'Mencari Pelangi' sweeps awards at Festival Sinetron
JAKARTA (JP): The television drama Mencari Pelangi surprisingly swept seven awards, beating comedy serial Mat Angin, which only managed to grab six awards at the Festival Sinetron Indonesia on Sunday.
Mencari Pelangi, a drama produced by PT Iguana Imagi Media and aired on ANteve, won the Vidia Utama trophy -- presented by the Ministry of Information's Director General for Radio, Television and Film Aziz Hussein -- given to the best teleseries (miniseries and melodramas) of the year.
In his speech, Aziz urged those in the teleseries industry to improve quality in the face of stiff competition from foreign productions.
Mencari Pelangi won awards in the drama category for best teleseries, director, sound, artistic arrangement, scriptwriter, editing and cinematography.
Mat Angin, a comedy series about a poor Betawi man, his panicky wife and their neighbors, collected six awards, second most on the night. It had received 12 nominations. The series received awards in the comedy serial category for best director, teleseries, supporting actor, editing, playwright and cinematography; the comedy won 11 awards last year.
Comedy series Angkot Haji Imron came third with five awards, for best actress, sound, music arrangement, artistic arrangement and scriptwriter.
51 awards
Fifty-one awards were given out in the star-studded festival held at TVRI's auditorium, a location selected to avoid any show of extravagance during the crisis.
Attendants of the festival, in which the masters of ceremony were comedy actress Debby Sahertian and fashion designer Robby Tumewu, were entertained among others by singers AB Three, Yuni Shara, Puput Novel and others.
Renny Djayusman and Roy Marten were named as best actor and actress in a drama series for their roles in Cermin and Kupu-Kupu Kertas respectively.
In the category for dramatic films, rock singer Bangun Sugito won the award for best actor for his role in RCTI's Buku Catatanku, and Ninik L. Karim won the award for best actress in the same category, for her role as a mother-in-law in Dalam Bayangan Ibu.
In the comedy series, Nona Alkhar, star of SCTV's Angkot Haji Imron II, won the award for best actress, while Jaja Miharja won for best actor for his role in Satu Atap Seribu Wajah.
Best supporting actor in a comedy series was won by Yadi Timo for his role in Mat Angin and best supporting actress in the same category was won by Yurike Prastica for her role in Fatima.
Best supporting actor in a drama series was grabbed by Chairil JM from Tutur Tinular and the best supporting actress was Cini Gunawan for her role in Serpihan Mutiara Retak.
Industry veteran Eeng Saptohadi won best supporting actor in a dramatic film for his role in Kado Istimewa, while Dian Fahrina won best supporting actress in the same category for her role in Senja Kesaksian.
The festival also selected Tersanjung as viewers' favorite drama series. The Chaidir Rahman trophy was awarded to teleseries critic Christantiowati for her review of TV dramas in Citra tabloid.
In the non-documentary category, ANteve's Family 100 won the award in the quiz show category, and Debat Terbuka for talk shows. Aikon received the award for best educative/informative show and RCTI's Profil Taman Nasional Wasur won the culture/tourism show category. SCTV's Dunia Bintang was named as the best infotainment show. The Vidia special award for television stations airing the most Indonesian teleseries was given to private TV station ANteve. (ste)