Kamila Andini | |
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 Andini, 2018 | |
| Born | 6 May 1986 Jakarta, Indonesia |
| Citizenship | Indonesian |
| Alma mater | Deakin University |
| Occupation | Director |
| Notable work | The Mirror Never Lies |
| Spouse | Ifa Isfansyah |
| Parent | Garin Nugroho |
Kamila Andini (born 6 May 1986) is an Indonesian film director known for her critically acclaimed debut, The Mirror Never Lies .
Andini was born on 6 May 1986 and is the eldest daughter of filmmaker Garin Nugroho. [1] Although uninterested in cinematography for fear that she would be "work[ing] in her father's shadow", [2] she began studying photography while still in junior high school, hoping to "capture people's life and behavior". [1] While in senior high school her classmates often asked her father about film making, questions which Andini later said "ashamed" her because she knew nothing of her father's oeuvre. [1] She later began to become involved with several film committees. Andini completed a degree in sociology at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. [1]
Upon her return to Indonesia, Andini began to work as a director. She handled music videos for groups such as Ungu and Slank, as well as documentaries on music and the ocean. [1] One of these, Lagu untuk Tukik (A Song for Tukik), dealt with turtles in the ocean in the Wakatobi Regency – part of the Coral Triangle – and was screened as part of the Goethe Institute's Science Film Festival in 2012. [3] In 2009 she assisted her father in directing Generasi Biru (The Blue Generation), about the band Slank. [4]
Andini began production of her first feature film, The Mirror Never Lies , in 2009. The work took over two years of research [1] and two months of filming to complete, [5] owing to a lack of documentary evidence on the Bajau who are central to the film's narrative. [1] Co-produced by Andini's father and former Miss Indonesia Nadine Chandrawinata and starring Atiqah Hasiholan, Reza Rahadian, and Gita Novalista, the film was based on a young Bajau girl who uses mirrors to try to find her lost father. [6] It received numerous awards both domestically and internationally, including a Best Director nomination at the 2011 Indonesian Film Festival (IFF) before winning in the same category at the 2012's Bandung Film Festival. [7]
In May 2012 she started working on her second feature film, to be about children and nature. [8] This became The Seen and Unseen (2017), a critically acclaimed work about young Balinese twins, one of whom is dying. [9] It won the Adelaide Film Festival's Feature Fiction Award in 2019. [10]
Her 2021 film Yuni premiered at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival where it won the Platform Prize. [11] [12] In 2022 Andini's fourth feature film Before, Now & Then had its world premiere at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival. [13]
In 2023 she explored Indonesia's social history through her Netflix original series Cigarette Girl. The story is set within Indonesia's tobacco industry and was directed alongside her partner Ifa Isfansyah. [14]
In March 2012 Andini married fellow director Ifa Isfansyah. [15] The two fell in love with each other after Isfansyah's 2011 film Sang Penari (The Dancer) had provided stiff competition to Andini's The Mirror Never Lies at the IFF. [16]
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes |
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| 2011 | The Mirror Never Lies | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2015 | Following Diana | Yes | Yes | No | Short film |
| 2016 | Chaotic Love Poems | No | No | Yes | |
| 2017 | The Seen and Unseen | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2018 | Sekar | Yes | No | Yes | Short film |
| 2019 | Mountain Song | No | No | Yes | |
| 2021 | Yuni | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2022 | Before, Now & Then | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2023 | Cigarette Girl | Yes | No | No | TV series on Netflix |
| Year | Award | Category | Recipients | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Indonesian Film Festival | Best Director | The Mirror Never Lies | Nominated |
| 2017 | The Seen and Unseen | Nominated | ||
| 2021 | Yuni | Nominated | ||
| 2022 | Before, Now & Then | Nominated | ||
| 2023 | Busan International Film Festival with Marie Claire Asia Star Awards [17] | Visionary Director Award | Cigarette Girl | Won |
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