June Tan

June Tan is a producer, scriptwriter and member of the arts collective Five Arts Centre, based in KL. She studied Biology at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine and worked in the corporate world while stage-managing, tour-managing and producing numerous performing arts projects, including Fragments of Tuah which premiered in KL and just returned from Kyoto Experiment in Japan. From 2018-2020 June was Director for TPAM in Yokohama, an arts platform in Japan reflecting contemporary thinking in Asia. She is active in ReformARTsi, a grassroots coalition seeking arts policy change and also in environmental activism with Gabungan Darurat Iklim Malaysia.

June has also been writing scripts for film and TV for over 10 years and uses her diverse background to help create the varied characters in her scripts. Since 2018 she has led as Head Writer for numerous Writers’ Room. She has written for local and all the major Southeast Asian platforms including Netflix Asia, iflix (now WeTV), Viu Malaysia, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, Astro, RTM and Mediacorp in Singapore. In 2022, she won Best Screenplay for Spilt Gravy on Rice (2015) at Pesta Filem Malaysia.

Recently in 2023, she began producing films based on the scripts she wrote, including Budak Flat (2023), Housekeeping (2024) and Mikael (2026).

Making an impact means finding out what needs to be done, and doing it, to ensure people and collective causes can achieve more with their goals and inclinations.