Fundraising Screenings Update
A Guerra da Beatriz on the Radio
Jump Cut’s Elise West talks to Luigi Acquisto of Fairtrade Films about East Timor feature film ‘A Guerra Da Beatriz’ on 3CR community radio in October 2011. You can hear the interview here – Jump Cut Podcast.
In The Papers
The Sunday Age and Sydney Morning Herald, January 1st 2012, herald in the New Year by featuring ‘A Guerra da Beatriz’, a new film for a new year. In the Extra section you can check out the lead story “Of Love and War” by Natalie Craig, a journalist who spent a week on set during the filming of East Timor’s first feature film.
“East Timor’s first feature film revisits the tiny nation’s tortured struggle for independence, writes Natalia Craig. The people of Kasai are standing behind the camera, transfixed. Indonesian soldiers left their tiny village, just west of Dili in East Timor, more than a decade ago. Now their memories of that bloody period are being acted out before them” …read more…
First Stage of Filming on “A Guerra da Beatriz” Completed
The first stage of filming for “A Guerra da Beatriz” was completed in mid-December. FairTrade Films and Dili Film Works are now raising funds for the second stage of filming that will start in March 2012. In the gallery are some images from the four weeks of shooting that took place in Ulmera, a coastal village outside Dili, and in the mountain sub-district of Maubisse.
