Reena Deen is a Singaporean author and filmmaker who has C-PTSD (complex post-traumatic stress disorder) which is a mental health issue and dyslexia. Her books and films often revolve around complex characters living with disabilities. She often uses horror and dark fantasy elements in her stories and films to explore themes on abuse, mental health and ableism.
In 2023, her mini-docudramas won awards in the Pokka Film Festival and the IamInvisible Film Festival. She is also touted as making Singapore’s first disability-led indie psychological horror feature, The Damned Ones. It was featured in both local newspapers as well as overseas magazines like Rue Morgue which is Canada’s largest horror film magazine.
Amanda Yip is a passionate actress who lives with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative eye disease that causes vision loss. She is in the ArtDis’s artist-in-training program which trains disabled actors in various mediums. In 2025, she performed in Through The Looking Glass art installation as part of Light To Night Festival Singapore Art Week.
She was the lead performer for the opening night at the Chng Soik Art Exhibition at the Ion Art Gallery in 2024 and the co-emcee for 2024’s Purple Parade which had a 15,000 people turnout. She was also the co-lead actress in 2023’s feature film, The Damned Ones, which has been featured in the renowned leading film magazine Rue Morgue.
Shalom (Ern Rong) Lim is neurodivergent and has Stage 2 Chronic Kidney Disease and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). He also struggles with obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. However, his health challenges didn’tt stop him from winning the Goh Chok Tong Enable Award in 2023.
Ever passionate about the arts, he enrolled in Art:Dis's 2-year theatre training program for d/Deaf, neurodivergent, and disabled creatives. Thanks to his training, he performed a monologue titled "Connection" in "The Human Condition" (a disability-centred verbatim theatre showcase) at the Enabling Lives Festival 2024 and was featured on ART:DIS Singapore's YouTube channel Beyond Display. He was also featured in NLB's (National Library Board) Accessibility newsletter and marketing channels, in the 2023 MSFCares Network launch video, Enabling Masterplan 2030 booklet and in The Straits Times in 2020.
When he is not busy performing, he manages Rebirth Ensemble, Singapore’s first disability-led accessible arts studio, which he co-founded with his girlfriend, Amanda Yip.
Oleg Moskvin entered the world of visual storytelling through photography at the age of 10 He devoted countless hours in the darkroom under the mentorship of his first teacher, a seasoned TV photographer. As he grew older and became more skilled, he won several photography awards and held offline exhibitions.
Soon, he begain pursuing film where he now works to capture nature's visual enigma and the states of the soul in moving images instead of photos as he once did.
Web: moskvin.net
Moses spent his university years fixing Arduino boards and debugging code but a side film project with friends revealed his true passion: bringing ideas to life through visuals. Since then, he has honed his skills across both fast-paced start-ups and corporate giants, accumulating a wealth of experience in a variety of roles. He has donned the hats of a producer, director, editor, cameraman, production assistant and even actor for both commercial and passion projects.
Sheena studied in SOMA (Music for TV and film) in 2023 and in the Film Scoring Academy of Europe in 2024. It is her vision to collaborate with filmmakers to make emotive music and support the screens.
She also composed music for another one of Reena Deen's films, The Damned Ones, which is touted as Asia's 1st disability-led indie psychological horror feature.