi Secondary School
(June 1997)
4 PSLE Ai Tong Primary School
Certification
6 Digital Short Filmmaking Objectifs