Farewell My School
Synopsis
Lintang had suffered a vision handicap, called low vision, which made him can only see things if it were close to his eyes. He went to a special school and now he is about to graduate. He will leave all of his best friends behind, and get ready for the real world outside the school.
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Ucu Agustin
Ucu Agustin is a writer, was a journalist, and documentary filmmaker now based in Washington D.C, USA, and Jakarta, Indonesia. Over ten years, Ucu has made dozens of well known documentaries in Indonesia and consistently making film about women and democracy, exploring injustices perpetrated against society’s weakest members, and how they fight back. Ucu won Jan Vrijman Fund (now Hubert Bals Fund) for her first short documentary script development, Death in Jakarta (2006), Jakarta Foreign Correspondents Club grant for Conspiracy of Silence (2011), Ciptamedia Bersama Grant by Ford Foundation in collaboration with Wikimedia Indonesia and The Alliance of Independent Journalists Indonesia for Behind The Frequency (2013), the IDFA KID-DOC grant for Kid Documentary Farewell My School (2013). Her latest project, How Far I’ll Go (2019), won Tribeca Film Institute’s If/Then Short Pitch Competition South East Asia 2018 and receipt completion fund and mentorship.
