Aryo Danusiri (born 26 September 1973) is an Indonesian film
director.He started his first documentary, Village Goat Takes The
Beating, about Aceh human rights violations, in 1999. This documentary
was an official selection at the 2001 Amnesty Film Festival in
Amsterdam. Since then, his ethnographic films, documentaries and short
films about human rights and multicultural problems in Indonesia have
been screened at various festivals including the Royal Anthropological
Institute (RAI) Film Festival in the United Kingdom, the Margaret Mead
Film Festival in the United States, as well as festivals in Singapore,
Brisbane, Taiwan and Rotterdam. His three documentaries on Aceh have
been released on DVD for international distribution by Monash
University (Between Three World Project, 2005).In 2005, he finished
his master's degree in visual cultural studies from Tromso University,
Norway, with an ethno-documentary about West Papua called Lukas'
Moment. This film received the "Best Student Film" award at the RAI
Ethnographic Film Festival, UK. He began his Ph.D. studies in visual
anthropology at Harvard University with a grant from the Fulbright
Program. Playing Between Elephants is his first feature-length
documentary and won the Human Rights Award at the 2007 Jakarta
International Film Festival.Danusiri is the executive director of
Ragam Media Network, an NGO that develops visual media as a catalyst
for cross-cultural learning and community knowledge management. His
current project is "Connexxcreen for Countering Fundamentalism in
Indonesia" (sponsored by HIVOS). Aryo Danusiri Top Movies & Young Movies