Gina S. Noer
Gina S. Noer (born 24 August 1985) is an Indonesian screenwriter, film director, producer, and author. She co-founded the production company Wahana Kreator Nusantara. She made Indonesian film history by winning both Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay in the same year at the Indonesian Film Festival for Cemara’s Family and Two Blue Stripes.
Noer started her career in 2004 with the short film Ladies Room. Her first feature was Foto, Kotak Jendela (2006), directed by Angga Dwimas Sasongko. In 2008, she and her husband Salman Aristo adapted Habiburrahman El Shirazy’s best-selling novel Verses of Love into a film of the same name, directed by Hanung Bramantyo.
She received her first Citra Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Perempuan Berkalung Sorban at the 2009 Indonesian Film Festival. Together with Ifan A. Ismail, Noer adapted the memoir Habibie & Ainun into a film, for which they won the Citra Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2013 festival. In 2015, she wrote a book about Habibie’s early life, Rudy, Kisah Masa Muda Sang Visioner, which was adapted into the feature film Rudy Habibie a year later, for which she also wrote the screenplay.
In 2019, Noer made her directorial debut with the teen drama Two Blue Stripes and also produced Cemara’s Family, which earned a Best Picture nomination. At the same Indonesian Film Festival, she became the first person to win both Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay in the same year, thanks to the two films.
In 2021, she directed, produced, and wrote First, Second & Third Love, which closed the 16th Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival. Her third feature, Like & Share, was released in Indonesian cinemas on 8 December 2022 and was shown at several film festivals, including Rotterdam, South by Southwest, and the Adelaide Film Festival.
The sequel to Two Blue Stripes, Two Blue Hearts, came out in 2024 with Aisha Nurra Datau replacing Adhisty Zara in the role of Dara. In May 2024, it was announced that Noer would direct a biographical film about Ki Hajar Dewantara, a pioneer of education for native Indonesians during the Dutch colonial era.
Noer was born in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, and studied at the University of Indonesia. She is married to Salman Aristo since 2006.
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