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Dian Sastrowardoyo


Diandra Paramitha Sastrowardoyo (born in Jakarta, 16 March 1982) is well known as Dian Sastrowardoyo or Dian Sastro, is one of famous leading Indonesian actress. Not only renown in Indonesia but also in neighbor countries. Starting her career as a model in teen magazine Gadis (1996), she’s considered as an icon of the raising of Indonesian film industry. She has received local and international awards.

Her first movie entitled ‘Bintang Jatuh’ (2000) or ‘Fallen Star’, directed by now-famous director Rudi Sujarwo, was not too hit the market. The next film in 2001, ‘Pasir Berbisik’ or ‘Whispering Sands’ brought her name into eminence. In Nan T. Achnas’ hand (Indonesian woman director), Dian encountered acting with senior actress and actor Christine Hakim (Asian Heroine – Times Magazine version) and Slamet Rahardjo. Through this film, Dian was awarded international awards: Best Female Actress at Singapore Film Festival (2002) and Asia Film Festival in Deauville, France (2002). Besides many local awards, in 2005 she bagged Most Promising and Talented Young Actress at Asia Pacific Film Festival.

The undergraduate literature student of University of Indonesia then continue soars in film industry when a brand new teen flick film ‘Ada Apa Dengan Cinta’ or ‘What’s With Love’ (2002) released the following year and the rest is history. ‘What’s With Love’ is a teen film that made a big hit not only nationwide but also internationally. It reached over 2 million viewers, and broke the sales record at the time. It became the milestone of the next Indonesian teen movies, though sad ending in teen love story was still a new thing in Indonesian films.

‘What’s With Love’ also reached huge popularity in Malaysia; it was also broadcasted in Australian and Korean TV. On April 2005 the film was released at cinemas in Japan and it received big attention from the public especially Japanese youths. ‘What’s With Love’ then republished in a form of Japanese novel titled ‘Beautiful Days’. They released the movie in DVD format as well. And thanks to Japan, they also made special website for this movie in Japanese version: http://www.beautifuldays.jp/top.html




Interview in Tokyo
http://www.cinemacafe.net/interview/bn/bn_0503.phtml

Filmografi
· 2000: Bintang Jatuh (Falling Star)
· 2001: Pasir Berbisik (Whispering Sands)
· 2002: Ada Apa dengan Cinta? (What’s With Love)
· 2003: Arisan! (The Gathering)
· 2004: Puteri Gunung Ledang (The Princess of Mount Ledang)
· 2005: Banyu Biru (Blue Banyu)
· 2005: Ungu Violet (Purple Violet)
· 2005: Belahan Jiwa (Soulmate)
· 2006: Dunia Tanpa Koma (A World Without Coma)
Awards
· 1996: Winner of Cover Girl Gadis Magazine contest
· 2002: Lux Soap exclusive model 2002 from JWT AdForce-Unilever
· 2002:
o March – Best Actress Asia Film Festival Deauville, France for film ‘Pasir Berbisik’/’Whispering Sands’
o April – Best Actress at 15th Singapore International Film Festival for film ‘Pasir Berbisik’/’Whispering Sands’
· 2004: Best Actress at Indonesia Film Festival 2004 for film ‘Ada Apa Dengan Cinta’/’What’s With Love’
· 2005: Most Favorite Actress MTV Indonesia Movie Awards for film ‘Ungu Violet’/’Purple Violet’
· 2005: Most Promising and Talented Young Actress at Asia Pacific Film Festival, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for film ‘Ungu Violet’/’Purple Violet’

[furansizuka]

Dian Sastrowardoyo


Diandra Paramitha Sastrowardoyo (born in Jakarta, 16 March 1982) is well known as Dian Sastrowardoyo or Dian Sastro, is one of famous leading Indonesian actress. Not only renown in Indonesia but also in neighbor countries. Starting her career as a model in teen magazine Gadis (1996), she’s considered as an icon of the raising of Indonesian film industry. She has received local and international awards.

Her first movie entitled ‘Bintang Jatuh’ (2000) or ‘Fallen Star’, directed by now-famous director Rudi Sujarwo, was not too hit the market. The next film in 2001, ‘Pasir Berbisik’ or ‘Whispering Sands’ brought her name into eminence. In Nan T. Achnas’ hand (Indonesian woman director), Dian encountered acting with senior actress and actor Christine Hakim (Asian Heroine – Times Magazine version) and Slamet Rahardjo. Through this film, Dian was awarded international awards: Best Female Actress at Singapore Film Festival (2002) and Asia Film Festival in Deauville, France (2002). Besides many local awards, in 2005 she bagged Most Promising and Talented Young Actress at Asia Pacific Film Festival.

