Directed by

Azalia Muchransyah

Country of Origin

Indonesia

Runtime

1:00

Accompanied by a mix of soundscapes and music, Concrete Jungle juxtaposes different living creatures with manmade architectures. It is a reimagination of how nature should reclaim its rightful place amidst the busy and deafening city life.

Director Biography – Azalia Muchransyah

Azalia Muchransyah is a filmmaker, writer, and scholar from Indonesia who is pursuing a Ph.D. in Media Study at University at Buffalo (SUNY). She receives the 2017 DIKTI-Funded Fulbright Ph.D. Scholarship. She is a 2019-2021 Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) Scholar, 2019 Social Impact Fellow at University at Buffalo (SUNY), and a 2019 Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival Diversity Scholar at Ithaca College. Her area of interest is affordances of activism and advocacy in media ecology, specifically in Indonesian prison settings. Her short films have been officially selected and screened in international festivals and academic conferences.