Award winning filmmaker Siok Siok Tan talks to us about the inspiration behind Boomtown Beijing , her latest documentary on the Beijing Olympics.

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About Siok Siok Tan

Siok Siok Tan is a filmmaker with a deep passion for China documentaries. Born and raised in Singapore, she has built a career as an executive producer of international documentaries, focusing on the greater China region.

As supervising producer for Discovery Networks Asia, she worked with directors from China, Singapore, Australia and the UK to produce high quality documentary and lifestyle programming. Her executive producer credits include Discovery Channel's China First Time Film Makers initiative, Portraits Taiwan, a biography series of prominent Taiwanese as well as travel and lifestyle shows for Discovery Travel and Living.

These shows have clinched more than a dozen awards and nominations at the Asian TV awards and the Golden Bell Awards, Taiwan’s equivalent of the Emmy Awards. An educator at heart, Siok has also been a visiting lecturer at the Beijing Film Academy, one of Asia's preeminent film schools. As part of her lecturing stint, she directed a documentary about the Beijing Olympics with the assistance of her film academy students.

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