Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Joko Anwar worked as a journalist, film critic. He is now known as a versatile filmmaker whose works ranging from award-winning arthouse movies to box office hits. His movies include Kala and The Forbidden Door (both landed on the list of BFI's Sight and Sound Magazine's Best Films of the year), A Copy of My Mind (Venice, Toronto), Indonesian horror hit Satan's Slaves, superhero movie Gundala (Toronto), thriller hit Impetigore (Sundance) which was also Indonesian submission for The Academy Awards, as well as Satan's Slaves 2: Communion, which is the first local and South-East Asian film to be screened in IMAX.