{"id":38889,"date":"2026-03-24T14:53:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=38889"},"modified":"2026-03-24T14:53:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:53:36","slug":"singaporean-actor-richie-koh-receives-bright-star-award-at-film-festival-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=38889","title":{"rendered":"Singaporean actor Richie Koh receives Bright Star Award at film festival in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>In A Good Child, Koh portrays a drag queen navigating questions of identity while grappling with family expectations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Speaking during his acceptance speech, Koh expressed pride in bringing the film to American audiences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>\u201cI\u2019m very proud that this film has the opportunity to come to Chicago,\u201d he said. Referring to Ong, he added, \u201cwe are very proud to share this film with you guys. It\u2019s something that\u2019s close to our hearts. And we hope this film will impact [you] in a way that when you all leave the theatre later, [you] will think a little bit about your lives.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>The screening also marks the film\u2019s US premiere and the only Singapore title featured at this year\u2019s festival.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/entertainment\/actor-richie-koh-bright-star-award-chicago-film-festival-6012991\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In A Good Child, Koh portrays a drag queen navigating questions of identity while grappling with family expectations.\u00a0 Speaking during his acceptance speech, Koh expressed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--7BzTkxZm--\/c_crop,h_900,w_1600,x_0,y_38\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/03\/24\/img_3185.jpg?itok=i8RsW2rA","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3622,271,4839,12031,1901,1900,1549,9932,3675,1293,297],"class_list":["post-38889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-actor","tag-award","tag-bright","tag-chicago","tag-festival","tag-film","tag-koh","tag-receives","tag-richie","tag-singaporean","tag-star","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}