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Hi, my name is Rio Johan. I was born and raised in a small conservative Muslim small town in Indonesia called Baturaja, South Sumatra.
I am a writer in Indonesia, I've published 6 books (in Indonesian). In France, I studied cinema at the École Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle (ESRA) in Paris. I took directing for my study. I completed my study last year, and now I'm trying to do my projects.
After 6 years of not setting my foot in my home country, I went back there in April, 2024, for the whole month. I visited my hometown. There, I grew up in a shop-house: there were two shops on the ground floor, and we lived on the upper stories. One of the shops has been rented by a hair salon, a transgender hair salon to be precise, since I was still in kindergarten, and it's still there the moment that I came back in April. In Indonesia, especially in the more conservative parts of the country such as my hometown, being transgenders is not really accepted by the society, except in a hair salon -- one of the very few places reserved for them, as well as one of the very few places in which society would find it ok for them to earn a living.
During my visit, I met the people in the hair salon, I talked to them -- now that I'd been more free and accepting of myself and my sexuality (I am gay), I also felt more at ease discussing important and deep topics with them, listening to their struggles in life, to how they survive day by day in an environment that does not always accept their identity, their dreams, their hopes, what they could have done and achieved in life had their surroundings been more accepting, as well as their friendships, their interactions with each other and also with people coming to the salon to get their hair cut...
And so I decided (and asked their permission) to record a short documentary of their life in the hair salon in one day.
As this documentary was done rather impromptu, and I didn't have much shooting equipment (there was no rental for shooting equipment in this small town), I decided to record it just using my iPhone 15 Pro Max, which I thought would be enough to capture good quality images.
However, I would like the project to have a proper post-production, with proper people who understand editing, sound editing, mixing, and color-grading more than me. And it is for this reason that I create this GoFundMe Fundraiser.
Here's the rough calculation I made for this funding (I used the average price in Paris I found on the internet):
Image Editing (3-4 days) : 1600 euros
Sound & Mixing (3-4 days) : 1600 euros
Color grading (2 days): 800 euros
Finishing (2 day): 800 euros
Studio Renting: (10 days x 200) = 2000 euros
Miscelaneous (lunch for crew, urgent, festival fees, etc): 2200 euros
TOTAL: 9000 euros
The anticipated duration of this short documentary is between 40 to 50 minutes.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.
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[Français]
Salut, je m'appelle Rio Johan. Je suis né et j'ai grandi dans une petite ville musulmane conservatrice d'Indonésie appelée Baturaja, dans le sud de Sumatra.
Je suis écrivain en Indonésie, j'ai publié 6 livres (en indonésien). En France, j'ai étudié le cinéma à l'École Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle (ESRA) à Paris. J'ai pris la réalisation pour mes études. J'ai terminé mes études l'année dernière et maintenant j'essaie de réaliser mes projets.
Après 6 ans sans mettre les pieds dans mon pays d’origine, j’y suis retourné en avril 2024, pour un mois. J'ai visité ma ville natale pendant mon voyage. Dans cette ville, j'ai grandi dans un shop-house: il y avait deux magasins au rez-de-chaussée et nous vivions au dessus. L'une des boutiques est louée par un salon de coiffure, celui qui est géré par des transgenres, depuis que j'étais encore à la maternelle, et le salon est toujours là au moment où je suis revenue en avril. En Indonésie, surtout dans les régions les plus conservatrices du pays comme ma ville natale, être transgenre n'est pas vraiment accepté par la société, sauf dans un salon de coiffure -- l'un des rares endroits qui leur sont réservés, ainsi que l'un des les très rares endroits où la société trouverait acceptable qu'elles gagnent leur vie.
Lors de ma visite, j'ai rencontré les transgenres du salon de coiffure, je leur ai parlé -- maintenant que je m'accepte plus ma sexualité (je suis gay), je me sentais aussi plus à l'aise pour discuter des sujets importantes et profondes avec elles, en écoutant leurs luttes dans la vie, comment elles survivent de jour en jour dans un environnement qui n'accepte pas toujours leur identité, leurs rêves, leurs espoirs, ce qu'elles auraient pu faire et réaliser dans la vie si leur environnement avait été beaucoup plus sympathique envers elles, ainsi que leurs amitiés, leurs interactions entre elles, et aussi avec les personnes venant au salon se faire couper les cheveux...
J’ai donc décidé (et demandé leur permission) d’enregistrer un court documentaire sur leur vie dans le salon de coiffure en une journée.
Comme ce documentaire a été réalisé de manière plutôt improvisée et que je n'avais pas beaucoup de matériel de tournage (il n'y avait pas de place pour louer du matériel de tournage dans la petite ville), j'ai décidé de l'enregistrer uniquement avec mon iPhone 15 Pro Max, ce qui me semblait suffisant pour capturer images de bonne qualité.
Cependant, j'aimerais que le projet ait une post-production appropriée, avec des personnes compétentes qui comprennent mieux que moi le montage, le montage sonore, le mixage et l'étalonnage. Et c'est pour cette raison que je crée cette collecte de fonds GoFundMe.
Voici le calcul approximatif que j'ai fait pour ce financement (j'ai utilisé le prix moyen trouvé sur internet) :
Montage d'images (3-4 jours) : 1600 euros
Son & Mixage (3-4 jours) : 1600 euros
Etalonnage (2 jours) : 800 euros
Finition (2 journée) : 800 euros
Location Studio : (10 jours x 200) = 2000 euros
Divers (déjeuner de l'équipage, projections et festivals, etc) : 2000 euros
TOTAL : 9000 euros
La durée prévue de ce court documentaire est comprise entre 40 et 50 minutes.
Toute aide est grandement appréciée. Merci beaucoup.
***
Some raw screenshots from the shootings / Quelques captures d'écran brutes des tournages :
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