After decades of watching aliens wreck havoc in America, “The Alien Invasion” brings the absurd "B-grade" galactic battle to the comical side of Singapore.

After seven thousand earth years, they have returned to harvest their newly grown planet of slaves. Discover how a glitch in alien technology allowed a small university, in a small country, to help save the world.

Featuring Singapore’s modern culture of diverse races and mixed languages, local occupational stereotypes, and the country’s oldest university building, the adventure is told by over 80 cast members of real life university students, staff, and professors.

Filmed by a 7 member crew, this incredible film rolls out each scene with an over-the-top intense mixture of action, comedy, satire,
and the ever present desire to be heroes – even if only for a day.

“One of my lifelong reoccurring dreams was to see the educational institute that I was attending being blown up.

From my childhood days, I would paint stories of great adventures with my classmates; how the aliens would come to our school, how we would discover some hidden alien technology on the school grounds, how we would be able to turn their cool weapons back at the galactic monsters, and how we would save our school building and friends (saving the teachers was a debatable issue then).
It was our grandest dream to be heroes for a day (and skip class while we’re at it).
When my university requested for a proposal for “something different” to play at their first ever graduation ceremony, I jumped on this final chance.

I wanted the film to not take itself too seriously (like some Hollywood-blockbusters had), but rather tell a story and shoot the film with a sense of fun and adventure.
The look of the film had to depart from the slick, timed camera moves and fluid action pieces. Thus a handheld camera style, along with shooting the film in digital as compared to 35mm, will allow it to have a raw, and at times an "amateurish-B-grade movie" look. This would prove to be a challenge in post-production as all the visual effects had to be camera-matched with the real life hand-held camera. To complement the madcap experience, we opted to ignore whatever misunderstanding a "serious-give-me-only-intense-alien-movies" audience might have, and go all out for exaggerated "bad", "cheap-looking" visual effects, with a stylized look instead of realistic ones as shown in Picture B below:

Picture A: Realistic Action Effects	Picture B: Exaggerated Game Cinematics Effects

With the story in place, followed by the finalized concept, we submitted the poignant combination of absurd heroic battles and mass destruction set to a Singaporean flavor of humor, and presented the risky concept to the board.

“It, ah, urm, ahem, it certainly is different.” The graduation ceremony director said as he compared my concept to the string of other corporate-video concepts that were presented to the committee earlier. I waited for him to kick me out of the presentation room.

“What are you going to call it?” He asked.

“The Alien Invasion?” I hazarded. I supposed I could have called it, “The Return of the Flying Saucers” but I didn’t think of it then, and I suspect that it has already been taken by some unknown B-grade film. “It’s a working title.” I tried to rectify and resumed waiting to be kicked out.

“I need to know what to put in the program sheet.” He said.

“I’ll let you know once I got it.” I promised.

I never gotten round to thinking of a better title. The film itself presented enough challenges from the writing to the execution. Working with a cast of over 80 non-actors who are real life students, staff and professors of Singapore Management University was an interesting experience (They found it easier to execute stunts and comedy than actual acting.)
The volunteer crew also struggled with many firsts from driving with the back of the van open to procuring weird green plastic for a green screen.
On the day the movie was released, I listened to the audience cheer, shout, and laugh along with the action and realize that even if only for this day, it was all worth the while.
I hope you would enjoy the film as well, if not, punch the person beside you. If you do, kiss the person beside you. Either way, some violence is bound to ensue and I will be safely 2 continents away.”

