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Minikino is an Indonesia’s short film festival organization with an international networking. The organization works throughout the year, arranging and organizing various forms of short film festivals and its supporting activities with their own sub-focus.

Short film festivals:


 * Monthly Screening & Discussion (Year Round Short Film Festival since 2002)
 * Open December (Annually since 2003)
 * Minikino Film Week, Bali International Short Film Festival (Annually since 2015)

Recurring Projects & Activities:


 * Indonesia Raja (National short programs exchange, annually since 2015)
 * S-Express (Regional Southeast Asia short programs exchange, annually since 2003)

Competitions:


 * Annual National Short Film competition as part of Minikino Film Week
 * Annual International Short Film competition as part of Minikino Film Week
 * Begadang Filmmaking Competition (since 2017) as part of the pre-festival of Minikino Film Week

History
Minikino was founded in 2002 by Tintin Wulia, Kiki Muchtar and Judith Guritno, in Bali, Indonesia. Since then, they have been working as a non-profit short film organization. The member of a committee consists of volunteering professionals, artists and film enthusiasts who works overtime to support the organization. The organization running cost is solely covered by private funding, sponsors, also occasional government’s funding as per-project basis. A lot of in-kind support also involved, supporting various organizational activities.

Minikino also works with other film festivals and short film programmers world wide by designing special programs of international or Indonesian short films, providing their audience with an opportunity to see and discuss about films they might never get to see otherwise. Minikino has also published and distributed several short film selections in electronic form, and organised film-related workshops.

Minikino believes that a short film, like a poem or short story, is a self-contained work with its own literary merit. A well-programmed selection of short films is a potent stimulant for discussion, which in turn will promote critical thinking.

THE FIRST SHORT FILM ORGANIZATION IN INDONESIA
Pulling itself out of the “indie films” frenzy and overly romanticism in Indonesia, Minikino decided to focus on the format and medium of storytelling rather than the potentially misleading spirit of “independency”.

With the pretext of making “independent” films, thousands of films – that happened to be short in duration – have been made in Indonesia since 1998, the year that was historically known as Indonesia’s era of reform. Little, however, was considered qualified enough to reach international audience.

The problem might be a quite simple: focusing on the spirit, Indonesian filmmakers are making “independent films”, not realizing the format of storytelling that they’re using. The result is a great number of feature-length-wanna-be masqueraded as short film. A cut version of a 'big' film. An unconscious imitation of the most popular format in Indonesia: TV soaps and then recently, web series. A lengthy, boring version of one idea, that could be simple and smart had it been treated the proper way.

Minikino feel sure that to break free from this circle, a focus first had to be decided and it is as simple as: Short Films. Minikino is the first organization in Indonesia to declare its focus on short films.

PROMOTING SHORT FILM CULTURE
The next problem lies in the first problem: people are not aware about the short film format. This came from lack of exposure to short film culture. Therefore Minikino focuses on creating a short film culture in Indonesia, by holding a regular screening and discussion of an international selection of short films. These screening and discussion of short films are attended by the filmmakers in whichever possible ways; including intercontinental online chats arranged directly after a screening.

Minikino believes that culture can only exist and develop with exchange, not isolation. Through Minikino’s screening and discussion, Minikino promotes exchange and networking amongst filmmakers and the audience. Some filmmaking groups have been established by filmmakers who met as audience in Minikino’s regular screening and discussion activities.

By distributing and encouraging people to see what other people are doing, Minikino ensures that the circle of creation can be elevated into a spiral, in which better and better work are continuously being created.