Sheila Timothy
Indonesian film producer Sheila Timothy will be honored with the 2015 Motion Picture Association (MPA) Award at CineAsia 2015, next month in Hong Kong.
Andrew Sunshine, co-managing director of CineAsia, said that the annual awards event recognized people that had worked hard to protect filmmakers' rights across the region.
"In addition to being a producer, Sheila has made great strides with the MPA in promoting copyright education," Sunshine said as quoted by filmjournal.com.
CineAsia 2015 is scheduled to take place from Dec. 8 to 10 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center.
Sheila, who is also the president of the Association of Indonesian Film Producers (APROFI), has had a vast career in the advertising and music industries. Several years ago, her focus shifted to producing films through LifeLike Pictures, a company she established in 2008 with her husband Luki Wanandi.
LifeLike Pictures has produced three commercial and critically acclaimed movies: Pintu Terlarang (The Forbidden Door), Modus Anomali and Tabula Rasa.
Teaming with writer-director Joko Anwar, Pintu Terlarang, a thriller starring Fachri Albar and Marsha Timothy, won Best Film at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) in Korea in 2009.
Modus Anomali, another partnership with Joko, won the Bucheon Award at the fourth Network of Asian Fantasic Films (NAFF) Awards in 2011.
The film premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Texas, the US, in March 2012, before its official release in Indonesia in April 2012.
Sheila's third feature, the family drama Tabula Rasa that explored the anthropology of food and how it interconnects people and relationships, also received four awards at the 2014 Indonesian Film Festival in Melbourne.
Sheila's current projects include a family drama titled Sidewalk Dog and a fantasy movie, WS212, which features silat, an Indonesian martial art. (nov/rin)(+)
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