The Objectifs x Momo Film Co Short Film Incubator is an initiative that focuses on developing short film scripts. The programme is open to Southeast Asian filmmakers working with moving images, and will provide five selected participants with mentorship and a valuable support network as they work on their scripts.
Momo Film Co is the programme partner for the Objectifs x Momo Film Co Short Film Incubator.
Congratulations to the following five projects that have been selected for the programme!
Terjadilah Padaku Menurut Perkataanmu (Be Done Unto Me According To Thy Word)
After her ghost-summoning attempt to end her pregnancy fails, an unwed teen is sent to a convent by her Catholic family, where isolation, shame, and supernatural encounters lead her to a mystical reckoning.
Andrea Suwito is an independent filmmaker from Semarang, Indonesia. Her first documentary feature, A Distant Call (currently in post-production) is the awardee of Documentary Association of Europe Award during Cannes Docs 2023 and recipient of PROCIREP Commission Télévision development fund, DMZ Docs development fund, SGIFF SEA-Doc Production Fund, and supported by ZDF/Arte. In its editing stage, A Distant Call is one of the four projects selected for the Visions du Réel: Rough Cut Lab 2025.
Her short documentaries have previously been screened at Sheffield Doc/Fest, Doc Edge International Film Festival, Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival amongst others. Andrea was also part of the Buried Chapters movement, which publishes free and accessible short documentaries to uncover Indonesia’s erased (and often violent) history, particularly against suspected communists and ethnic minorities. Her film Hotline 1998 opened the movement and has garnered widespread attention regarding the racially-motivated mass sexual violence against Chinese-Indonesian women during the 1998 financial crisis that is still denied.
May The Gods Hear Us Eventually
A broken marriage leads a father and his young teenage daughter to a new home, where grief takes on an ugly form through the father’s desperation for a new normal.
Angel Shu is a filmmaker based in Singapore. Having graduated from LASALLE College of The Arts with a BA (Hons) Film degree, she hopes to continue creating stories that are both humane and personal, striving to bring a different outlook on humanity through cinema. Her most recent directorial work includes her undergraduate film where she directed and co-wrote the 2022 short film, The Scent of Eucalyptus Oil, which was nominated for the National Youth Film Awards Singapore in 2022 under the Student Category, and selected for the Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival in 2023.
The Anthology of Women: Vol. 2
By day, 66-year-old Bà Diệu is a perfect grandmother. By night, she’s a secret erotic dancer—until her hidden costume is discovered, unleashing chaos, lies, and a race to keep her dream alive.
Bui Nguyen Dieu An is a Vietnamese director and scriptwriter with nearly a decade of experience in the commercial industry. In 2024, her debut short film, kitty_kitty_katxxx, won the Panorama Best Generation Award at the Tirana International Film Festival in Tirana, Albania. Her work delves into the complexities of womanhood in modern society, exploring themes such as the generational gaps between women in a family, the evolving definition of what it means to be a woman, and the societal norms, expectations, and roles imposed on Asian women—alongside the struggles to challenge these constraints. An is currently working on her second short film, Anthology of Women: Vol.2, which serves as a continuation of the themes explored in her first film.
Finding Nate from NASA
Linda, a 25-year-old Thai-American, embarks on a documentary quest to find her half-brother at NASA after her Vietnam War veteran father’s death.
Felicia Luna King is a Thai-American filmmaker with a bachelor’s degree in Film and Photography from Thammasat University. She explores filmmaking processes that intertwine space, time, and history. Her film Mycelium Memory had its international premiere at the 35th Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) and received a nomination for Best Performance for lead actress Thirada Insombat. Her upcoming short film, Finding Nate from NASA, was selected to receive a production grant from the Purin Pictures Short Film Camp 2024.
There Were Once Elephants Here
50 years after the arrival of a dreaming eldritch god above the pacific, a young girl must embark on a perilous journey through a war torn Philippines, in order to find a cure for the mysterious illness that has transformed her sister into a goat.
Stephen Lopez graduated from the University of Santo Tomas in 2012 with a BS in Nursing before deciding to take up a career in film-making instead. He is an alumnus of the NAFF Fantastic Film School 2023 and has lived and worked in Manila as a freelance production sound-recordist, sound-designer and sometimes writer for various films and commercials. He also serves as a part time instructor for the film and media program of both the Ateneo De Manila University and CIIT College of Arts and Technology, where he teaches story development and editing. Currently, he has delved into directing his own projects with his latest short HITO being selected to compete in various international film festivals such as the Berlinale, Fantasia, Sitges and many more.
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