Nan Triveni Achnas is an Indonesian film director.Born in Singapore in
1963, she grew up in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Achnas graduated from the
Faculty of Film and Television at the Jakarta Institute of the Arts.
She also completed a master's degree in Film Studies at the University
of East Anglia in 1996 where she was a Chevening Scholar. While
graduating from the University of East Anglia, she directed a film
entitled The Only Day (1988) as her diploma film. It won the Grand
Prix at the Asian Young Cinema Film Festival in Tokyo. When she is not
directing films, Achnas' teaches film at the Jakarta Institute of the
Arts which is the main film school in Indonesia.Achnas first got
noticed in 1995 with her short film The Little Gayo Singer. She went
forward to direct 5 other films, one of which she also undertook the
role of producer (Bendera, 2002). Nan Achnas, together with Mira
Lesmana, an independent producer and director, were actively part of a
self-aware film movement regarding the participation of women in film.
The movement began through the experimental film, Kuldesak (1998),
which they collectively produced near the beginning of Achnas'
career.Achnas, along with other female Indonesian filmmakers, finds it
difficult to increase the participation of women in both the political
and social realms of life and work to promote gender politics in
Indonesia. When asked about facing discrimination as a woman
filmmaker, Achnas says: Nan Achnas Top Movies & Young Movies