NANNY NENA’S Adds Seven To The Table For Joey Min’s Fil-Am Martial Arts Comedy
Art School Dropouts revealed the first round of casting for independent martial arts feature comedy Nanny Nena’s on Thursday. News comes as the film’s Kickstarter continues its latest stretch goal campaign of $25,000 since hitting its initial $8000 goal within three hours on day one three weeks ago.
Thursday’s casting lists Rex Navarrete (Asian Persuasion), John Tabaniag (Daughter’s Daughter), Regina Famatigan (Ghost Punchers), Philippe Javier Garcesto (Asian Persuasion), Jean Mary Zarate (“The Last Week”), Liza-Anne Francisco (Hold Up) and Mia Bompensa. The septet now join lead actress and martial artist Angela Jordan (Yes, Auntie!) and martial artist, weapons specialist and TV personality Doug Marcaida (“Forged In Fire) for the project which shoots later this year.
“We ran the casting for about two weeks,” said producer Stephanie Pham who announced casting two weeks ago, a week after the Kickstarter launched. “There are still some roles we have yet to cast, but what we have cast so far, these people blew the audition out the water. They absolutely killed it.”
Nanny Nena’s is a billed as a cultural table setter for a Filipino-American story, focusing on a large family that inherits their late Auntie Nena’s catering business. The official logline reads as follows: “When Angela (Jordan) picks up her cousin from the airport for a family reunion, she expects an awkward day of deliveries and family obligations. Instead, the pair find themselves caught in the middle of a criminal scheme involving a stolen flash drive, internet-famous troublemakers, and a mob boss determined to get his property back. Filled with food, family, martial arts, and plenty of chaos, Nanny Nena’s is an action-comedy about carrying forward the traditions that connect us.”
Joey Min is directing Nanny Nena’s in his third feature effort since following up his “My Asian Auntie” webseries with the 2019 debut feature, Yes, Auntie. A veteran of indie action since pre-YouTube in the early 2000s, Min has stayed the course with the eventual launch of independent label Art School Dropouts in 2015, earning recognition for other shortform projects such as “Nerf Assassin,” “Lady,” “Broken,” and “Gunslinger Mary”. He also served as action director with fight choreographers Pham and Jordan on Michael Jai White’s Trouble Man from Samuel Goldwyn Films.
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