Director Tumpal Tampubolon is a cinephile-turned-filmmaker based in Jakarta, Indonesia. He graduated from Bandung Institute of Technology with a bachelor’s degree in Math and is an alumnus of the Asian Film Academy of the Busan International Film Festival. His first screenplay, The Last Believer (2006), won the Jakarta International Film Festival Script Development Competition for Best Short Fiction category. After that, his Tabula Rasa (2014), won the Citra Award for Best Original Screenplay. His latest short film, The Sea Calls for Me, won Sonje Award (Best Short Fiction) at the 2021 Busan International Film Festival. At present the director is working on his feature directorial debut.