SPEAKERS

An architect and co-founder of the art-house cinema MASH Denpasar. She has served as guest programmer, preselection committee, and jury for various national and international short film festivals. Alongside her curatorial work, she facilitates and mentors filmmaking and film critic workshops, focusing on creating writing that resonates with both cinephiles and general readers.

Mia Santosa is a dedicated co-producer at Visinema, Indonesia’s leading storytelling company known for its acclaimed multi-genre theatrical releases. Since 2019, Mia has played a key role in most of Visinema’s projects, currently overseeing funding strategies for both production and distribution across the company’s slate. Her portfolio includes notable films such as 24 Hours with Gaspar (2023), which competed in the Jiseok Competition at the Busan Film Festival 2023; Ali Topan (2023), which had its World Premiere at Busan Film Festival 2023; and 13 Bombs (2023), the closing film at the Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival 2023. Her recent works include Home Sweet Loan (2024), produced by Cristian Immanuel, known for the box office hit Stealing Raden Saleh (2022); Jumbo (2025), currently the highest-grossing Indonesian film of all time and the top-grossing animated feature in Southeast Asia; and Call Me Dad (2025), the first co-production with Korean entertainment giant CJ ENM, adapted from their acclaimed film Pawn (2020). Moving forward, Mia aims to elevate Visinema’s global presence and strengthen international collaborations to reach broader audiences.

At some point in college, Ifan Ismail had just realized that he had been a film-buff since he was a child. Through his activities in the Student Film League (Liga Film Mahasiswa/LFM) in ITB, he was immersed even deeper in the world of cinema. He tried his hand first in a production for feature film Ada Apa Dengan Cinta? (AADC) as a propman and onion cutter.

After that, he jumped into television and filmmaking mainly as a screenwriter, for such variety shows like Extravaganza to feature films such as Habibie & Ainun and Sultan Agung. This profession took him to join the residency program, two of which are ASEAN in Residence, held by the Ministry of Culture of Thailand, and Kyoto Filmmakers Lab in Kyoto. Both in 2014.

Since 2017, he serves as the Coordinator Program for kineforum, an alternative film space, operating under the Film Committee of Jakarta Arts Council (DKJ). Until now, he still manages the kineforum program and writes screenplays and teleplays. Currently, he is a Senior Development of Skriptura, Visinema’s creative and writing division.

Evi Cecilia is a Chinese-Indonesian producer amplifying personal and marginalized voices through film. She has produced original series for Vidio since 2022 and is now developing her first feature, which has been selected for international labs and markets including Jakarta Film Week Producer’s Lab, Platform Busan, and Indonesia-France Film Lab.