L to R: Andri Cung, Rio Dewanto, Atiqah Hasiholan, Edward Gunawan @ScreenSingapore Red Carpet (cr. Edward Gunawan @twitter)
Indonesian director-scriptwriter-model-actor...-well, you name it!- Edward Gunawan and director Andri Chung from Indonesia won the Asian Short Film Awards at ScreenSingapore 2011, for their movie Payung Merah (Red Umbrella).
The 9.5-minute long movie is picked by a board of jury helmed by legendary filmmaker and three-time Oscar winner Oliver Stone.
Two Indonesian heartthrobs/actors Atiqah Hasiholan and Rio Dewanto play the leading roles in this movie.
The supernatural thriller-drama Payung Merah (Red Umbrella) centers on a taxi driver (Rio Dewanto) who learns to appreciate his loved ones after picking up a beautiful and mysterious passenger (Atiqah Hasiholan). In Bahasa Indonesia with English subtitles, this short film also features theater veteran Zubir Mustaqim and marks the first collaboration between Gunawan and Cung.
Payung Merah (Red Umbrella) competes with 90 entries from 15 countries in Asia-Pacific for the short film awards, which came with a prize of 20,000 Singapore dollars (15,810 U.S. dollars). The entries were submitted by filmmakers in Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Thailand, Philippines, Australia, India, Iran, Bangladesh, Cambodia, New Zealand, Indonesia, as well as China including Hong Kong and Taiwan.
The media week ScreenSingapore kicked off on Sunday evening, with Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi walking the red carpet. The Media Development Authority has said it "is not a film festival" but a film event that will include awards, technologies, content market, conferences and workshops.
Edward Gunawan, 28, who co-directed the short film with 33-year- old Andri Cung, said it was a surprise given that they handed in the application at almost the last minute.
“We actually didn’t even expect the film to be nominated, so we are really shocked by the award. We are truly honored by this recognition,” Cung shares after receiving the award with Gunawan in the opening of ScreenSingapore 2011.
“We made the short film to show what we can do as filmmakers in this genre. Receiving an award like this definitely encourages us very new filmmakers to keep on going. We hope that this will also help us attract and convince potential investors and sponsors to get our feature film made,” Gunawan concludes.
Cung and Gunawan are still working on their feature film debut The Muse. There is also a talk to adapt Payung Merah (Red Umbrella) to a feature film.
Payung Merah (Red Umbrella) had its world premiere in 35th Hong Kong International Film Festival in March 2011. It was then touring the international circuit with screenings at the 2011 Phoenix International Film Festival, International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival, Comicon Film Festival (Arizona, USA), Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (California, USA).
It has also been selected from over 300 submissions to compete at the prestigious Oscar-qualifying 2011 Palm Springs International Short Fest (California, USA) in June.
Congrats, folks!
via Xinhua
The 9.5-minute long movie is picked by a board of jury helmed by legendary filmmaker and three-time Oscar winner Oliver Stone.
Two Indonesian heartthrobs/actors Atiqah Hasiholan and Rio Dewanto play the leading roles in this movie.
The supernatural thriller-drama Payung Merah (Red Umbrella) centers on a taxi driver (Rio Dewanto) who learns to appreciate his loved ones after picking up a beautiful and mysterious passenger (Atiqah Hasiholan). In Bahasa Indonesia with English subtitles, this short film also features theater veteran Zubir Mustaqim and marks the first collaboration between Gunawan and Cung.
Payung Merah (Red Umbrella) competes with 90 entries from 15 countries in Asia-Pacific for the short film awards, which came with a prize of 20,000 Singapore dollars (15,810 U.S. dollars). The entries were submitted by filmmakers in Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Thailand, Philippines, Australia, India, Iran, Bangladesh, Cambodia, New Zealand, Indonesia, as well as China including Hong Kong and Taiwan.
The media week ScreenSingapore kicked off on Sunday evening, with Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi walking the red carpet. The Media Development Authority has said it "is not a film festival" but a film event that will include awards, technologies, content market, conferences and workshops.
Edward Gunawan, 28, who co-directed the short film with 33-year- old Andri Cung, said it was a surprise given that they handed in the application at almost the last minute.
“We actually didn’t even expect the film to be nominated, so we are really shocked by the award. We are truly honored by this recognition,” Cung shares after receiving the award with Gunawan in the opening of ScreenSingapore 2011.
“We made the short film to show what we can do as filmmakers in this genre. Receiving an award like this definitely encourages us very new filmmakers to keep on going. We hope that this will also help us attract and convince potential investors and sponsors to get our feature film made,” Gunawan concludes.
Cung and Gunawan are still working on their feature film debut The Muse. There is also a talk to adapt Payung Merah (Red Umbrella) to a feature film.
Payung Merah (Red Umbrella) had its world premiere in 35th Hong Kong International Film Festival in March 2011. It was then touring the international circuit with screenings at the 2011 Phoenix International Film Festival, International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival, Comicon Film Festival (Arizona, USA), Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (California, USA).
It has also been selected from over 300 submissions to compete at the prestigious Oscar-qualifying 2011 Palm Springs International Short Fest (California, USA) in June.
Congrats, folks!
via Xinhua
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