Specializing in exploring the intersections of religiosity, gender, and race.
Cedric Christophorus is an LA-based Indonesian writer-director with experiences in narrative shorts, stage, and animation. He’s a passionate variety champion who thrives in collaborative environments fostering high-level storytelling, with a give attention to exploring the intersections of religiosity, gender, and race.
He’s presently working at one of many main black-owned manufacturing firms in the USA, Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY, in addition to independently distributing social content material and quick movies via @cinemainclusion, the place he goals to champion high quality movies, spotlight the underrepresented, and make filmmaking schooling accessible.
His narrative work has obtained nominations from the Nationwide Academy of Tv Arts and Sciences Michigan Chapter (for ‘To Him’), earned quarter-finalist and semi-finalist accolades within the Pupil World Influence Movie Pageant (for ‘To Him’) and Pupil Los Angeles Movie Awards (for ‘To Him’), in addition to garnered worldwide recognition from the Serbest Worldwide Movie Awards (for ‘Slumber Social gathering’) and the Indonesian Ministry of Training and Tradition (for ‘Ruang Publik’). Different notable alternatives embrace the Central Michigan Worldwide Movie Pageant, Centrally Remoted Movie Pageant, Capital Metropolis Movie Pageant, Trinity Movie Pageant, and Yale Movie Pageant.
Cedric Christophorus on his Movies and Works
As a world immigrant, there may be typically strain to succeed and transcend resulting from visa pressures and inside struggles. We now have to undergo the arduous means of making use of for various kinds of visas simply to remain and work within the States and to show to ourselves consistently that we’re value it. It is positively laborious, however on the identical time, we’re given the push to go 200% on each undertaking that we work on.
Two of the narrative movies that I’m most happy with are titled “Icing on Her Cake” and “To Him,” each of which I wrote and directed. “Icing on Her Cake” is presently in post-production and tells the story of a reserved Southeast Asian who tries to grasp the lifetime of her “American” housemate via their shared groceries, sticky notes, and voicemails. My collaborator, Victoria Gunawan, and I are actually impressed to create tales that matter to each our Asian neighborhood again residence and our Asian-American communities right here within the States – it is a love letter that we hope bridge these completely different communities! We’re actually excited to share this movie throughout our 2024 competition run and hope that it speaks to many individuals.
“To Him,” then again, is the primary queer love story that I wrote and directed. Whereas the story itself is crafted in a approach that makes it digestible to all individuals, it was monumental on the time as a result of we premiered at a conservative Christian liberal arts school the place I studied. We needed to point out those that queer narratives ought to be normalized and will thrive in these settings.
Except for narrative work, I additionally directed and produced stage productions that garnered 3000+ reside audiences again in early 2023 and 2020. I used to be given an opportunity to signify my nation by making a 7-minute stage manufacturing in a cross-cultural showcase occasion, supported by the Consulate Common of the Republic of Indonesia in Chicago. Representing Indonesia, we instructed a narrative via dance and lightweight; every phase showcases Indonesian pure magnificence, represented via the 4 parts of nature. These parts (water, air, earth, hearth) are personified via Indonesian deities with different dancers as supporting parts. Test it out:
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