Regatta Wins Gold at Telly Awards: A Story About Jakarta's Maritime Soul and the Power of Cinematic Archviz
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Some projects arrive as briefs. Others arrive as visions. Regatta was the latter.
When we were first introduced to the Regatta development — a luxury residential and mixed-use project rising from the northern Jakarta coastline — what struck us immediately was not the architecture. What struck us was the idea. Sail-shaped towers. A marina at the doorstep. A building that did not just stand beside the sea, but seemed to emerge from it.
Our job was to make people feel that.
The Brief: More Than Beautiful Renders
The Regatta project came with a specific challenge. This was not a development that needed to prove its quality — the architecture spoke clearly on its own. What it needed was a visual identity as ambitious as the buildings themselves. A film that didn't just show the towers, but captured the dialogue between Jakarta's maritime soul and its vertical ambitions.
We set out to create something that felt less like a property film and more like a short film about a way of life — one that only exists where the city meets the sea.
Our Approach: Letting the Horizon Lead
From the first day of production, we made a decision: the horizon would be our creative compass.
Every camera angle, every lighting decision, every atmospheric choice was calibrated to that single truth — that Regatta is a place where the human desire for verticality meets the ancient human pull toward open water.
We studied the quality of coastal light in Jakarta at different hours.
The film was designed to breathe. Long shots. Slow reveals. The kind of pacing that gives a viewer time to arrive inside the vision before the next image takes them somewhere new.
The Result: Gold at the Telly Awards 2026
When Regatta was submitted to the Telly Awards 2026, it returned with a Gold Winner recognition — one of the highest distinctions in international creative awards, judged by a panel of industry professionals across advertising, design, and visual media.
For Kunkun Visual, this recognition meant something beyond the trophy.
It confirmed that a property film — a format often dismissed as marketing material — can achieve the emotional and aesthetic standard of genuine creative work. That architectural visualization, when approached with cinematic seriousness, can move people the same way a great photograph or short film does.
It also confirmed something we have always believed about the Indonesian property market: the quality of creative vision here can compete with anywhere in the world.
What This Recognition Means for Property Developers
The Regatta Gold Telly win is not just a milestone for Kunkun Visual. It is a signal to every property developer in Indonesia and Malaysia that the bar for visual storytelling has been raised — and that the right creative partner can help you clear it.
Buyers today are sophisticated. They have seen thousands of property renders. They have watched hundreds of property films. They know the difference between work that moves them and work that merely informs them.
The developments that win in this environment are the ones that invest in the former.
A Note on What We Made
The Regatta film runs under three minutes. In those three minutes, we attempted to compress the entire emotional logic of a development — the aspiration, the beauty, the lifestyle, and the sense of arrival — into something that feels less like a sales pitch and more like a memory of a place you've never been but somehow already miss.
That, to us, is what award-winning architectural visualization looks like.
Not just seen — but felt
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— Kunkun Visual
Award-Winning Architectural Visualization Studio
Bandung, Indonesia & Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia