Director, Cameraman, Lighting Camera, Camera Underwater and Editor
Award winning Indonesian filmmaker with vast experience of filming across Indonesia. In 2009, he won Best Asia-Oceania Newcomer Award in Japan Wildlife Film Festival, the biggest wildlife film festival in Asia. He regularly develops environmental films for major international non-governmental organisations. He also trained hundreds of conservation filmmakers in all over Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippine. He currently a director of Gekko Studio.
He never dream to be a filmmaker, "never in my life!" he said. Until 2002, a small training established by EIA and Telapak in Bogor. He is not the participant at that time, just an intruder. Sit in the corner while the training, some time help the participant bought lunch. And try some video editing at night while the participant have they beauty sleep.
Since then he learnt to use a video camera and editing. Start his production with Telapak in 2003. The first film he made is “Forest on the Edge” , a story about honey-hunter in Southeast Sulawesi. And keep continue focus on the campaign video for environmental issue. Until now!
A new policy in Telapak decided in 2006, Multimedia Division must be autonomy. Four of Telapak's staff start a new challenge as the Production Company called Gekko Studio, but not eliminate our basic as the environmentalist. Using video to campaign “save our nature”. And also share our skill to other, the training not only in Indonesia. Gekko Studio trained environmental NGO members in Malaysia and Philippine. Gekko Studio commit to share what their have to the community in the future.
His first trip to Europe in October 2006, to attend Wildscreen in Bristol UK. Is open his eyes from “slow development” of nature and conservation documentary in Indonesia. It was trigger his self to make big leap in the video production, and start won an award in 31th International Wildlife Film Festival in Montana.
Now some of our collaboration video is nominate in the Green Film Festival in Seoul, “Orang Rimba- happiness and lies in the forest” collaborated with Films4-UK and non-competitive section of GFFIS 2009 for “Voices from the Forest-India” collaborated with Dusty Foot production-India.
We will keep making film for change! For better Indonesian environment.
Editor
Hugesta Prattama joined Gekko Studio since 2005 when it was first established. Before joining Gekko Studio, he apprenticed 6 month for edited the film ‘Water Crisis in the Rain City’.
Hugesta Prattama is the Director of Art and the expert editor in Gekko Studio. He gained a Bachelor in Bogor Agricultural University fo Marine Science. He also a member of Fisheries Diving Club in Bogor Agricultural University. Many films he has made, including ‘My Forest Tears’ and ‘Kalimatan’s Craft: Harmony of Culture and Nature’.
Editor
Melly was born at Jakarta, May 9th 1985. She has been interested about film since junior high school but a chance to make a movie by her own is coming she joined with GEKKO STUDIO in 2007. Since that, Melly have a strong motivation to make film about woman and environment. Her first film is Aleta Baun, screened at Nepal Indigenous Film Festival in 2009. She is also a Film Manager and Venue Manager for South to South Film festival 2008 and 2010, an environment film festival in Indonesia.
Yudi Nofiandi
Cameraman and Editor
Cameraman and Editor
Een Irawan Putra joined Gekko Studio since 2005 when it was first established. Before joining Gekko Studio, he worked with Greenpeace Indonesia for a year as a Volunteer Forest Researcher.
His interest and passion for environmental issues, forestry and indigenous peoples in Indonesia began when he studied at the Faculty of Forestry in Bogor Agricultural University and joined the Student Society of Nature Lovers of Bogor Agricultural Institute (LAWALATA IPB). Expedition with his friends in LAWALATA IPB to Komodo National Park in East Nusa Tenggara provided a very valuable experience especially in interacting with local communities. In the course of his work and countless experiences, he realized and appreciates Indonesia as a beautiful country, rich in natural resources and culture.
Starting from an interest to learn photography, he made friends who taught him how to use a video camera. Eventually, he was able to create an audio-visual documentary. What made him learn so much that audio visual plays a vital role in saving forest and biodiversity was when he must go alone in the forest of Seblat in Bengkulu Province. There, he thought what story to show, shot and edited the scenes to raise awareness on the destruction of forest in Seblat and the threatened habitat of the Sumatran elephants, Sumatran tigers and other forest animals.
Since then, he has documented conflicts over forest destruction in several parts of Indonesia, the expulsion of indigenous peoples from their forest dwellings, implementation of controversial government policies, conversion of forest into large-scale plantations, wildlife poaching and other activities affecting the environement and natural resources in Indonesia. He has also filmed local wisdom on forest management and protection and indigenous knowledge on forest product use. His works expanded even to India where he documented forest manangement and non-timber forest product utilization of local communities.