FRED’s Matt Micucci meets the Indonesian filmmaker Eddie Cahyono, whose film “Siti” had its international premiere in the Bright Future section of the 44th International Film Festival Rotterdam. Eddie talks with us about his fascination with stories about strong women. He also explains his choice of using black and white photography and a documentary style cinematography and gives us some info about his miniscule budget and extremely tight shooting schedule.
Plot: It’s almost a genre: simple black & white films about poor young women who are forced to take the wrong path. Such as this sensitively filmed story about the young mother and fisherman’s wife Siti. Her husband has been paralysed and that’s why she has two maintain the family on her own. The karaoke bar lures her.
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Gemma Lynch is the Head of Production of Sardinia film Commission. She has been at the European film Market bringing a huge delegation of professionals from the region to navigate inside the European Film Market to be known and to …