Adrian Teh is one of the renowned director and producer in Malaysia. He founded and presided over the Chinese Film Association of Malaysia in 2012, and organized Malaysia’s first ever Chinese movies awards ceremony – the Golden Wau Awards – in 2013. He is highly recognized as one of the Top-10 Outstanding Youths of Malaysia in 2016, (JCI TOYM) and was named in the 2016 list of 100 Most Influential Young Entrepreneurs (MIYE 2016).[1]
Adrian has directed numerous Malaysian Chinese movies, including “Lelio Popo” , “The Wedding Diary”, “The Wedding Diary 2”, “King of Mahjong” & etc. In 2018, he directed Malaysia’s first military action-packed movie that is based on true events - “PASKAL: The Movie”. PASKAL recorded RM30.08 million in box office sales across Malaysia and Singapore.[2]
Since then, Adrian started to explore further in Malay film industry. In 2019, he directed an action-packed movie – “WIRA”. In order to make it a world class action film, he’s managed to hire renowned Indonesian action star Yayan Ruhian, who had involved in few Hollywood movies to choreograph the action sequences in the film.[3][4]
In 2020, he attends to many new challenges. He directed his first Malay rom-com - “Pasal Kau!” (All Because Of You) – the first Netflix Malaysian original film which is available in over 190 countries.[5] Besides, he directed his first suspense-thriller series – “Model Family”, the first original production by Celestial Tiger Entertainment / Thrill.
He got the recognition by Tatler Asia as '2021 Asia Most Influential MY'.[6]
He directed and produced the most expensive film in Malaysia, MALBATT: Misi Bakara that release on cinema starts 24th August 2023.[7][8]
