Sunday January 7, 2007
The director of Berbagi Suami By DAPHNE LEE BERBAGI Suami, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York in April 2006, won the best film award at the Hawaii International Film Festival in October. It¡¯s the latest feather in Nia Dinata¡¯s cap as one of the most exciting directors to emerge in Indonesia over the last 10 years ... and she¡¯s only just 36! Although her first feature film, Ca Bau Kan (The Courtesan) was released in 2001, Nia has been honing her craft since the mid-1990s. In 1995, following a degree in mass communications from Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, and a course in film production at New York University, in the United States, the Jakarta native returned to Indonesia to work in television. In 1998, Nia won the best drama award at the Indonesian Film for TV Festival for a telemovie called Mencari Pelangi (In Search of the Rainbow). Since then she has won several other honours, including the most promising new director and best art director awards at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival in Seoul, South Korea, in 2002, for Ca Bau Kan; and the best film and best editing awards at the 2004 Indonesian Film Festival, for Arisan (The Gathering), a film which portrays Jakarta¡¯s gay community. Her willingness to tackle such controversial issues has won her warm praise and respect in the industry. And Berbagi Suami caused a few ripples in the West where polygamy is even more of a taboo topic than it is in the East. ¡°In Tribeca, Cannes and Hawaii, the comments were very positive, but there was surprise and amazement at how polygamy could be so common and casual. Polygamy is illegal in the West and so the subject is quite exciting and daring over there.¡± In Indonesia, Nia has received varied feedback, depending on where the film is screened. ¡°There is a big difference depending on where in the country you live in terms of the gap between the rich and the poor, the educated and uneducated,¡± says Nia. ¡°In Jakarta, people are more open-minded. The mature audience expects to see something different. Outside Jakarta, audiences are more conservative. When I was doing radio publicity in Jakarta, the callers were both men and women. Outside Jakarta it was mostly men, who were very defensive. They were angry that I had chosen polygamy as a subject, yet most had not even seen the movie!¡± http://www.star-ecentral.com/news/story.asp?file=/2007/1/7/movies/16475637&sec=movies _________________________________________________________________ The MSN Entertainment Guide to Golden Globes is here. Get all the scoop. http://tv.msn.com/tv/globes2007/?icid=nctagline2 Web: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mediacare/ Klik: http://mediacare.blogspot.com atau www.mediacare.biz Untuk berlangganan MEDIACARE, kirim email kosong ke: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mediacare/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mediacare/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
