Aldo Swastia

Aldo graduated Bachelor of Arts from Jakarta Institute of Art (IKJ), where he received full scholarship and achieved Cum Laude. His final project, Angin (Eng: An Essence of Wind), was critically acclaimed, nominated for Best Short Film at 2010 Festival Film Indonesia and was screened domestically and internationally. After working as an assistant director and co-director in Indonesian feature films, he directed several projects, namely 2 seasons of "Brata," a HOOQ/Maxstream original crime series and "Dunia Maya," a Vision+ original drama series; co-directed the 2018 Asian Games Opening Ceremony's President Welcome Video; and directed "Di Balik Kubikal," an XL Axiata commercial web series for MyXL channel in Youtube which won The Breakthrough Content Marketing of the Year in Marketeers Editor's Choice Award 2019. He also worked as co-producer in a feature film "Preman." He is in the process of making his first feature film called "Kadet 1947" where he acts as the director and screenwriter. He is also a published fiction writer, with 14 of his short stories were published by Gramedia Pustaka Utama in 2014 under a short story collection called "Memorabilia 8 Februari."