Natasha Dematra

Natasha Dematra is an Indonesian director, actress, singer, songwriter, editor, producer, public speaker and Ambassador for peace, Ambassador for human rights, Ambassador for tolerance, Ambassador for women, Ambassador for environment. She has received more than 100 awards from directing, acting, singing, producing, editing and for humanitarian work.

As a director, she began her directing career at the age of 11 where she was awarded the title 'The youngest female director in the world for a feature film' from Royal World Records and Museum Rekor Dunia-MURI (World Record Museum). She has directed four movies such as Mama, Aku Harus Pergi-2011, Tears of Ghost-2015, Dream-Post Production, Angel-Post Production. Natasha has received awards for her directing career such as Best Director for her movie (Tears Of Ghost-2015), Emerging Filmmaker Award, Best Under 18 Filmmaker. In April 2016, Natasha received the title Best First-Time Director from American Movie Awards which in 1982 gave an award to Steven Spielberg. With this award, Natasha broke the record as The First Asian Women to received that title. Meryl Streep and other Hollywood actors has received awards from that prestigious event.

As an actress, she is known for her leading roles in (Let's Play, Ghost-2013), (L4lupus-2010), (Dream Obama-2011), (I'm Star-2013), (Tears Of Ghost-2015) and (From Seoul To Jakarta-2015). Natasha has won several awards in her acting career such as Award of Excellence (Let's Play Ghost, Dream Obama, I'M Star) Gold Reel award for her role in (Let's Play, Ghost) and Platinum Award for her role in (L4Lupus) also Gold Award for her role in (Dream Obama), and another Gold Award for her role in (I'm Star) and nominee as Best Lead Actress from St. Tropez International Film Festival and Madrid International Film Festival, Italy International Film Festival for her role in (From Seoul To Jakarta). She also received awards for her role in (Tears Of Ghost) such as Best Actress in A Lead Role from International Independent Film Awards. Recently, Natasha just received the title of Best Actor Under 18 from Global Independent Film Awards. Until now, she has received 35 awards in her acting career.

As a singer, Natasha has received 39 awards for her song and music videos. She started recording her song since 2014 where she was given the opportunity to sing the soundtracks for her role in (From Seoul To Jakarta). Up to now she has recorded 50 songs in dual language. She has received 2 Bronze award for her song (Salute to Jokowi) and (One Love For All) from Global Music Award and won the 'Most Favorite Female Singer' and 'The Overall Most Favorite’ with almost 40.000 votes from around the world. She also received nomination from Utah Music Award and received awards for her songs from Prestige Music Award, Miami Independent Film Festival, AWARENESS Film Festival, Los Angeles CineFest and TOFF Festival. On International Day of Peace, Natasha released her first album with the title One Love. According to Natasha, she will dedicate all the money from the album for peace and humanity. Her album was launched by South African actress and producer, Alice Krige. Recently, Natasha just released a Music Video Album called "Because I'm a Woman" to inspired all the women in the world to fight for their rights on gender equality. This album was launched on International Women's Day 2016 with the current Minister of Environment and Forestry of Indonesia; Siti Nurbaya Bakar, Social Minister; Khofifah Indar Prawansa and the President Director of Radio Republic of Indonesia; Dra. Rosarita Niken Widiastuti, M.Si.

As an editor, She has edited movies like (Tears Of Ghost), (Angel), (Dream), (Digilir Ala Genderuwo), (School Fighter) and most of her music videos. Natasha has received awards as Best Editor for her movies and music videos. Recently, she just received Gold Award as Best Editor for her movie (Tears Of Ghost) from International Independent Film Awards.

Natasha started focusing herself on photography when she read an article about how photography can change people life. She also decided to start learning about photography after she realised that to become a good director she really need to know about photography as film and photography have much things in common. So, she started to learn photography under the influence of her father, Damien Dematra. Natasha has opened her first photo exhibition in January 2016 in the Auditorium of Radio Republic of Indonesia. The exhibition is about Indonesian’s beauty. The exhibition called #SAVEINDONESIA. She said she would love to dedicate all the money that comes from the selling of her photos for social issues. In March, Natasha finally received her first photo award from Los Angeles Cinefest and won the title Best Photo in that competition.

Natasha is known for her "creative campaigns" where she likes to promote social issues through creative things such as music, film and photos. Natasha is now the Ambassador for peace, Ambassador for human rights, Ambassador for tolerance, Ambassador for women, Ambassador for environment, in this capacity she met President Jokowi and many distinguished figures. In March 2015, she became the ambassador for the Indonesian People's Creative Council. As the Ambassador of human rights, on Martin Luther King day 2016, Natasha delivered a powerful speech about peace and humanity. The audiences were touched by the speech and the speech received standing applause. To celebrate the World Environment Day, Natasha launched a music video called "Song For Nature". This music video, is launched to bring awareness to the world about how important it is to protect the world we live in. This followed by another music video called "Earth" that was launched in September. Natasha has received Humanitarian Award, Environmental Award and Diversity & Inclusion Award for her humanitarian work.

During her busy schedules, Natasha still keeps her love for travelling. She has visited Australia, Asia, Europe and America. During her America backpacked touring for 4 months she attended the second inauguration of President Barack Obama in Washington D.C.. Natasha has been invited in many conferences and festivals to share her experience and expertise. In February 2015, Natasha Dematra received a Royal Princess title from Surakarta Kingdom for her tremendous achievement in such a young age. In late 2015, Natasha received another Royal title from Pakualaman Kingdom. In June 2016, Natasha received "White Lion" award from the Kingdom of Tallo. After graduated from school, she chose to do special courses from top universities while preparing for college. She is now currently taking special courses from Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley, University of Queensland, Curtin University and many more.