Nan Achnas

Nan Achnas
Born1963 (age 60–61)
Singapore
Alma materUniversity of East Anglia

Nan Triveni Achnas is an Indonesian film director.[1]

Born in Singapore in 1963,[2] she grew up in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[3] Achnas graduated from the Faculty of Film and Television at the Jakarta Institute of the Arts.[4] She also completed a master's degree in Film Studies at the University of East Anglia in 1996 where she was a Chevening Scholar.[5] While graduating from the University of East Anglia, she directed a film entitled The Only Day (1988) as her diploma film.[4] It won the Grand Prix at the Asian Young Cinema Film Festival in Tokyo.[4] In 2020, she obtained her PhD degree at Nanyang Technological University Singapore with a doctoral thesis on “Experimenting with the essay form and wayang in contemporary Indonesian filmmaking : when shadows are grey”.[6] Apart from directing films, Achnas' teaches film at the Jakarta Institute of the Arts considered as the main film school in Indonesia.[7]

  1. ^ Webb, Cynthia (October 26, 2010). "Nan Achnas: A life immersed in cinema". The Jakarta Post.
  2. ^ "KVIFF | The Photograph". www.kviff.com. 2018. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference :5 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ a b c "Nan T. Achnas Festival Scope: Festivals on Demand for Film Professionals World Wide". pro.festivalscope.com. 2010–2018. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
  5. ^ "Directory of Chevening Alumni". Chevening UK Government Scholarships. 24 August 2014. Archived from the original on 23 August 2015.
  6. ^ "Achnas, N. T. (2020). Experimenting with the essay form and wayang in contemporary Indonesian filmmaking : when shadows are grey. Doctoral thesis". Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 9 September 2021. hdl:10356/142100. Archived from the original on 12 December 2020.
  7. ^ Kelly, Gabrielle; Robson, Cheryl (2014). Celluloid Ceiling: Women Film Directors Breaking Through. UK: Aurora Metro Books. ISBN 9780956632951.