Private Project

AMELIS

A young man wants to bring his father back to their hometown in such a distrustful journey for anyone who happens to pass them along the road.

  • Dery Prananda
    Director
  • Dery Prananda
    Writer
  • Dery Prananda
    Producer
  • Paulo Da Silva
    Key Cast
  • Harto Sedjono
    Key Cast
  • Andrianto Putra
    Director Of Photography
  • Fantri Pribadi
    Artistic
  • Muhajir
    Artistic
  • Dery Prananda
    Editor
  • Mochammad Aziz
    Editor
  • Mochammad Aziz
    Music
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 32 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 15, 2016
  • Country of Origin:
    Indonesia
  • Country of Filming:
    Indonesia
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • ReelOzInd Australia Indonesia Short Film Competition And Festival
    Melbourne
    Australia
    August 21, 2016
    Australia Premiere
    Best Film & Best Fiction
  • ReelOzInd Australia Indonesia Short Film Competition And Festival
    Surabaya
    Indonesia
    August 22, 2016
    Indonesia Premiere
    Best Film & Best Fiction
  • APRESIASI FILM INDONESIA (AFI) 2016
    Manado
    Indonesia
    Nominee
  • JOGJA-NETPAC ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2016
    Yogyakarta
    Indonesia
    November 29, 2016
    Official Selection
  • PIALA MAYA 2016 (Maya Award)
    Jakarta
    Indonesia
    December 10, 2016
    Nominee
Director Biography - Dery Prananda

Dery Prananda is a filmmaker based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Dery works as a director and line producer on local independent film productions in Indonesia and is also a lecturer and teaches film production in some colleges in Jakarta and Yogyakarta. Dery sometimes gets ideas for the characters in his films, from his everyday life experience.
Dery graduated with a Master of Art in the Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Surakarta, in 2017. He directed the short film, Amelis, in 2016, which was selected by several film festivals in Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, Germany, and Argentina, and was nominated for Best Film at the ReelOzInd Australia Indonesia Short Film Festival (Australia). His body of work for filmmaking is influenced by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Akira Kurosawa, and Garin Nugroho’s works.

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Director Statement

Amelis means "ignored". Inspired by some true stories that happened not only in rural areas in Indonesia but also in big cities including Jakarta. When the gadget and social media phenomenon emerged, most of us became asocial and there was an attitude of neglect towards the people around us who may need our help as fellow human beings.