Tzang Merwyn Tong

Zen-Mind Filmmaking

Tzang Merwyn Tong is an award-winning independent filmmaker, arts-educator and researcher whose research interests include pedagogies in storytelling, filmmaking and around Eastern Philosophy. He received an MA in Arts Pedagogy and Practice from Goldsmiths University, and is a recipient of the LASALLE Scholarship. He is currently a Lecturer at Republic Polytechnic, teaching Visual Storytelling and Film Appreciation. Tzang’s films that have travelled to festival acclaim in Rotterdam, Berlin, Montreal and Tel Aviv. He is the founder of the Zen-Mind Filmmaking Movement – a pedagogical approach to make the filmmaking practice mindful and in-the-present using Zen Philosophy.