Yuda Kurniawan

Yuda Kurniawan was born in Manggarai, NTT, Indonesia on October 8, 1982. He is a film producer and director has received Citra Award, the highest achievement for Indonesian filmmakers given by Indonesian Film Festival. Since 2002 in Yogyakarta city he has been actively creating audio-visual works. After completing his Bachelor's degree in Communication Studies, Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta in 2006, he moved to Jakarta and worked as a director in several production houses. In 2012 he founded Rekam Docs is an association filmmakers, enthusiast, film screening and distribution based in Jakarta. His documentary films have been screened in various film festivals both domestic and overseas and has won several awards, one of them is Netpac Award (Network for the promotion of Asia Pasific Cinema), this is an award given to Asian film director who shows important contributions to the new Asian cinema movement. Some of his documentary film include: "Pesantren Way's of Dakwah" (2016), "The Ballads of Cinema Lovers" (2017) Best documentary feature nominee of Indonesian Film Festival 2017 and "The Song of Grassroots" (2018) has won Citra Award for best documentary feature of Indonesian Film Festival 2018. The film has been screened in more than 20 film festivals both domestic and overseas, and was screened in theaters on January 16, 2020 ago. Currently he is completing his latest documentary feature entitled "Roda-Roda Nada" which will be released in 2021.