KawanKawan, Momo Associate on ‘Dreaming & Dying,’ ‘Do not Cry Butterfly’

Indonesia’s KawanKawan Media has partnered with Singapore’s Momo Movie Co on Nelson Yeo’s “Dreaming & Dying” and Duong Dieu Linh’s “Don’t Cry Butterfly,” it was revealed at this week’s Asian Contents & Movie Market, held on the sidelines of the Busan Worldwide Movie Competition.

“Dreaming & Dying,” about three center aged people who’re compelled to confront their interior demons as a long-buried love triangle between them resurfaces, is at present in manufacturing.

Yeo mentioned: “ ‘Dreaming & Dying’ is the buildup of my obsession with goals and recollections. Primarily, it’s about how we select to recollect issues in our personal methods, and as time passes, that fantasy turns into the fact.”

The Hanoi-set “Don’t Cry, Butterfly” follows housewife Tam who finds out that her husband is dishonest on her. As a substitute of confronting him, she voodoos her husband again into love. KawanKawan joins Momo and An Nam Productions, which lately secured coin from U.Ok. funding fund Adeline Arts and Science.

The challenge is finalizing a European co-producer. Principal images is scheduled in Vietnam for the second half of 2023.

KawanKawan’s Yulia Evina Bhara mentioned: “Very excited to collaborate on ‘Dreaming & Dying’ by Nelson Yeo and ‘Don’t Cry Butterfly’ by Duong Dieu Linh. Each administrators have a really robust imaginative and prescient and distinctive method and I can see it from brief movies that they’ve completed. I’m wanting ahead to supply these with Tan Si En, from Momo Movie Co.”

Tan Si En, MD and producer at Momo Movie Co, mentioned: ““I’ve lengthy admired Yulia. She is all the time championing folks, abilities, and tales from Southeast Asia. I’m thrilled to lastly work along with her on these two treasured initiatives.”

Duong Dieu Linh added: “I’m grateful to have KawanKawan who determine with the identical imaginative and prescient to come back on board and assist my first function.”

KawanKawan’s Venice winner “Autobiography” and Locarno winner “Stone Turtle” are Busan choices this yr and the corporate additionally has “Gaspar” on the Busan Asian Mission Market. The corporate has an in depth slate.