Short Documentary Competition
Program Note
Celebrating the 21st year of the competition program, Festival Film Dokumenter received a wide array of vibrant documentary films from around Indonesia and all over the world. This program consistently strives to show documentary films that are reflective and intervene the social reality through creative ways of storytelling.
In this year of 2022, we have received 400 films that are selected by a committee of fellows from within and also good supporters of FFD from over the years. Luckily, the numbers and quality of films has been growing over the past four years of it’s being divided in four categories. The four categories in competition are International Feature-length Documentary, Indonesian Feature-length Documentary, Short Documentary, and Student Documentary.
We selected 3 student documentary films, 8 short documentary films, 3 Indonesian feature-length documentary films, and 8 of international feature-length documentary films to be screened during the six-day festival. From each category, the team of final juries will award one winner that will be announced at the closing night of the festival. The competition program honors the emergence of documentaries with perspectives, storytelling styles, and colorful approaches every year, and hence we look forward to having more in the upcoming future!
Associate Programmer: Rugun Sirait and Riskya Duavania
Jury
Puiyee is an arts manager and film programmer based in Singapore. She is currently the Senior Manager at Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, where she manages the film programmes. She was previously the programme manager of the Singapore International Film Festival (2014‒2019), where she led the Short Films programme. She has been invited to be on the selection panel of SEAShorts Film Festival in Malaysia, World Press Photo Digital Storytelling Contest (Long category), Busan International Film Festival, Bangkok ASEAN Film Festival, and was a Screener for SXSW 2022.
Her work in film started in 2000, organizing the Jakarta International Film Festival. Since then she’s been involved in film production as producer and director for documentary films, project market, and pitching forum. Founded Biru Terong Initiative in 2015, which focuses on using film as a tool to create impact, Biru Terong is a network of Video4Change. She also worked for the government program; Akatara since 2018 with the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, and joined Indonesiana Film since 2021 with the Ministry of Education and Culture. She has worked for Salto Production (now Base.id), Kalyana Shira Foundation, and Viu Indonesia. She collaborated with Sokola Rimba, Yayasan Perempuan Kepala Keluarga, Toraja Melo, Indonesia Film Coop, and Yayasan Odesa. She is now in Dewan Film Indonesia, festival board for Jakarta Film Week, and board of advisor for Puan Seni, an Indonesian women artist collective.
Woto Wibowo is an artist active across the fields of contemporary art, design, music, and socio-cultural activities. He is a member of artist collective Ruang MES 56 in Yogyakarta, runs the music label Yes No Wave Music and initiated the Indonesian Netaudio Forum. He was the curator of Biennale Jogja XIII in 2015. He is interested in developing an experimentation of collective platform, interdisciplinary works, contemporary cultural intervention using curatorial aesthetic and speculative approach as his artistic practice.