HweilingOw
- Producer
- Director
- Actor
Hweiling Ow (pronounced Huwayling) hates watching horror films, but she loves to make them. The Malaysian-raised, Auckland-based talent first started to act in her twenties, and appeared in such Kiwi TV staples as Shortland Street and Mean Mums. She has been a producer and director on AFK — a web series set inside an online roleplaying game — and Ao-Terror-Oa, which is comprised of six bite-sized episodes, each offering a different gory story. She won the Woman to Watch Award at the 2020 Women in Film and Television Awards.
Screenography
2024 Writer, Executive Producer Film
Beyond the Veil
2022 Writer Series
Munkie
2021 First Assistant Director Short film
Sweet Tooth
2021 — 2024 As: Harley Series
2020 Director Television
Awards
2020 WIFT NZ Awards (Women in Film and Television)
Woman to Watch Award
“My brain is pretty wired up to come up with weird creepy gross stuff — so horror is a natural medium for me to lean towards.”
— Hweiling Ow on working in the horror genre, Popcorn Horror website, 22 November 2017