Cannes- Singapore’s Monsoon Pictures and Dutch filmmakers IdtV Film will co-produce a US$6.5 million feature film to chronicle the Maria Hertogh riots, an event dating back to Singapore’s colonial history. Titled Nadra, it tells the story of 13-year-old Dutch girl Bertha Hertogh (a.k.a. Maria Huberdina Hertogh and Nadra binte Maarof), whose custody battle in 1950 between her birth parents and Malay adoptive mother led to a riot in Singapore and adversely affected Hertogh and the people around her. The film will be in English, Dutch and Malay, and will be helmed by Dutch director Ben Sombogaart, whose last collaboration effort with IdtV Film, Twin Sisters, was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film in 2004 and was sold to more than 40 territories. Filming in the Netherlands, Singapore and Malaysia is expected to commence in mid-2008. Amsterdam-based A Film Distribution has taken distribution rights for Benelux, while Singapore’s Golden Village Pictures will distribute the film in Singapore. Nadra is supported by the Singapore Film Commission (SFC), which awarded it a development grant in 2006 under its Project Development Scheme.