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Aryo Danusiri (born 26 September 1973) is an Indonesian film director. He started direct his first documentary on Aceh Human Rights Violations Village Goat Takes The Beating in 1999. His first Aceh documentary, “Village Goat Takes The Beating” was an official selection at the 2001 Amnesty Film Festival, Amsterdam. Since then, his ethnographic films, documentaries and short films about human rights and multicultural problems in Indonesia have been screened at various festivals including RAI (UK), the Margaret Mead Film Festival (USA), as well as in Singapore, Brisbane, Taiwan and Rotterdam. His three documentaries on Aceh has been released in DVD for International distribution by Monash University (Between Three World Project, 2005). In 2005, he finished his Master’s Degree in Visual Cultural Studies from Tromsoe University, Norway with an ethno-documentary about West Papua, “Lukas’ Moment”. This film received “Best Student Film” at the RAI Ethnographic Film Festival, UK. Danusiri is the executive director of Ragam Media Network, an NGO that develops visual media as a catalyst for cross-cultural learning and community knowledge management. His current project is "Connexxcreen for Countering Fundamentalism in Indonesia " (sponsored by HIVOS). Next fall, he will begin his Ph.D. studies in Visual Anthropology at Harvard University with a grant from Fulbright. "Playing Between Elephants" is his first feature length documentary.
[edit] Filmography
- Playing Between Elephants (Di Antara Gajah-gajah) (2007)
- Lukas' Moment (Lukas' Moment)(2005)
- Abracadabra! (2003)
- The Poet of Linge Homeland (Penyair Negeri Linge) (2000)
- Village Goat Takes The Beating (Kambing Kampung Yang Kena Pukul) (1999)
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