Ifa Isfansyah was born in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 1979. He graduated from the Television Department of Indonesian Institute of Art Jogjakarta. He was selected by the Asian Film Academy Busan in 2006 and got a scholarship to attend the Im Kwon Taek College of Film & Performing Arts, Republic of Korea. He directed films including The Dancer (2011) and was awarded Best Director and Best Picture at the Indonesian Film Festival. Since then he has produced Siti (Eddie Cahyono, Telluride 2015), Turah (Wicaksono Wisnu LEGOWO, Indonesian Official Entry for 2018 Academy Awards), The Seen and Unseen (Kamila Andini, Grandprix, 2018 Berlinale Generation Kplus) and Memories of My Body (Garin Nugroho, Venice Orizzonti 2018). He co-produced The Seen and Unseen (2017). The Seen and Unseen also won Best Youth Feature Film at the 2017 Asia Pacific Screen Awards and Memories of My Body won Cultural Diversity Award under the patronage of UNESCO at the 2018 Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and emerging. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
