Nan Achnas
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Nan Triveni Achnas is an Indonesian film director.[1]
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Born | 1963 (age 60–61) |
Alma mater | University of East Anglia |
Born in Singapore in 1963,[2] she grew up in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[3] Achnas graduated from the Faculty of Film and Television at the Jakarta Institute of the Arts.[4] She also completed a master's degree in Film Studies at the University of East Anglia in 1996 where she was a Chevening Scholar.[5] While graduating from the University of East Anglia, she directed a film entitled The Only Day (1988) as her diploma film.[4] It won the Grand Prix at the Asian Young Cinema Film Festival in Tokyo.[4] In 2020, she obtained her PhD degree at Nanyang Technological University Singapore with a doctoral thesis on “Experimenting with the essay form and wayang in contemporary Indonesian filmmaking : when shadows are grey”.[6] Apart from directing films, Achnas' teaches film at the Jakarta Institute of the Arts considered as the main film school in Indonesia.[7]