[3][4] He made a short film, Moveable Feast, in 1996 with Sandi Tan and Jasmine Ng Kin Kia.
[5] His first feature, co-directed with Jasmine Ng Kin Kia,[6] is "a motorcycle kung-fu love story", titled Eating Air, which was received respectably.
In 2007, he directed the horror-comedy Men in White, about four ghosts struggling to survive in Singapore, and which examined the Singaporean obsession with superstitions.
He also plans to direct a film called Bed, a comedy drama set in 1960s Singapore when the city-state's education system switched from Chinese language to English.
"[4] In June 2010, Tong was part of a group of Singapore filmmakers to protest the Asian Film Archive's head Tan Bee Thiam's supposed conflict of interest.