The School of Creative Writing is pleased to congratulate Ariane Anantaputri, MFA. Ariane’s graduate thesis is a television series entitled Yellow Fever.
Ariane came to the program with a background in stand-up comedy and filmmaking. After working as a freelance producer and performing comedy for over seven years in the UK and Indonesia, she decided it was time for a change in scenery — the mountains and oceans of British Columbia to develop her writing skills in other genres and hone her screenwriting craft. While in the program, she served as Managing Editor of PRISM international and Associate Editor at Young Adulting Magazine.
Ariane’s television series, Yellow Fever, blends the murderous offbeat antiheroism of HBO’s Barry with the simmering Asian rage of Netflix’s BEEF with a zillenial twist. It highlights the absurdities of compulsory heterosexuality, Vancouver’s infrastructure, the city’s culture of cold friendliness, and a new and unhinged take on Indonesian girlhood, true crime, and the role of neocolonialism and racism in modern romance. It follows waitress Melati Wardhani, Vancouver’s first Asian woman serial killer targeting white men, gaining accidental viral stardom and a copycat killer.
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