The undergraduate literature student of University of Indonesia then continue soars in film industry when a brand new teen flick film ‘Ada Apa Dengan Cinta’ or ‘What’s With Love’ (2002) released the following year and the rest is history. ‘What’s With Love’ is a teen film that made a big hit not only nationwide but also internationally. It reached over 2 million viewers, and broke the sales record at the time. It became the milestone of the next Indonesian teen movies, though sad ending in teen love story was still a new thing in Indonesian films.

‘What’s With Love’ also reached huge popularity in Malaysia; it was also broadcasted in Australian and Korean TV. On April 2005 the film was released at cinemas in Japan and it received big attention from the public especially Japanese youths. ‘What’s With Love’ then republished in a form of Japanese novel titled ‘Beautiful Days’. They released the movie in DVD format as well. And thanks to Japan, they also made special website for this movie in Japanese version: http://www.beautifuldays.jp/top.html




Interview in Tokyo
http://www.cinemacafe.net/interview/bn/bn_0503.phtml

Filmografi
· 2000: Bintang Jatuh (Falling Star)
· 2001: Pasir Berbisik (Whispering Sands)
· 2002: Ada Apa dengan Cinta? (What’s With Love)
· 2003: Arisan! (The Gathering)
· 2004: Puteri Gunung Ledang (The Princess of Mount Ledang)
· 2005: Banyu Biru (Blue Banyu)
· 2005: Ungu Violet (Purple Violet)
· 2005: Belahan Jiwa (Soulmate)
· 2006: Dunia Tanpa Koma (A World Without Coma)
Awards
· 1996: Winner of Cover Girl Gadis Magazine contest
· 2002: Lux Soap exclusive model 2002 from JWT AdForce-Unilever
· 2002:
o March – Best Actress Asia Film Festival Deauville, France for film ‘Pasir Berbisik’/’Whispering Sands’
o April – Best Actress at 15th Singapore International Film Festival for film ‘Pasir Berbisik’/’Whispering Sands’
· 2004: Best Actress at Indonesia Film Festival 2004 for film ‘Ada Apa Dengan Cinta’/’What’s With Love’
· 2005: Most Favorite Actress MTV Indonesia Movie Awards for film ‘Ungu Violet’/’Purple Violet’
· 2005: Most Promising and Talented Young Actress at Asia Pacific Film Festival, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for film ‘Ungu Violet’/’Purple Violet’

‘What’s Up With Love?’ is novelized in Japan!

From www.indonesiaselebriti.com April 1, 2005

The reputation of ‘What’s With Love?’ seems hasn’t banished yet. Hitting big succeed in own country a few years ago, the popularity of the movie now reappearing, not in Indonesia but in Japan. By the Japan publishing company, Sony Magazine Inc., the film stared by Dian Sastro and Nicholas Saputra will be published in a novel titled “Beautiful Days".

"This has been so proud news. Here it is, our own country child’s design appreciated by the others, especially Japan. For all this time, we are “occupied” by Japanese manga. So it’s normal if we feel happy and proud,” said Diandra Sastrowardoyo or Dian Sastro.

For the first step, "Beautiful Days" will be printed 15 thousands exemplar with price 740 Yen or IDR 66,000. According to Dian, Sony was interested in making the novel of ‘What’s With Love?’ after the promotion of this movie few weeks ago in Japan.

"Not so long ago, I, Rudi Sudjarwo and Nicolas Saputra, were invited to Tokyo, Japan to promote this film. The Fumio Furuya Company bought the film to be run at 30 cinemas in 7 cities of Japan; they are Tokyo, Osaka, Sapporo, Nagoya, Kyoto, Fukuoka and Kobe," explained Dian.

For 6 days in Japan, she said she got many interesting experiences. One of them was when the press conference with Japanese media. They asked her whether the lifestyle of high school students in Jakarta was so glamour and they could drive cars to school.
"Being asked like that, I just could explain that the story of the movie is related to the middle class student in Jakarta. Not all-Indonesian students driving cars, only some of them,” said her.

Besides asking about teen lifestyle in our capital city, the press also asked some jokes and slang words in film ‘What’s With Love?’. "I can understand if they haven’t gotten our slang words. Hence something that we consider funny, but they don’t get it. Well perhaps that’s what happened if we have language and culture barrier. But overall we all were satisfied with the enthusiastic of Japanese youngster to watch this movie,” added her.

[Aranadhel]

Many thanks to furansizuka for the infos on Dian Sastro..