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25 October 2023

Sisters of the Night promo photo
15 May 2023
When Ochre Pictures’ "Last Madame: Sisters of the Night" premieres in Singapore on 13 July this year, creator and executive producer Jean Yeo strikes another victory for period drama...
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Jean Yeo
15 September 2021
Jean Yeo is the creative force behind the TV series Last Madame which is currently streaming on Netflix. She shares more about her craft and building a business around it.
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8 September 2021
In recent years, local female production coordinators (showrunners) have subverted the male-dominated TV industry, and their performance is not inferior to that of their male counterparts...
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Echoes of Time show still
27 October 2016
Local drama Echoes Of Time has scored an International Emmy nod with a Best Performance By An Actor nomination for its leading man, Taiwanese actor James Wen...
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23 May 2023

It’s the 1990s and Jean Yeo is, in her own words, a “young and overzealous” assistant director working on Triple Nine, the classic cop drama led by James Lye, Wong Li-Lin and Lim Yu-Beng...

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With a special knack for making award-winning local historical dramas while also collaborating with regional powerhouses, Singaporean production outfit Ochre Pictures continues to punch far above its weight...

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Little Women Singapore filming behind the scenes
12 December 2022
What’s it like being the Singapore producer for a Korean drama series? Jean Yeo, CEO and Creative Director of Ochre Pictures, recounts her experience working on Netflix's Little Women...
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8 December 2022
Given South Korea’s booming content industry, there is no shortage of eager collaborators from Asia and beyond. One regional partner that has seen a standout year in production tie-ups is Singapore...
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Jean Yeo CNBC
13 December 2021
Jean Yeo is the creative director and founder of Ochre Pictures, one of Singapore’s top independent production companies. She shares her career-defining moments in CNBC Make It’s “My Biggest Lessons.”
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Lion Mums cast Singapore
25 August 2015
Nothing lends legitimacy to a phenomenon like being satirised. And that is what will happen when MediaCorp TV Channel 5’s latest drama Lion Moms premieres. Singapore’s kancheong, kiasu mums will be held up to the light, as Lion Moms is meant to be a fun yet poignant look at Singaporean tiger mums — dubbed “lion” mums because, well, we live in the Lion City...
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Little Women Singapore filming behind the scenes
5 October 2022
... And to unfold the climax of the story, the series' production company, Studio Dragon, joined hands with a Singaporean production company, Ochre Pictures, to create the delicately riveting, visually stunning scenes in the city state...
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Third Rail filming behind the scenes
4 October 2022
The train is real, okay — the English-language series is filmed in one of the biggest sets ever built in Singapore...
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Last Madame show still Joanne Peh
26 October 2020
Last Madame, which stars local actress Joanne Peh as a brothel owner, has been named Best Asian Drama jointly with Korean drama When The Camellia Blooms at a competition held under the Busan International Film Festival...
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27 October 2020
A production of 130,000 yuan for an episode of 3.5 million yuan, the local English drama "Last Madame" ("The Last Lady") starring Bai Weixiu beat high-cost Asian dramas and won the best Asian drama at the "Asian Content Awards" at the Busan Film Festival set prizes...
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