- Rich

	FULL CAST AND PRODUCTION CREDITS
	Role	Name
	Film Production Company	Richmanclub Studios Pte Ltd
	Directed, Written, and Edited by	Rich Ho
	Direction of Photography by	Rich Ho
	Screenplay by	Rich Ho
		Katharine Chong
	Special and Visual effects,and Sound by	Rich Ho
	Original Music Composed and Performed by	Rich Ho
	Production Managers	Katharine Chong
		Jensen Boey
		Rich Ho
	Production Assistant	Chong Kwong Sheng
	Props and Costumes by	Katharine Chong
		Ong Shilin
		Law Wing Yan, Yongen
	Sound Recording by	Roger Pho
	External Coordinators	Lim Nah
		Vinson Chua
	Starring
	Office worker 1	Daniel Quek
	Office worker 2	Jocelyn Lim
	Office worker 3	Koh Kok Wee
	Office worker 4	Ng Beng Yew
	Office worker 5	Adele Teo
	Gym guy	Wilson Yew
	Billboard poster girl	Margaret Chan
	War photographer	Dion Chow
	ET cyclist	Rich Ho
	Security guard 1	Sandro Sugijapranata
	Chicken pie victim	Soh Jit Seng
	Ah-Lian (Local girl street gang member)	Fenny
	Copyright infringer	Michael Goh
	Photocopy Aunty	Mrs Quek
	Newscaster	Chan Liru
	Exercise Uncle	Phang Tiong Chuan
	Exercise Aunty 1	Chua Ming Chian
	Exercise Aunty 2	Karen Koh
	Exercise Aunty 3	Koh Ming-Ming
	Chicken rice hawker 1	Byron Chan
	Chicken rice hawker 2	Lim Kong Wee
	Chicken rice hawker 3	Quek Joo Seng
	Security guard 2	Shafarizal Bin Sarpin
	Security guard 3	Jensen Boey
	Real security guard	Ricky Wu
	SMU emergency task force leader	Low A.M.
	SMU emergency task force member 1	Tan Teck Kiang
	SMU emergency task force member 2	Darren Hanson
	SMU emergency task force member 3	Lim Nah
	SMU emergency task force member 4	Vinson Chua
	SMU emergency task force member 5	Dharma
	Photo-taking student 1	Elaine Yee
	Photo-taking student 2	Dharma
	Photo-taking student 3	Roger Pho
	Photo-taking dog	Pugi (Owner: Vinson Chua)
	Press member 1	Alex Wan
	Press member 2	Ho Shyn Yee
	Press member 3	Frodine Lee
	Press member 4	Adeline C. Tan Hui Lin
	Press member 5	Tay Jein Yi
	Press member 6	Hermione Tay
	Press member 7	Jensen Boey
	Recall manager	Jason Chiam
	Recall staff 1	Chong Lai Ling
	Recall staff 2	Stephanie Vanessa Co
	Recall staff 3	Lee Hui Boon
	Recall staff 4	Teo Pei Han
	Recall staff 5	Katharine Chong
	Student picture 1	Annie Li
	Student picture 2	Elfarina Binte Mohammed Zaid
	Student picture 3	Farhann Ali
	Student picture 4	Lim Chun Lian
	Student picture 5	Victor Ong
	Bookworm	Evelyn Lim
	Homemaking career woman	Katharine Chong
	Garang guni man (rag-and-bone-man)	Edwin Tay
	Uncalled student	Primalani Mahesh Chandru
	SMUX team leader	Shawn Tee
	SMUX team member 1	Lee Shuzhen
	SMUX team member 2	Huang Weijie
	SMUX team member 3	Dion Tan
	SMUX team member 4	Phang Tiong Chuan
	Toilet cleaner	Chong Kwong Sheng
	Flushed student 1	Efren Chia
	Flushed student 2	Kirpal Singh
	Flushed student 3	Roger Pho
	Commander	Nadir Ali Zafar
	Assistant commander	Sherlyn Foo
	Tracker 1	David Chia
	Tracker 2	Lee Voon Keong
	Techie	Dominic Wee
	Strategist	Kevin Tan
	Cup noodle girl	Law Wing Yan, Yongen
	Warroom personnel 1	Dawn Victoria Wee
	Warroom personnel 2	Hamilton Phang
	Warroom personnel 3	Serene Tan
	Cable layer 1	Edwin Tay
	Cable layer 2	Jensen Boey
	Tennis player	David Matthews
	Aikido master	Aaron Ong
	Scout	Tan Chee Wee
	Guitarist	Angela Chen
	Bowler	Clarence Chia Kok Hong
	Archer 1	Lim Kong Wee
	Archer 2	Robin Pho
	Water girl	Wee Lin
	Car squad leader	Adrian Tan
	Car squad member 1	Lynnette Teo
	Car squad member 2	Jacqueline Zhuang
	Enthusiastic cheering staff member	Claire Ng
	Taxi driver	Rich Ho
	Taxi passenger 1	Ong Shilin
	Taxi passenger 2	Rowena Tay
	Screen projections creator	Chong Enling
	Special Thanks	GOD for His Blessing and help
		"Auntie" KC
		KS's Parents
		Megan Maria Lim
		Wuu Minyee
		Food Haven Chicken Rice Aunties
	Acknowledgements	SMU Corporate Communications
		SMU Registrar
	Supported by	Singapore Management University (SMU)
	Produced and copyright 2004 of	Richmanclub Studios Pte Ltd