EXCLUSIVE: Manufacturing has wrapped in Singapore and the USA on Charlotte Hong’s debut function Tropical Rain, Loss of life Scented Kiss.
The animation and live-action hybrid movie is ready in an apocalyptic imaginative and prescient of Singapore falling right into a wilderness populated by spirits. A dime retailer romance blossoms as an alienated lesbian teenager struggles to admit her emotions for her mysteriously-resurrected finest buddy.
Starring Shi An Lim, the movie is produced by Singapore’s Momo Movie Co, the Philippines Daluyong Studio and the U.S.’s Complete Blur in affiliation with True Color Media and Purple Tree Content material.
At an earlier stage in undertaking, Tropical Rain, Loss of life Scented Kiss received a particular point out on the Singapore Worldwide Movie Competition’s Southeast Asian Movie Lab and Skills Tokyo. Manufacturing was supported by the Singapore Movie Fee, and Skills Tokyo Subsequent Masters Help Program.
Atfter profitable the Golden Leopard within the first and second movies part for Dreaming and Dying on the Locarno Movie Competition final 12 months, producers Sophia Sim and Tan Si En lead Tropical Rain, Loss of life Scented Kiss together with Giuliana Foulkes.
“We’re keen about championing feminine and non-binary voices each earlier than and behind the digicam,” producers Sim and Tan mentioned in an announcement. “We’re excited for a novel and numerous undertaking like Tropical Rain, Loss of life-scented Kiss. It has been unbelievable to work with such nice skills from each Singapore and the U.S.”
The movie is presently going into post-production and shall be edited by Natalie Soh, a Berlinale Skills alumnus who received a Greatest Enhancing prize on the 2017 Asian Movie Awards for the function movie Apprentice and Greatest Enhancing on the 2017 Apollo Awards for the darkish fantasy collection Halfworlds 2.