Kamila Andini (born 6 May 1986) is an Indonesian film director known
for her critically acclaimed debut The Mirror Never Lies.Andini was
born on 6 May 1986, the eldest daughter of filmmaker Garin Nugroho.
Although uninterested in cinematography for fear that she would be
"work[ing] in her father's shadow", she began studying photography
while still in junior high school, hoping to "capture people's life
and behavior". While in senior high school her classmates often asked
her father about filmmaking, questions which Andini later said
"ashamed" her because she knew nothing of her father's oeuvre. She
later began to become involved with several film committees. Andini
completed a degree in sociology at Deakin University in Melbourne,
Australia.Upon returning to Indonesia, Andini began to work as a
director. She handled music videos for groups such as Ungu and Slank,
as well as documentaries on music and the ocean. One of these, Lagu
untuk Tukik (A Song for Tukik), dealt with turtles in the ocean in the
Wakatobi Regency â€" part of the Coral Triangle â€" and was screened
as part of the Goethe Institute's Science Film Festival in 2012. In
2009 she assisted her father in directing Generasi Biru (The Blue
Generation), about the band Slank.Andini began production of her first
feature film, The Mirror Never Lies, in 2009. The work took over two
years of research and two months of filming to complete, owing to a
lack of documentary evidence on the Bajau who are central to the
film's narrative. Co-produced by Andini's father and former Miss
Indonesia Nadine Chandrawinata and starring Atiqah Hasiholan, Reza
Rahadian, and Gita Novalista, the film followed a young Bajau girl who
uses mirrors to try to find her lost father. It received numerous
awards both domestically and internationally, including a Best
Director nomination for Andini at the 2011 Indonesian Film Festival
(IFF) and a win in the same category at the following year's Bandung
Film Festival. Kamila Andini Top Movies & Young Movies