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Falcon’s global cinema venture opens door to new challenges, opportunities
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A collage of memories: All for one: Indro, played by Tora Sudiro (right), Dono, played by Abimana Aryasatya (left) and Kasino (Vino G. Bastian) in a scene of 'Warkop DKI Reborn: Jangkrik Boss! Part. 1'. (Courtesy of Falcon Pictures/-)
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s Jakarta production house Falcon Pictures becomes the latest member of Globalgate Entertainment, a consortium established by Canadian-American global content company Lionsgate for local-language film production and distribution worldwide, much work lies ahead for filmmakers at home.
The announcement on Wednesday was made in the wake of the historical Oscar wins for South Korean film Parasite, which has shed light on the global reach of Asian films.
Film critic and editor-in-chief of film website Cinema Poetica, Adrian Jonathan Pasaribu said that while the presence of the global consortium in Indonesia would help expand the market worldwide, he reminded that Indonesian films had yet to be recognized for a unique aesthetic like their Asian counterparts.
“We don’t have a unique film aesthetic except for, perhaps, fight choreography, which could be replicated or manufactured on a large scale. Korean films share a uniqueness among them,” he said.
Indonesian action films such as martial art thriller The Raid (2011) have been recognized globally – its Hollywood remake is in development – largely due to the pencak silat choreography, which also appeared in John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum.
“On a positive note, the inclusion of Falcon in Globalgate should be treated as the impetus of further talks about cultural entrepreneurship within the Indonesian film industry to stay relevant in the globalized yet localized film world,” Adrian added.
