Monday Morning Glory

Set in a small town in southeast Asia, Monday Morning Glory takes place a week after a bombing at a night club, which claims 199 lives. Having captured the core members of a cell group he thinks is responsible for the bombing, the local police chief invites a select group of journalists to witness a “reenactment” of the events leading up to the attack. Already facing immense pressure from his higher-ups and also the press, the chief hopes on this Monday morning to vindicate himself and reveal the truth behind this act of terrorism. The “truth” however, can never seem so far away… This is the debut feature by USA film-school trained Woo Ming Jin, who won MVA's Best Short Film in 2002 (for Mina in Perfection) and famously pursued FINAS for more than a year for the promised RM30,000 grant. The resulting film, Monday Morning Glory, which costs more than three times that amount, has since travelled to the 48th San Francisco International Film Festival 2005. With documentary-like camera work by James Lee.