Nia Dinata
Nurkurniati Aisyah Dewi , better known as Nia Dinata, is an awardwinning Indonesian film director. Her movies are known for tackling subjects controversial or risky in Indonesia such as homosexuality, migrant workers, and polygamy.
Dinata was born Nurkurniati Aisyah Dewi in Jakarta onMarch 1970. As a child, Dinata watched movies weekly. After finishing high school, she received a bachelors degree in mass communications from Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, where she became interested in cinematography. She then took a filmmaking course at New York University. After returning to Indonesia, she took her first job as an apprentice reporter for Seputar Indonesia. She later began directing video clips and commercials with Iguana Productions in the mid1990s, studying the techniques on her own.
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