Creative Process of Bulikan the Movie

Abstract

Nowadays, as time goes by, many younger generations lack in knowing the history of Indonesian Chinese (Tionghoa) life in the past. As an alternative solution to respond to this problem, a short film was made with one of the main objectives as a means of information and education to broaden the horizons of the wider communi-ty, including the younger generation in Indonesia. "Bulikan" which means, "going home" in Banjar Samarinda language is a short film that tells about the discrimination felt by a Chinese - Hokchia ethnic family in Samarinda, during the New Order. This film was inspired by the author's father family. Therefore, the process of collecting data for making this film is mostly obtained from the interview process and archives of old photographs of the author's family. The process of making the "Bulikan" film which takes about eight months (pre-pro-duction - production - post-production), produced a 20-minute film with the drama genre. From the process of making this film, although not easy, the writer as a director learns to direct all the crew and players to be able to achieve the expected vision regardless of the various obstacles faced.

 Keywords: Tionghoa, New Order, Hokchia, Drama