Sunday, July 26, 2009

"KANTATA TAKWA" WAKILI INDONESIA DI FESTIVAL FILM BRISBANE

"Kantata Takwa" menjadi satu-satunya film karya sineas Indonesia yang ikut memeriahkan Festival Film Internasional Brisbane (BIFF) yang akan berlangsung selama 11 hari mulai Kamis (30/7).

Informasi yang dihimpun ANTARA di Brisbane, Senin, menyebutkan, film Indonesia yang dirilis tahun 2008 itu akan diputar dua kali, yakni pada 4 dan 9 Agustus.

Film semi dokumenter yang antara lain dibintangi W.S. Rendra, Iwan Fals, Sawung Jabo, Setiawan Djody, dan Clara Sinta itu menyuarakan protes terhadap rezim represif Orde Baru.

BIFF 2009 yang acara pembukaannya akan dilangsungkan di Sinema "Regent" Brisbane pada 30 Juli malam itu dimeriahkan puluhan film dari 48 negara.

Tuan rumah, Australia, menyuguhkan 37 film dalam festival film yang sudah digelar sejak 1992 dan menyedot sedikitnya 350 ribu pencinta film di negara itu.

Di antara film-film Australia yang diputar selama BIFF itu adalah "Aunty Maggie and the Womba Wakgun", "Balibo", "Bourke Boy", "Chainsaw", "Dance of Death", "Darra Dogs", dan "Dreamland".

Selain dimeriahkan film-film Indonesia dan Australia, BIFF 2009 juga menyuguhkan film-film dari 44 negara lainnya, seperti Belanda, Jepang, Kazakhstan, Jerman, Uruguay, Amerika Serikat, Swedia, Norwegia, dan Inggris.

Pada Juli dan Agustus 2009 ini, selain menyelenggarakan BIFF, Australia juga menggelar Festival Film Internasional Melbourne (MIFF).

Seperti halnya di BIFF, film Indonesia juga ikut memeriahkan MIFF. Di festival film Melbourne yang berlangsung dari 24 Juli hingga 9 Agustus itu, Indonesia mengikutsertakan tiga film, yakni "Babi Buta yang Ingin Terbang", "Rumah Gila", dan "Jermal".

Di dua festival film internasional itu, panitia menyuguhkan film "Balibo" karya Sutradara Robert Connolly yang mengangkat kisah kematian lima orang jurnalis asal Australia di Timor Timur tahun 1975.

*) My news for ANTARA on July 27, 2009

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Hi, I am a journalist of ANTARA, Indonesia's national news agency whose headquarters is in Jakarta. My fate has brought me back to Australia since March 2007 because my office assigns me to be the ANTARA correspondent there. My first visit to the neighboring country was in 2004 when I did my masters at the School of Journalism and Communication, the University of Queensland (UQ), Brisbane, under the Australian Development Scholarship (ADS) scheme. However, the phase of my life was started from a small town in North Sumatra Province, called Pangkalan Brandan. In that coastal town, I was born and grown up. Having completed my senior high school there in 1987, I moved to Medan to pursue my study at the University of North Sumatra (USU) and obtained my Sarjana (BA) degree in English literature in 1992. My Master of Journalism (MJ) was completed at UQ in July 2005. The final research project report for my MJ degree was entitled "Framing the Australian Embassy Bombing (Jakarta) in Indonesian and Australian Newspapers". Further details about me can be read in a writing posted in my blog entitled "My Life Journey".

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