EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning actor John Cho (Searching, Star Trek) has signed on to Erick Oh’s animated short, Namoo, as an executive producer.Pic is Oh’s follow-up to Opera, which landed him an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short Film earlier this year.Namoo—which translates in Korean to “tree”—is a hand-painted narrative poem inspired by the passing of Oh’s grandfather.
The short follows the beautiful and heartbreaking moments of a man’s life, from beginning to end, and is billed as the writer-director’s most personal work to date.
It’s being produced by nine-time Emmy winner Baobab Studios.“Though Erick’s film is based on his grandfather, it resonated for me in a very personal way.
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