JAFF Market partners with Adelaide Film Festival
The inaugural JAFF Market is partnering with Adelaide Film Festival to bring Australian projects in development to the project market platform, Jakarta Future Project (JFP) of JAFF Market, taking place in the city of Yogyakarta from December 3-5, 2024.
This international market opportunity is the final stage of the AFF and Jogja NETPAC Asian Film Festival Exchange, which has been supported by the Australian Government. The initiative is an extension of the partnership between AFF and JAFF, and welcomes new collaborator mylab. AFF will support two members of each film’s core team, which must include the producer, to attend the JAFF Market. This new Exchange initiative structured support from mylab, an established international development initiative with participants from across Asia.
“The AFF and Jogja NETPAC Asian Film Festival Exchange has been an incredibly satisfying experience, and I am confident that we have built relationships between our two country’s filmmaking communities that will see long-term, fruitful collaborations. This latest initiative is particularly exciting, helping to advance projects on their path to production. I’d like to thank the Federal Government and the Office for the Arts for their support of the initiative,” Mat Kesting, AFF’s CEO & Creative Director said.
Ifa Isfansyah, Chairperson JAFF Market and Lorna Tee, Curator mylab said: "JAFF and mylab have previously worked with AFF with great pleasure and success in bringing Indonesian, Asian and Australian filmmakers and industry together. This year, with this brand-new collaboration between JAFF Market, mylab and AFF, where we welcome two film projects from Australia as part of the JAFF Future Market and connect the projects to the wider Indonesian and Asian industries, we are confident to see more fruitful connections and vibrant exchanges."
The two Australian projects selected collectively by AFF, JAFF Market and mylab are:
Sampai Mati (working title)
Director: Ben Golotta
Writer: Juli Sastrawan
Company: Repeater Productions (Australia)
Genre: Documentary
Raesita Grey
Director/ Writer: Katrina Irawati Graham
Producer: Ana Tiwary
Genre: Horror Drama
Sampai Mati follows the intertwined journeys of Australian survivors mourning lost loved ones and Balinese locals committed to community healing, revealing how love and resilience transform trauma into hope and renewal in the aftermath of the 2002 Bali bombings.
Sampai Mati director Ben Golotta is a prominent figure in Adelaide’s film industry, known for his work as a Producer/Director and as co-founder of Repeater Productions alongside Morgan Wright. With a strong portfolio comprising award-winning short films, TVCs, and documentaries, Ben has earned recognition as a leading talent in South Australia. His first feature documentary Iron Winter as a producer is set to release in 2025.
Raesita Grey is a feminist horror story, exploring the relationship between two women, one who is dead and secretly longs for life, and one who is alive and secretly longs for death. Haunted by guilt over her husband’s death, pregnant Raesita Grey develops a deadly connection with a Kuntilanak, the most famous of Indonesian ghosts.
Raesita Grey director Katrina Irawati Grahamis an award-winning director and writer known for her work in various genres, including feminist horror. She received two Australian Director’s Guild Awards nominations for Bali 2002, a STAN Original drama series about the 2002 Bali bombings. She wrote and directed a segment of SBS's all-female horror anthology Dark Whispers. She has created two internationally awarded online crime series and is currently developing Mother Tongue, an anti-racist drama, and Siti R. a supernatural tale. She is represented by BMEG.
The project market is headed by Meiske Taurisa, an award-winning producer, hailed the selection as “a diverse range of exciting film projects in early stages of development, presenting a variety of genres that should cater to the appetites of various investors, producers and distributors, looking for stimulating film projects for their pipeline.”
The other partners of JFP are White Light Post (Thailand), Kongchak Studio (Cambodia), BSM Equipment (Indonesia) and more to be announced closer to the market dates.