Olivia Griselda

Olivia Griselda

History

Olivia Griselda is a Singapore-based, Indonesia-born writer-director. She most recently directed “Rite of Passage”, an experimental dance short film that was shot as part of Cinemovement Laboratory 6: Solo in Indonesia. The film is an official selection of Athens International Film and Video Festival 2021 (an Oscar-qualifying film festival), Asian Film Archive’s Singapore Shorts 2021, San Francisco Dance Film Festival 2021, and Minikino Film Week’s Bali International Short Film Festival 2021. She directed, wrote, and produced the romantic comedy short film “Just Because We’re Friends”, which was featured in Minikino Film Week’s Bali International Short Film Festival 2019 and Bakunawa Cinema of the Young 2021 (Philippines). She’s currently co-directing the animated comedy short film “She and Her Good Vibrations” with animation filmmaker Sarah Cheok. The project was successfully crowdfunded through Kickstarter and raised more than SGD 12,000. It won the Best Pitch Award on the Animated Visions Story Development Lab 2020 organised by *SCAPE and Cartoons Underground. The short film is slated for completion at the end of 2022.

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Olivia Griselda

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Panggilan Terakhir
Panggilan Terakhir
Producer
Nadia, who is in her 40s, is a new airport ground staff. In her first week on the job, she must deal with a stubborn elderly passenger who arrives late for check-in and insists on travelling to attend his daughter’s wedding.
Rite of Passage
Rite of Passage
Colorist
A man enters a passage and must choose to embrace either the persistence of time or the will of nature. Through improvised movement and choreography, this short film is a playful meditation on the body, space, and the present moment. The film was shot as part of Cinemovement Laboratory VI: Solo in Studio Plesungan, an art space run by Indonesian artist Melati Suryodarmo in the northern part of Solo, Indonesia.
Rite of Passage
Rite of Passage
Editor
A man enters a passage and must choose to embrace either the persistence of time or the will of nature. Through improvised movement and choreography, this short film is a playful meditation on the body, space, and the present moment. The film was shot as part of Cinemovement Laboratory VI: Solo in Studio Plesungan, an art space run by Indonesian artist Melati Suryodarmo in the northern part of Solo, Indonesia.
Rite of Passage
Rite of Passage
Director
A man enters a passage and must choose to embrace either the persistence of time or the will of nature. Through improvised movement and choreography, this short film is a playful meditation on the body, space, and the present moment. The film was shot as part of Cinemovement Laboratory VI: Solo in Studio Plesungan, an art space run by Indonesian artist Melati Suryodarmo in the northern part of Solo, Indonesia.
Just Because We're Friends
Just Because We're Friends
Director
One night, a young woman initiates sex with her prudish male best friend in the hope of starting romance. But things become complicated, putting their friendship at risk. Can love come after sex? Or must love come first before sex?