INTERESTING PRODUCTION FACTS

• One of the first movies to be entirely created with a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) workflow in 2013.
• Singapore’s largest film partnership. Involved international companies like Nvidia, Sony, researchers from Nanyang Technological University’s MulitPlatform Game Innovation Center, and more during its R&D stage from 2013-2015.
• First movie project to be awarded Australia’s Screen Queenland’s broader footprint Post, Digital and Visual Effects (PDV) Offset grant in 2020.
• Created continuously across 12 years. Filmed with the same actors over 10 years. Officially finished on 4th June 2025 with the completion of the Dolby Atmos sound mix.
• The Japan dub version was known as the ‘Anime All-Stars Edition’, bringing together some of the biggest Japanese voice actors in the same movie for the first time — a cast that came together out of their passion and belief in the story.
• Unprecedented for a foreign film, HEAVENS: The Boy and His Robot achieved what even most domestic titles rarely do in Japan — it was released in cinemas twice.
• The first movie of this genre and scale from Singapore.
• Achieved the following historic “Firsts” for a movie from Singapore:
  • • Fantasporto Film Festival 2025 (Portugal), 45^th edition – First Singapore film ever selected in their 45 year history and nominated for Best International Feature Film.
    • Fantasia International Film Festival 2024 (Canada), 28^th edition – First Singapore feature film in their 28 year history to be officially selected and nominated for Best First International Feature Film.
    • Les Utopiales de Nantes 2024 (France), 24^th edition – First Singapore film in their 24 year history to be nominated for Best International Feature Film.
    • Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN), 29^th edition – First Singapore film in their 29 year history to be nominated for Best Family Film.
    • Japan– First movie from Singapore to be given a wide release in Japan.