Tan Ce Ding is a Malaysia-based filmmaker who works as a Director and Writer. He is an alumnus of the Asian Film Academy (AFA) where he won the Motion Picture Association (MPA) President's Special Recognition Award. In 2016, his short film 'Hawa' won the Grand Prize in the BMW Shorties, the most prestigious and longest running short film festival in Malaysia. His following short film, "The Masseuse" (2018) is successfully acquired by Hollywood powerhouse Miramax Studio, to be developed into a feature film. In 2022, he directed, wrote and edited his latest short film "Please Hold the Line" (2022), which made its World Premiere in the 79th Venice Film Festival.