Teng Ky-Gan

Playwright and Screenwriter

Member Since:
October 2014

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About Teng

Teng Ky-Gan has 5 musicals (with 2 reruns), 5 plays and 2 short films produced. He won the ISA's Table Read My Screenplay Genre (historical/biopic) Competition 2021, placed Semifinalist in Emerging Screenwriters; Quarterfinalist in the Nicholl Fellowships, Scriptapalooza Screenplay and CineStory Feature Fellowship; Finalist in New Works Series New York and the ISA Virtual Pitch.

He is currently working on stories relating to technology (cryptocurrency, NFTs, blockchain, the metaverse etc) and has a special love for biopics.

Manager: Tammy Hunt and Jamie Bradley (Sandstone Artists)

Unique traits: Writing Asian stories in English.

Gender:
Male

Ethnicity:
Asian

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Jho Low Budget: $100K - $1M | Drama ⋄ Biography Upon accidentally gaining access to a sovereign fund containing billions of dollars, an awkward social-climber has to siphon as much money as he can, using brilliant and complicated financial structures, before the authorities close in. Based on the story of real-life billionaire playboy Jho Low, the central character of the world's biggest financial scandal.
(ME)TAVERSE Budget: $5M - $10M | Sci-fi After being severed from her human creator, a dislodged Avatar must lead a desperate fight for survival, rallying her kind to fight the brutal purge by their human oppressors in the Metaverse.
The Fourteenth Budget: $5M - $10M | Biography After fleeing Tibet during an invasion from China, the Dalai Lama embarks on a one-man mission against the 2nd biggest superpower in the world, so he can bring his people home to an independent Tibet. Based on the life of Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama.
Swept Away Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama After their loved ones were swept away in a tsunami, a devastated young boy teams up with a single-mother dive instructor, so they both can begin the insurmountable task of scouring the ocean inch by inch to find the bodies of those they have lost.
Kim Jong-nam Budget: $100K - $1M | Thriller ⋄ Biography Believing they were acting in a reality show, two women discover the entire show has been staged and they have been used by North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un to assassinate his own brother. They now have to prove their innocence before they become scapegoats amidst a larger geopolitical conflict. Based on the astonishing real-life assassination of Kim Jong-nam.
The Sky Below Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy ⋄ Drama A unreliable husband swears to his wife that he will take the family to one last vacation before their divorce. But when she suddenly dies, he decides to fulfil her last wish by bringing her ashes in an urn in an unforgettable road trip.