biography

Siska Raharja is born in 1986. Her bachelor degrees is Television Major, and she pursued Master of Art and Media Studies in UGM (Gadjah Mada University). Today she runs a production house named Elora Production. She’s also active in non-profit organization INDOARTNOW and has made almost 100 profile documentaries about visual artists from all over Indonesia. So far, Siska has produced television program about visual arts named Artline in Bloomberg TV Indonesia and three short film, “Lost Wonders” (dir.Loeloe Hendra) that competed in the Silversceen Award Singapore International Film Festival 2016, “Flowers in The Wall” (dir.Eden Junjung) that speaks about Human Rights through the story about Wiji Thukul. “Flowers In The Wall” became official selection in “Light of Asia” program by Jogja Asian Film Netpac 2016, Piala Maya 2016, International Competition Bogota Short Film Festival 2016 and International Competition Busan Short Film Festival 2017. She also produced new short film Tigu (Egg) dir. Loeloe Hendra in 2017.

company profile

Elora Production was founded in 2013 by Siska Raharja. The production house have produced contemporary visual art television programme for Bloomberg TV called ARTLINE. The program was created due to the lack of knowledge of most Indonesian about the contemporary visual art. Elora also collaborated with INDOARTNOW, a non profit organization and produced almost 100 documentaries about Indonesian artists. So far, Elora Productions have produced three short films. Among them are: LOST WONDERS (dir.Loeloe Hendra) which competed in Silver Screen Awards SGIFF 2016, Flowers In The Wall (dir.Eden Junjung) which became official selection in “Light of Asia” programme of Jogja NETPAC Asian Film Festival 2016, International Competition Bogota Short Film Festival 2016 and International Competition Busan Short Film Festival 2017. Lastly, we produced TIGU (dir.Loeloe Hendra) in 2017. We put our faith and fully support alternative films as an important part of creating cultural and political openness not only in Indonesia but also universally.