Apart from directing, producing, and writing story for his own films, Tjahjanto is known as one half of The Mo Brothers with friend and fellow filmmaker Kimo Stamboel.
16 Facts About Timo Tjahjanto
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The duo received a Citra Award nomination for Best Director in 2016 for Headshot while Timo Tjahjanto himself won the Maya Award for Best Director in 2019 for May the Devil Take You.
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Timo Tjahjanto received education at the School of Visual Arts in Australia, where he met future collaborator Kimo Stamboel.
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Timo Tjahjanto began his career in the film industry as a freelance story board artist and photographer.
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Timo Tjahjanto has cited Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and Tommy Lee Wallace's 1990 adaptation of Stephen King's It as his major influences.
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Timo Tjahjanto co-directed and co-wrote the segment with Gareth Evans, director of the 2011 action hit The Raid.
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In 2014, Timo Tjahjanto reunited with Stamboel as The Mo Brothers to direct, produce, and write Killers, a Japanese-Indonesian horror-thriller.
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In February 2020, Timo Tjahjanto released the sequel to May the Devil Take You, titled May the Devil Take You Too with Islan reprising her role as the main character.
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In September 2018, Timo Tjahjanto hinted on Twitter that he is working on adapting the action-thriller comic book JITU: Joint Tactical Intelligence Unit into a feature film.
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The project has not been officially confirmed despite Timo Tjahjanto posting another teaser on Instagram in April 2019.
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Timo Tjahjanto has confirmed that he has co-written a screenplay for a spin-off film focusing on Julie Estelle's character from The Night Comes for Us, titled Night of the Operator, with friend and collaborator Aaron Stewart-Ahn.
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In February 2020, Timo Tjahjanto posted on his Twitter account hinting at a sequel to the Mo Brothers' 2009 hit Macabre.
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Timo Tjahjanto was announced as director of a live-action adaptation of the Bumilangit Cinematic Universe film adaptation of comic book character Si Buta dari Gua Hantu in The Blind of the Phantom Cave: Angel's Eyes in 2018.
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In February 2021, Timo Tjahjanto was announced to helm a remake of South Korean blockbuster hit Train to Busan with James Wan producing for New Line Cinema.
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In July 2023, Timo Tjahjanto was announced as the director for Netflix action film The Shadow Strays.
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Timo Tjahjanto was married to Citra Award nominated actress Sigi Wimala in an East Jakartan church in November 2009.