Ben Slater Author

Hailing originally from England where he was born in 1974, Ben Slater is a writer and curator who has been based in Singapore since 2002. A former magazine editor and art-house cinema programmer in the UK, he has written about film for a number of publications in the UK, US and Singapore, including The Straits Times, BigO, Vertigo, Film Threat and Indiewire. He has also done time as a performance and digital artist, a film producer, a new media festival director, and currently teaches film and theatre at two of Singapore's universities (NUS and NTU). Ben moved to Singapore to be with his partner, whom he married in 2003. They live in the east of the island. Kinda' Hot is his first book.