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B-movie star remains chair of film actors association
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B-grade actor: Gatot Brajamusti, a former spiritual leader of celebrities turn B-movie celebrity himself, hugs a stuffed tiger. (Twitter.com/@AaGatot2014)
G
atot Brajamusti, a “spiritual leader” of celebrities turn B-movie actor, retained his position as chair of the Indonesian Film Actors Association (Parfi) after a congress this weekend in Mataram, Lombok.
He got 464 votes, far ahead of his rival Andrey da Silva with 78.
“The voting for the chair has been open and democratic and [Gatot] has been elected chair for the next five years,” said Lalu Winengan, the head of the congress committee on Sunday.
Gatot was the chair from 2011 to 2016, a position he acquired with controversy as a group of actors led by former Parfi chair Yenny Rachman filed a report against him to South Jakarta Police, accusing him of forging documents during the voting in 2011.
Yenny said one of the requirements to become the chair was to have had a starring role in a film production. At that time Gatot had yet to star in any movies but Gatot claimed he was the lead role in the 1990s film Jendela Rumah Kita. “But we know the lead role was [played by] Dede Yusuf,” the plaintiff’s lawyer, Henry Yosodiningrat, said back then in 2011.
After his election, Gatot said he wanted to move away from the internal conflict that had plagued the association for a decade and wanted the Parfi return its focus on “creating national films worthy of entering international festivals.”
Gatot started his career in film in 2012 with B-movie Ummi Aminah. Later, his company PT Gatot Brajamusti Film produced another B-movie in 2013, Azrax: Melawan Sindikat Perdagangan Wanita (Azrax: Fighting against the Women Trafficking Syndicate), in which he played Azrax. (evi)
