Momo Boards ‘Andragogy,’ ‘A Helpful Ghost,’ ‘Dreaming & Dying’

Singapore’s Momo Movie Co has boarded a raft of initiatives, it was revealed on the opening day of the Busan Asian Contents & Movie Market on Saturday.

Momo, through which Blue Ant Media’s Seashore Home Footage has a majority stake, was based in 2018 by writer-director Kris Ong (“Sunday”) and Tan Si En, who’s a co-producer on Busan and Locarno title “Arnold is a Mannequin Pupil.”

Tan has boarded “Andragogy” by Wregas Bhanuteja (Cannes winner “Prenjak,” Busan 2021 title “Photocopier”) as a co-producer. The movie will observe Prani, a middle-aged schoolteacher, whose offended video goes viral and she or he will get trolled on-line. Adi Ekatama is producing for Indonesia’s Rekata Studio (“Photocopier”).

“Our partnership with Wregas and Rekata Studio emphasise Momo’s dedication to work with like-minded Southeast Asian skills and push boundaries by compelling and edgy tales. That is the primary of many upcoming initiatives and we look ahead to sharing it with viewers around the globe,” stated Tan.

Singapore outfit Hwallywood Media and Arts (“Land of Mercy”) has additionally joined “Andragogy” as government producer.

“In Rekata’s second function movie, we’re desirous to develop the probabilities by collaborating with different corporations, like Momo and Hwallywood. We consider ‘Andragogy’ has a soul that may attain international audiences. The narrative explores cancel tradition which has change into such a widespread phenomenon, significantly in gentle of the large function that social media performs in on a regular basis life,” stated Ekatama.

Principal images is scheduled in Indonesia over the last quarter of 2022.

Tan additionally boarded Thailand’s “A Helpful Ghost,” which gained the Locarno Open Doorways prime prize, as co-producer. It follows March and Nat, a fortunately married couple, and their seven-year-old son Dot. Nat dies of respiratory illness brought on by air air pollution. A saddened March is frightened that the identical destiny will befall his son, who regularly develops related signs. Nat then returns as a ghost haunting the home vacuum cleaner to attempt to suck up the mud hurting her son.

The movie is produced by Cattleya Paosrijaroen and Soros Sukhum for Bangkok-based 185 Movies Co.

In the meantime, Nelson Yeo’s debut function “Dreaming & Dying,” about three center aged people who’re pressured to confront their internal demons as an extended buried love triangle between them resurfaces, is in manufacturing. The movie participated within the Philippines Full Circle Lab in 2021. Tan is producing alongside with Sophia Sim for Momo Movie Co.

Elsewhere, “Don’t Cry, Butterfly” by Duong Dieu Linh (“Candy, Salty”) and produced by Tan for Momo and Tran Tri Bich Ngoc for An Nam Productions (“The Third Spouse”) has been boarded by U.Okay. funding fund Adeline Arts and Science. The Hanoi-set movie 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.

Duong stated: “I grew up obsessive about all varieties of concern shared by all the ladies earlier than me: infidelity, infertility, and the shortcoming to manage all points of life. Solely till I realised how ridiculous, pathetic and depressing we’ve made our lives and different girls’s lives change into, I began making movies that query the last word supply of girls’s struggling.”

The undertaking has been at Open Doorways, Full Circle, HAF amongst many different labs and markets.

Des Tan, director of Adeline Arts and Science stated: “Our fund’s mission is to have interaction with the very best Southeast Asian expertise. We’ve labored with Momo for the higher a part of a decade and at all times been impressed by the stellar slate they’ve and are thrilled to be persevering with with this collaboration with ‘Don’t Cry, Butterfly.’ ”

Tran and Tan added, “Linh is a particularly gifted filmmaker, and the story she is telling by her debut movie with recurring themes of womanhood, poisonous familial relations and custom plagued society is a crucial and pressing one. We’re excited to be joined by companions who establish with the identical imaginative and prescient.”

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