Afif Fahmi was born on Sapudi Island - Indonesia, December 1996. He is a Film & TV graduate at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta. Has directed several short fiction and documentary films. In making films, he focuses a lot on the relationship between humans and nature. His film 'Sampun Jawah' competed at the 2018 Sjón International Anthropological Film Festival (Denmark) and was nominated (Best College Film) at the 2019 Strasburg Film Festival (USA).

His last film 'Human vs Elephant' was (Best Film) at the Denpasar Documentary Film Festival 2020, Bandung Independent Film Festival 2021, and won (Gaia Award) at the Bozcaada International Festival of Ecological Documentary 2021.