Today, Indonesia celebrates its National Film Day. On March 30, 1950, legendary Indonesian filmmaker Usmar Ismail directed the country’s first full-length feature film produced by a national company. To mark this special occasion, this week’s #UWRF22 Highlight Session will bring you our Main Program discussion called “From Book to Screen”. Adapting a book into screen can be a delicate process. Authors might take too much control in the process, and fans might be disappointed by the screen adaptation’s end result. Listen to US-based Singaporean novelist, Kirstin Chen, as well as Indonesian writer, Ahmad Fuadi, and film director, Kamila Andini, as they discuss this issue with interviewer Julia Winterflood. Both Chen and Fuadi have had their books adapted into a TV series and a film respectively, whilst Andini has directed a screen adaptation of a novel.
