Film Director Services

Here is what that looks like on the ground. We connect shoots with directors across Indonesia, drawing on a talent base centred on Jakarta, the heart of the domestic film and television industry, and Bali, with its set up commercial-production ecosystem. Our team matches the director to the project's genre and intent, whether that is a feature, a streaming episode, a commercial, or a branded film, and we give showreels and arrange meetings so clients can check fit directly. For a global shoots engaging a local director, we make sure clear English-language communication with producers and heads of department.

Here is how the picture comes together. We surround the director with the assistant directors, line producer and crew the shoot needs. We are straightforward about how Indonesia works as a production base: a cost-competitive, emerging destination with an extraordinary location range, where filming permits are set up with national and regional authorities. Budgets are managed transparently in Indonesian rupiah. We plan the inter-island logistics that a director's shooting schedule demands. Indonesian directors work within one of Asia's most dynamic film cultures.

Here is what we have to work with. The domestic industry is large and fast-growing, one of the biggest in the region by cinema admissions. It has produced worldwide acclaimed work across genres: Gareth Evans's Jakarta-shot martial-arts films 'The Raid' and 'The Raid 2', the horror of Joko Anwar in 'Satan's Slaves' and 'Impetigore', Mouly Surya's 'Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts', and Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary 'The Act of Killing'. Heavy investment from Netflix and other streamers has further deepened the pool of skilled directors.

Here is the layout. A director shooting across Indonesia commands settings from the volcanoes of Java and Bali to the rainforests of Sumatra and the reefs of Raja Ampat, in a country of over 1,300 ethnic groups and more than 700 languages, and the strongest local directors bring a fluent feel for that cultural and geographic range.