NATIONAL JURY BOARD 2022

Eric Sasono is an Indonesian film critic who obtained his doctoral degree in film studies from King’s College London in 2019. He co-founded the Indonesian Film Society, a London-based community group to screen films regularly in London and to promote Indonesian culture to the UK public and beyond. For ten years (2009-2019), Eric was the executive board’s secretary of YMMFI, the Indonesian Independent Film Society Foundation, that established the Indonesian Documentary Center (In-Docs) and organized the now-defunct Jakarta International Film Festival (JIFFest). Eric has co-written a book about the Indonesian film industry and edited a volume about Southeast Asian cinema. He is now working in a Jakarta-based civil society organization while working on his research about ‘film Islami’. Eric is actively blogging on ericsasono.com

Founder and director of LABORATORIOS BLACK VELVET, an integral film management company, he is one of the founding members of the Colombian Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences – ACACC. Founder and director of the Bogotá Short Film Festival, BOGOSHORTS, conceptual designer of the #BOGOSHORTSMovement and strategist of distribution agency #BOGOSHORTSFilmAgency. Founder and editor for 20 years of #PANTALLACOLOMBIA, a weekly newsletter about Colombian cinema, owned by Proimágenes Colombia, he has been jury and/or programmer in several film festivals including Tampere Film Festival (Finland), Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal (Canada), Curta Cinema (Brazil), Interfilm Berlin (Germany), among others. He has also worked as a teacher in many film programs at the Externado de Colombia, Jorge Tadeo Lozano and Politécnico Grancolombiano universities, and as a professor of Film Distribution and Marketing as part of the International School of Film and TV – EICTV’s production program, in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba.

Since 2004, Meiske Taurisia has been actively involved in several short and feature film productions. In 2016 she co-founded Palari Films and produced Posesif (2017, SGIFF), as well as Aruna & Her Palate (2018, Culinary Cinema, Berlinale). Both films won several awards, for Best Director (Edwin), Best Actress (Putri Marino), Best Adaptation (Titien Wattimena) and Best Supporting Actor (Nicholas Saputra). In 2021, she released Ali & Ratu Ratu Queens, a Netflix Original, which became the most searched Indonesian film on Google. In the same year, Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash, which she produced, world premiered and won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival. She founded the Cipta Citra Indonesia Foundation in 2012, which supports the independent film ecosystem through organizations and initiatives such as Kolektif (distribution), Kinosaurus (micro cinema) and LOCK (film lab).

He is Aceh Film Festival’s Programming Director. He’s been a foreign correspondent for sindie.sg, an editorial platform that observes the culture of Southeast Asian films, and is an alumni of the Asian Cinema Education Course “Criticism Film – Long Written Forms. Film Analysis, Essay and Review”, a program initiated by Five Flavors Asian Film Festival. He has been Indonesia Raja’s programmer for Aceh since 2021.

He has been working as a television journalist for 6 years, including as a journalist for Kompas TV in Buleleng Regency. In 2017, he joined the Mahima community’s film division and has actively produced documentary and fiction short films. He has been a programmer for Indonesia Raja since 2019.

RASYID FAQIH
Filmmaker, Programmer, Screen Writer / Yogyakarta, Indonesia

He graduated from the Yogyakarta Indonesian Art Institute’s Faculty of Recording Media Arts, specializing in film and television studies. He has been part of Minikino Film Week’s preselection committee and programming team since 2021. He is the new Indonesia Raja programmer for the Yogyakarta region.

NOSA NORMANDA
Anthropologist, Filmmaker, Lecturer / Jakarta, Indonesia

An anthropologist, filmmaker, producer and lecturer, he once worked as a journalist in the United States of America and has made dozens of short films. In 2019, he founded Mondiblanc Film Workshop, a film, media and business workshop. This year, he will produce his first feature film. He has been the programmer for Indonesia Raja Jakarta since 2021.

Founder of the Cinema Cirebon film community, she is also the director of Festival Film Bahari. In addition to the annual festival, she organizes screening events with local communities in Cirebon. She has been working as a Programmer for the Indonesia Raja for Cirebon and West Java region since 2018.

WAHYUDHA
Filmmaker, Programmer / Padangpanjang, Indonesia

He has been involved in several film productions and film-related activities in West Sumatra since 2015, as well as in CWW International Film Lab, Bali (2019). He was a Makara Emas Awards jury member for the University of Indonesia short film competition (2019-2020). A curator for “Program Semester Pendek” by Kolektif Film in 2021, he became a programmer for Indonesia Raja Padangpanjang that same year.

GERRY JUNUS
Film Programmer, KDM Cinema / Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Programming director of KDM Cinema, he also serves as chairman of the Jogja Film Commission’s exhibition division. In addition, he organizes screening events together with Club Sinema Sisifus in Salatiga.