‘Ghost Island’, ‘A Life Full Of Holes’ Lead Awards At JAFF Future Project
Park Kiyong’s Ghost Island, Loeloe Hendra Komara’s A Life Full Of Holes and Netanya Yemina’s To My Dearest, My Dear... were all multiple award winners at the close of JAFF Future Project (November 30-December 1) on Monday night.
Ghost Island, produced by Ho Yuhang, picked up the Kongchak Award, which includes in-kind sound design worth $10,000 from Cambodia’s Kongchak; the Prodigihouse Ecosystem Award for editing services; and one of two cash awards worth $3,000 from Indonesia’s Visinema. The project, which marks the return of former Korean Film Council head Park to directing, tells the story of an Indonesian woman whose husband goes missing during their honeymoon in Korea.
A Life Full Of Holes took the The United Team of Art (Tuta Films) Award worth $6,000 and one of two in-kind Brandlink Indonesia Awards. Produced by Indra Yudhitya and Dewi Umaya, the project revolves around a teenager and her siblings in East Java who are forced to fend for themselves when their mother leaves to work as a migrant worker in Taiwan and their father abandons them.
To My Dearest, My Dear... took a Visinema Award worth $3,000 and a Brandlink Indonesia Award. The Doa Ibu Frameworks production is a fantasy drama about a soon-to-be father with terminal cancer who travels in time to meet the daughter he won’t live to see.
Meanwhile, the White Light Award went to Rose Pandawangi, about an Indonesian factory worker in 1950s Amsterdam, to be directed by Razka Robby Ertanto and produced by Chelsea Islan and the Philippines’ Kristine De Leon.
The Prodigihouse Ecosystem Award for colour grading services went to Our Son, directed by Luhki Herwanayogi and produced by Iqbal Mohammad Hamdan, which also picked up one of two Motion Picture Association (MPA) Awards. The other MPA award went to Eddie Cahyono’s My Mother, produced by Tika Bravani and Isabelle Glachant.
An additional two prizes were awarded by MTN International Facilitation to send two projects overseas in 2026: Evil Underground to Rotterdam Lab and A Life Full Of Holes to Hong Kong Asian Film Financing Forum.
Two pieces of IP, both comics, were selected to participate in Busan’s Asian Content and Film Market (ACFM) in 2026 – Elang Hitam, created by Edwin Fernando Tranggono, and World Without Sleep from Ferdian Feisal.
JAFF Future Project selected ten projects from 107 submissions, which went through three days of meetings and targeted industry networking during JAFF Market. The event’s selection committee comprised leading Indonesian producers and filmmakers Ernest Prakasa, Fauzan Zidni and Tia Hasibun.
JAFF Market director Linda Gozali announced that the market hosted 116 exhibitors; attracted 7,784 visitors over three days; generated $2.6m in business deals, and had a total national economic impact of $7.8m, more than three times the impact of last year’s JAFF Market.
