Our Journey

HEAVENS: THE BOY AND HIS ROBOT began as short-film story. And the story was used to test two bigger ideas. First, the application of new technology that could potentially revolutionalize film-making. Second, a business idea of a franchise entertainment experience that could leverage on shared production and advertising resources.

Casting and production for the research and development (R&D) phase took place in Singapore.

SONY, NVIDIA, Nanyang Technological University’s MAGIC Center, OTOY’s OctaneRender, Muse Pte Ltd, Act-3D B.V., iPi Soft LLC, Japan’s Research Institute of Systems Planning, Inc. ("ISP"), and Side Effects Software Asia Pacific came on board to contribute their technical expertise and equipment.

Artists from all over the world, with experience from companies such as Industrial Light & Magic, and Gameloft etc., and who had worked on films like “Pacific Rim”, “Star Trek into Darkness” and “The Dark Knight Rises game”, also came on board to contribute their talents to the creation of this truly international film production.

With the successful conclusion of the R&D phase HEAVENS: THE BOY AND HIS ROBOT was green-lit to be made into a full-length feature film to be launched for commercial viewing.

Production for the movie took us to New Zealand where we met new cast and crew. Upon returning to Singapore, new locations were scouted, and film sets were built. For as much as possible, we like to film our fantasy sci-fi worlds in nature’s beautiful real life environments.

“HEAVENS” logo and “THE BOY AND HIS ROBOT” movie title were successfully registered as trademarks. We made it legit. More seriously, we were accumulating more and more IP, and needed to safeguard all our hard work.

We received support from the Federal Government of Australia (Screen Australia) and State Governments (Screen Queensland and South Australian Film Commission).

RESIN VFX and THE POST LOUNGE partnered us in bringing HEAVENS:THE BOY AND HIS ROBOT visually to life. BOOM TRACKS created the entire soundscape and enhanced the action and excitement with Dolby Atmos Cinema Sound.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, our work shifted online, including final post-production and online test screenings with audiences in Japan and New Zealand.

Heavens Entertainment has entered Japan with an assembled "Dream Team" of Japanese professionals to guide the market entry!

We enter production with one of Japan's most established production studios, TOHOKUSHINSHA FILM CORPORATION("Spirited Away", "Lost in Translation"), to create the Japanese voice production of the film. It begins in an excitingly big way.
Natsuki Hanae("Tanjiro" of "Demonslayer"), and
Ono Kensho("Spy X Family", "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure", "Harry Potter") will lead an ensemble of "Anime All-stars" in the Japanese Dub of the movie. More news to come.

What a dream come true to release the movie 1st in the land that pioneered the "mecha" genre.
Even though the movie is still a work-in-progress, the Japanese dubbed version features the biggest anime voice cast ever assembled,
from Natsuki Hanae (Demonslayer), Kensho Ono (Gundam Hathaway), Ai Fairouz (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) to legends like Kenjiro Tsuda, and Toshiyuki Morikawa.
With the voice dub produced by Tohokushinsha Film Corporation (Spirited Away).
Japanese theme song, "Sora", composed by Grammy Award winner, Masa Takumi, and performed by popular girl group, Chō Tokimeki Sendenbu.
In Japan, it will be known as
"メカバース：少年とロボット
[Mechaverse: Shōnen to Robotto]"

Our first Comic-con outing in Tokyo, with a movie booth and a full stage show together with
girl group, Chō Tokimeki Sendenbu to introduce the movie. The our cardboard Little Dragon was a hit with children and adult attendees alike.

The international version of the movie(work-in-progress) premieres as Official Selection in the prestigious Fantasia International Film Festival. Rich is also the first Singaporean nominated for Best First Feature Film (New Flesh Award).We are grateful to be given the largest cinema, with crowds lining the streets an hour before doors open, and had a roaring, stomping, shouting, surreal good time in Montréal!

The international version of the movie(work-in-progress) continues to gratefully get invitations and nominations at film festivals in various parts of the world, achieving various historic firsts for a movie from Singapore. One of the best things about it, is seeing families gather together to enjoy it.

Beyond our dreams, the Japanese dubbed version got an unprecedented 2nd cinema wide release across Japan exclusively with Japan's largest cinema group, Aeon Cinemas. This was coined the "Miracle release" in Japan.

A Kyoto-based model kit company, TeamStrike!, discovered our movie in the strangest way possible in 2023. They reached out to us to license our characters for production. With the first batch of release in February 2025, another dream of ours, to see "Little Dragon", as a symbol of "Never Giving Up" in people's homes, took another step towards reality.

Covid-19 prevented us from being in Australia to complete the final sound mix of the movie. For years it has been a work-in-progress. On 4h June 2025, along with final visual effects, the Dolby Atmos sound mix is officially certified by Dolby Laboratories, Inc. The movie is finally complete.

We’re grateful to be part of the very first slate of films represented worldwide by Prestige International Pictures, a newly formed Hollywood based international film sales company. They will represent our movie to film distributors worldwide.

We are honored to have the completed version of the movie have its red carpet premiere at the prestigious Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN), Korea, and being the first movie from Singapore to be nominated for the Best Family Film Award (Odd Family Award).

And we are on our way to you soon! Entering new territories. Stay tuned for more about our miraculous journey.