BLOODSHOT: THE DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES OF EAST TIMOR
Year: 2011
Length: 120 minutes
EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE SCREENING Join us for an evening of enlightenment and entertainment as we view the incredible documentary by Peter A Gordon. The film changed the course of the nation, Peter won numerous international awards and for the crew, it led to extraordinary changes in their lives. WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 10 7:00pm
Our evening commences with traditional Timorese music followed by our special guest speakers, and numerous door prizes generously donated by Yarraville's traders. Tickets $25 includes a glass of vino and popcorn.
After nearly 500 years of Portuguese rule, East Timor became an independent state in 1975, only to be bloodily annexed one week later by Indonesia. During the 24-year takeover, one-third of the Timorese population died from famine, violence, and disease. Uprisings were routinely stamped out, demonstrators forcibly disappeared and the tortured, headless bodies of activists dumped around villages served as macabre threats to those hoping to for an end to foreign rule. Twenty years ago Peter A Gordon made an undercover documentary in East Timor called "Cold Blood: the Massacre of East Timor" .
The mass shooting of at least 250 pro-democracy demonstrators in the capital in 1991 thrust the country into world view and helped its fight for self-rule become an international cause.
When East Timor finally voted for independence in a 1999 referendum, Indonesian troops ransacked the country, destroying essential documents, burning down private homes and public buildings, and sending thousands of Timorese into the relative safety of the hills. “The country was smoldering. The population was traumatized,” Sword Gusmao sighs. “Rebuilding from scratch has been no easy task.”
The film re-visits the 1975 Indonesian invasion, the 1991 cold-blooded Santa Cruz massacre of the citizens of East Timor by the Indonesian army, recorded by ex-BBC Blue Peter presenter, Max Stahl, who risked his life and consequently became a national hero. The programme researcher, Kirtsy Sword, a 22 year old Australian woman, fell in love and married the guerrilla leader, becoming First Lady when he became the first President in 2002.
Last year Peter returned to Timor with a film crew and filmed the astonishing transformations, discovered the fate of victims and survivors of the massacre and found the guerrillas who fought for their freedom. With unique access to the principle characters, the film is the moving human story of the individuals at the heart of a bloody revolution and of a nation still in the process of healing where justice sometimes has to be sacrificed for reconciliation. It is a story of bravery and commitment, of love and sacrifice.
Our evening commences with traditional Timorese music followed by our special guest speakers, and numerous door prizes generously donated by Yarraville's traders. Tickets $25 includes a glass of vino and popcorn.
After nearly 500 years of Portuguese rule, East Timor became an independent state in 1975, only to be bloodily annexed one week later by Indonesia. During the 24-year takeover, one-third of the Timorese population died from famine, violence, and disease. Uprisings were routinely stamped out, demonstrators forcibly disappeared and the tortured, headless bodies of activists dumped around villages served as macabre threats to those hoping to for an end to foreign rule. Twenty years ago Peter A Gordon made an undercover documentary in East Timor called "Cold Blood: the Massacre of East Timor" .
The mass shooting of at least 250 pro-democracy demonstrators in the capital in 1991 thrust the country into world view and helped its fight for self-rule become an international cause.
When East Timor finally voted for independence in a 1999 referendum, Indonesian troops ransacked the country, destroying essential documents, burning down private homes and public buildings, and sending thousands of Timorese into the relative safety of the hills. “The country was smoldering. The population was traumatized,” Sword Gusmao sighs. “Rebuilding from scratch has been no easy task.”
The film re-visits the 1975 Indonesian invasion, the 1991 cold-blooded Santa Cruz massacre of the citizens of East Timor by the Indonesian army, recorded by ex-BBC Blue Peter presenter, Max Stahl, who risked his life and consequently became a national hero. The programme researcher, Kirtsy Sword, a 22 year old Australian woman, fell in love and married the guerrilla leader, becoming First Lady when he became the first President in 2002.
Last year Peter returned to Timor with a film crew and filmed the astonishing transformations, discovered the fate of victims and survivors of the massacre and found the guerrillas who fought for their freedom. With unique access to the principle characters, the film is the moving human story of the individuals at the heart of a bloody revolution and of a nation still in the process of healing where justice sometimes has to be sacrificed for reconciliation. It is a story of bravery and commitment, of love and sacrifice.
* Cry Baby Session
