About Me

Currently pursuing a Masters in Fine Arts in Fiction Writing at Columbia University in New York and Managing Editor for the Columbia Journal, Shelby Kho is an Indonesian filmmaker and writer who enjoys personifying feelings and investigating intuition; She has written and directed short films — Original Wound premiered at Cannes’ Critics’ Week’s Next Step Studio (2026), OCEAN premiered at Singapore International Film Festival (2023), and I Took A Nap and I Miss You at Minikino (2022), establishing interest in intergenerational trauma that’ll continue to be explored in her upcoming projects, namely her in-development debut feature film TERBAKAR that received the Most Promising Project Award at SGIFF’s Southeast Asian Film Lab 2023 and continued development at Red Sea Film Festival, and her upcoming fiction novel.

Say hi at shelby.kho@gmail.com