Yandy Laurens

Alexander Yandy Laurens (born April 9, 1989) is a Indonesian film director, screenwriter, and producer. Born and raised in Makassar, Laurens studied film at the Jakarta Arts Institute (Institut Kesenian Jakarta). His graduation short film, Wan An, won Best Short Film at the 2012 Indonesian Film Festival. Following this achievement, he went on to direct numerous commercials, music videos, and web series.

In 2017, Laurens was announced as the director of a film adaptation of the 1996 television series Keluarga Cemara. The film, titled Cemara’s Family, had its world premiere at the 2018 Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival. Starring Ringgo Agus Rahman, Nirina Zubir, Adhisty Zara, and Widuri Puteri, it was theatrically released on 3 January 2019 and became the seventh highest-grossing Indonesian film of all time, with 1,699,433 admissions.