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Agus Purwanto

After graduating with a degree in Javanese Language and Literature from Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 2000, Agus Purwanto has been active in the field of audio-visual art.

From 2003 until now he has been employed as a stringer and cameraman with the news service APTN (Associated Press Television News) for the Yogyakarta region. He has directed video reports and documentaries for NGOs like Save the Children, Plan-International, and IOM-Yogyakarta. Agus has also conceived and taught several community-based participatory video workshops for children, secondary and tertiary students, lecturers and community activists. Major participatory video workshop have been organised in cooperation with SKP-KAM (Diocese Merauke Sekretariat for Humanitarianism and Peace), Plan International, the Yogyakarta Film Festival, student organisations and local community groups in Yogyakarta.

Agus directed the documentary 'Wish me Luck!" which won the best film award at the Documentary Film Festival Yogyakarta Moviebox in 2010. Other films include "Reportage of UNICEF Ambassador's visit into Merapi's Refugees in Klaten Central Java" with UNICEF Indonesia in 2010 as Camera-Person; "Survival of Javanese Furniture" with CIFOR in 2010 as Line Producer; and "Berani Hidup" with Sorot Media in 2008 as Producer.

VIDEOGRAPHY

2013 | Director - Title: The Java Spirit: Religion and Spirituality in Contemporary Indonesia | Institution: Prof Thomas Reuter, University of Melbourne

2012 | Cameraman - Title: Bersama-sama Menuju Indonesia Hijau (Together toward a Greener Indonesia) | Institution: Indonesia Ministry of the Environment

2012 | Cameraman - Title: Renewable Energy: Best Practises of Rural People in Indonesia | Institution: Wilderness Conservation Society, Bogor West Java, Indonesia

2011 | Director - Title: Experiences from Indonesia: Community-Based Disaster Risk Management | Institution: International Organisation for Migration (IOM) Yogyakarta, Indonesia Country Office

2010 | Cameraman - Title: Reportage of UNICEF Ambassador's Visit with Merapi Refugees in Klaten Central Java | Institution: UNICEF Indonesia

2010 | Line Producer - Title: Survival of Javanese Furniture | Institution: CIFOR (Central for International Forestry Research) Indonesia

2010 | Director, Producer - Title: Wish me luck! | Institution: Belajar & Berbuat, Best Film of Moviebox Documentary Film Festival, 2010

2008 | Producer - Title: Berani Hidup (Dare to Live) | Institution: Sorot Media Yogyakarta

2008 | Director - Title: The Director | Institution: Sorot Media, Plan Indonesia, Yogya

2007 | Director - Title: Braving the Future | Institution: Sorot Media, Plan Indonesia, Yogya

2007 | Producer - Title: Generasi Jempol / The Finger Top Generation | Institution: Sorot Media – Leiden University, Holland

2006 | Cameraman - Title: Tetesan Air Mata Utang (Tear Drops of Debt) | Institution: Etnoreflika – INFID

2005 | Director - Title: Manual of Positive Deviance Approach | Institution: Etnoreflika –Save the Children, USA

2003 | Director - Title: The Smokers Paradise | Institution: Sorot Media – Medical faculty, UGM

Filmography

JAVA SPIRIT, THE: Religious Diversity in Indonesia »

The Java Spirit is an exploration of changing attitudes to religion and spirituality in Java, Indonesia. Java is home to a diverse array of spiritual traditions, influenced by all the world religions but building also on its own unique heritage...