- The film is Richmanclub Studios' official first film after becoming a fully registered private limited company, and gained a nomination in the prestigious "Chinese Oscars", the Golden Horse Awards, in the International Digital Shorts category. Rich is the only Asian nominee outside of Taiwan, and first Singaporean to be nominated in this category.

- Rich nearly deleted the Golden Horse official nomination email after reading the title, "Congratulations! You have...", thinking it was spam, and that he never had the habit of buying medicine(that online people already know you need), or gained an inheritance(from an unknown unrelated tycoon in the Middle East). Luckily, Rich had the habit of reading junk mail to feel important.

-The film was a commissioning for Singapore Management University's first Commencement Ceremony. Refusing to do corporate stuff, the studio submitted the proposal of a short film to present the University, instead of their original concept of a corporate video. They took the risk.

- The title of the film,” The Alien Invasion", was a tentative working title that became the official title after it became a constant reference to the film.

- The script was modified almost before every shoot due to the huge challenges of scheduling and location from working with the immense cast.

- The original ending to the film had to be changed to the one shown in the final version, as the actors for the last scene decided they could not make it down, a day before.

- Due to the limited budget, all the crew and cast were working on a voluntary basis. The tight production schedule meant that Rich only had less than 20 days to edit, create all the visual effects, and music by himself. A further 1 month was spent to create a final director's cut.

- As a trademark of Rich's films, all the crew members made appearances in the film.

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