Kamila Andini (born 6 May 1986) is an Indonesian film director known for her critically acclaimed debut The Mirror Never Lies.
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Kamila Andini | |
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Born | (1986-05-06) 6 May 1986 (age 36) Jakarta, Indonesia |
Citizenship | Indonesian |
Alma mater | Deakin University |
Occupation | Director |
Notable work | The Mirror Never Lies |
Spouse | Ifa Isfansyah |
Parent | Garin Nugroho |
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 the 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 newest film, Yuni, premiered at the Platform program during the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival.[11]
In March 2012 Andini married fellow director Ifa Isfansyah.[12] 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.[13]
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 | Yes | |
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 |
Year | Award | Category | Recipients | Result |
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2011 | Indonesian Film Festival | Citra Award for Best Director | The Mirror Never Lies | Nominated |
2017 | Indonesian Film Festival | Citra Award for Best Director | Sekala Niskala | Nominated |
Films directed by Kamila Andini | |
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