Billy Christian Films

Billy Christian born 9 December 1983. He grows with comic books, video games and animations. Billy’s interests in filmmaking start when he was 15 years old. He started to make short films and won some awards in local short film festivals in his young age. He entered Jakarta Institute of the Arts at 2002 and received full scholarship until he graduated in majoring film directing. He was worked as assistant director for several Indonesian directors and storyboard artist when he is in collage. He learns a lot the knowledge of filmmaking from being assistant directors. 

 

At 2004, his short film “Dear My Daughter” screened in 9th Pusan International Film Festival. Billy’s first debut in big screen is an omnibus horror movie titled “Hi5teria”, that is also screened in 16th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) 2012. At the same year Billy Christian’s  feature film “Blue Blood” project won IT PROJECT from Network of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF). The “Blue Blood” film project aim is to introduce local myth to the international world, and to show the next generation about preserve the local culture into something interesting.

 

Billy Directed and write some feature films; LGBT drama omnibus “Sanubari Jakarta” (2012), action comedy “The Legend of Trio Macan” (2014), teen drama “Sophie’s 7 Secret Missions” (2014),  an Indonesian myth horror “Tuyul part 1” (2015) and first Indonesian zombie flick “Zombie Village” (2015). Now he is making his sci-fi adventure feature film. Beside making feature films, Billy also works in film for television in Indonesia and some tv commercials.