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Four Projects Receive Indonesia’s Inaugural Film Matching Grant
The selected projects include This City is a Battlefield, Crocodile Tears, Samsara and Tale of The Land.
Hilmar Farid, Indonesia’s director-general of Culture at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology, said: “We hope that this category will not only support Indonesian filmmakers in manifesting their creative ideas, but will have an impact on expanding international networks that will be built, increasing the capacity of Indonesian filmmakers because they have to work to world standards, various transfers of expertise, and in the long run will produce Indonesian films that tell stories about Indonesia’s diversity in the eyes of the world.” Alex Sihar, Special Staff to the Director-General of Culture, added: “Many foreign parties expressed their desire to collaborate with Indonesian producers because they were interested in this matching fund scheme. The results of this piloting will then be followed by the opening of this scheme to all Indonesian filmmakers who are developing projects with the support of international grants.”
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