Bedindang Bedibuay Film, Reflection On The Role Of Women In Culture Space

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TANJUNG CELLOR - Kemendikbudristek RI through the Directorate of Film, Music and Media, namely Indonesiana.TV held an open call for the screen of the 2023 Indonesian women's story (LCPI) some time ago.

This activity is a fictional short film competition in the form of a story idea proposal that is curated in order to get direct funding from the state to produce short fiction films.

Hundreds of filmmakers from all over Indonesia, fighting is the best for their proposals to be selected. After the curation process involving professional curators to assess each project, 18 story ideas were selected from various cultures in Indonesia.

One of the selected is the story idea from the city of Tarakan, North Kalimantan (Kaltara). Namely, the film Bedindang Bedibuay by Rohil Fidiawan and Taufan Agustiyan Prakoso.

Open call layar cerita perempuan ini konsen di isu kebudayaan yang mengepankan art oral oleh perempuan dan terjaring dari 10 kategori Olah Pelesaris Kebudayaan (OPK).

Rohil Fidiawan, the producer of the film, assessed that Bedindang Bedibuay has a meaning in the prayers and hopes of the kindness of parents to children in the future.

"This film will be special for the people of North Kalimantan. universally, Bedindang Bedibuay is strong about the elements of art and Islamic law in a simple way with the lyrics of prayer contained," he said, Thursday (28/9/2023).

Growing up and growing up in the community of Tidung and Bulungan, he felt the strongness of the people of Kaltara in the cultural element of speech and storytelling. This is a reflection of the producer's memory when he was a child.

"It's not just verbal speech and sleep delivery for children, Bedindang Bedibuay is a simple way for Tidung's parents to have good hopes for their children in the future," he explained.

He added that the Producer and Director of Bedindang Bedibuay had just completed technical guidance (Bimtek) which was carried out in Jakarta on 18 other films, (20-23/9/2023) ago. This is related to the completeness of the administration regarding film licensing, film censorship institutions, and the establishment of scenarios involving Indonesia's mainstay curators.

This activity was also attended and opened directly by the Secretary of the Director General of Culture, Kemendikbudristek RI, Fitra Arda.

"We have just implemented technical guidance, this is related to the orderly rules for filming in Indonesia today. Starting from licensing to censorship institutions according to the age category of audience segmentation in films," he said.

"We also present the best curator of Indonesia. There is Script Development material from the famous writer Visinema Picture, M. Irfan Ramli, then continued with Film Directing material by the chairman of the IFDC association or the chairman of the director association throughout Indonesia, Agung Sentuasa, the head of ADN (Public Documentary Association Nusantara), Tonny Trimarsanto, then there is Mr. Agus Makkie, and Mr. Lianto Luseno," he added.

He continued, this film adapts the background story of the original artist in the city of Tarakan, Usman Najrid Maulana. When the conflict returns from an art school graduate to his hometown, faced with the challenge of continuing his work.

"This is a very simple story of the Tidung fishermen, which is inspired by the artist Usman. Set in the family of the Tidung fishermen, involves a group of women from the Tidung tribe who have a bachelor's degree in art," he said.

The plan is that this film will be produced in the second week of October 2023. Rohil said that he would involve dozens of crew and appearances of Usman Najrid Maulana's Ina-ina Nurjalin group from Paguntengara Artploration.

"From the timeline, the shooting will be held next month. Hopefully, it will not miss the schedule," he said.

In addition, Bedindang Bedibuay Film Director, Taufan Agustiyan, said the story about Bedindang Bedibuay could not be separated from his journey while working on a documentary and exploring more than half of the archipelago.

"My journey as a documentary film director, met a variety of cultural arts, both attractive, decorative, and narrative. There are several similarities between cultural ethnicities in Indonesia, one of which is art, whether in the form of engineering, macopat, fairy tales, and various other forms and having strong and philosophical messages as a guide for community values," he added.

According to Taufan, Bedindang Bedibuay is the art of the Tidung tribe that caught his attention. This is because the engineering that is sung to put children to sleep is an effort to "slip" ancestral values into the minds of children.

"With the hope of absorbing into the mind, and becoming an important part of character education for the child," he said.

According to Taufan, this film will talk about how Tidung women take on an important role for the cultural space, not just support the family's economy.

"Women have a unique way to continue to preserve tradition. Tells me a modern and progressive woman to take me home and build people's culture," she concluded.