ETWA Event - Independent Filmmaking in East Timor

INDEPENDENT FILM MAKING EAST TIMOR

Heru Ini Lafu: Weaving Life
Weaving Life is a unique film that journeys into rural East Timor to show a side of life rarely seen on Australian screen. The film highlights the women’s involvement in the resistance movement and celebrates their critical role in cultural regeneration and national development through weaving tais the traditional cloth of east Timor.

Atu Buka Mehi: In Search of a Dream
In Search of a Dream is a touching film detailing the plight of an East Timorese youth soccer team with big dreams of making it to the 2004 Asia Cup. This film beautifully captures a love of the world game and the determination of the youth of a new nation with the heartfelt belief that it can be done.

East Timor Women Australia, ETWA is a small not for profit community group that supports cultural and economic development in rural East Timor. In 2007 they partnered with Independent film maker Marcus Salvagno to produce “Heru Ini Lafu; Weaving life” a short film about the women ETWA support, their cultural heritage and their role in Timor’s resistance and community reconstruction.

In this special event, ETWA welcomes Marcus Salvagno to screen and discuss these films as well as his other Independent work based in East Timor. This is a rare opportunity to meet with a director who continues to work with community concerns and local capacity building in mind. The evening should be of particular interest to other community groups who are seeking to document their own field of endeavours with lessons learned from working on small budget cross cultural film projects.

DATE: Thursday 30th September 2010
TIME: 6.00PM-8.00PM
VENUE: Ross House, 247 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Please share invite with your friends.

Food and drinks to share and traditional East Timorese handicrafts for sale on the night.
All proceeds will go towards supporting ETWA’s projects in Timor Leste.

More on ETWA's website.

Volunteer Tutor Wanted for Filmmakers

~ posted on behalf of Dili Film Works ~

Tutor wanted

Dili Film Works is a new NGO based in Dili East Timor. The focus of the NGO is to teach East Timorese how to become filmmakers. We have received a small amount of funding from the Hubert Bals Fund (Rotterdam Film Festival) to run a drama workshop and from the Jan Vrijman Fund (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) to run a doco course.

We are looking for a tutor to help run the film production courses in Dili. The Tutor will be overseen by a senior lecturer, Luigi Acquisto. It is a volunteer's wage ($500 US a month) plus accommodation and most meals. The job is for 2 - 4 months starting at the end of October. The tutor must speak English but can be from any country.

The courses are preparing a group of talented young East Timorese filmmakers to produce the country’s first feature film in 2011. The film will be co-produced by FairTrade Films Australia and Dili Film Works. Acclaimed producer John Maynard (Romulus My Father, Balibo) will be co-producing the film as well as assisting with the workshops.

Luigi is presently based in Melbourne so could meet up with any interested and suitable candidates. My email details are listed.

Stella Zammataro
ProducerAbracadabra Films
FairTrade Films
Dili Film Worksstella@abrafilms.com
www.fairtrade.films.com.au

October METAC Dinner - Friends of Aileu

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE

When: Oct 1st at 6:30pm

Where: Holy Child Community Centre, 133 Malmsbury Drive, Meadow Heights

Please direct all enquiries to Richard Brown: 0407 091 004 or email rbrown@moreland.vic.gov.au

Dili All Stars Best of Album Launch - Melbourne

Dili All Stars
Album launch for release of ABC Music ``Best Of’’

When: Monday November 1
Where: The Evelyn Hotel
351 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy Tel. 9419 5500
Cost: Admission $15

With Tabura (West Papua) and Project Puzzles

Community Meeting 29th September

Community Meeting
Our Friendship and its Future

Wednesday September 29th 2010, 6 – 8 p.m.
Meeting Room 1&2
Richmond Town Hall
333 Bridge Road Richmond
City of Yarra

Friends of Baucau Inc invite you to come along to your community meeting.

The Cities of Yarra and Darebin have made a decision to support the Friends of Baucau to become a sustainable and independent community association that is Friends of Baucau Incorporated!. This means there will be changes in the structure of FOB, and some realignment of the priorities of the association and our projects.

We would like hear from you to ensure this community Association is well constructed and that you are able to participate in shaping its future. This will be a practical and informative discussion.

A third meeting is also planned for November.

Councillors from Darebin and Yarra and members of the new FOB Inc Committee will discuss the implications of the changes and explore some of the options for this future relationship.

Of course the evening will conclude with some light refreshments.

Please RSVP to Patricia Woodcroft--Lee on 9481 4232, or 0407 580 777 or Fiona Young 8470 8332 (message only).

In friendship
Rae Kingsbury
Convenor - Friends of Baucau

Celebration of ten years of Friendship for Friends of Suai

The City of Port Phillip together with the Friends of Suai cordially invite you to a Community
Reception for the President of East Timor, Jose Ramos Horta. This occasion marks the signing of the Friendship Agreement with the Suai delegation and the launch of the Strategic Plan 2010 - 2020.

Date: Monday, 18 October 2010
Venue: Auditorium, St Kilda Town Hall
Time: 6pm – 8pm

RSVP: 4 October 2010
Phone: 9209 6777 or
email: rsvp@portphillip.vic.gov.au

Honouring our Ancestors: Remembering Timor Leste

Check out the new exhibition at the Immigration Museum in Melbourne 19 September 2010 - 10 April 2011:

An exhibition about the rituals practised by the East Timorese community in
Victoria. This exhibition explores a ritual called Se Matebian, which takes
place each year on All Souls Day and honours East Timorese ancestors. It looks
at how the East Timorese community in Australia continues to practise this
ritual today.

Personal stories and reflections of people from the East Timorese community are shared and featured objects include a silver breast plate and head piece worn by elders during ceremonial peace, a silver jewellery box with an ancestral worship home on top, jewellery associated with ancestors, timber statues representing ancestors, hand woven baskets and East Timorese fabrics.

There are also kids school holiday activities including story time, weaving and kite making associated with the exhibition.

More info is available on the Immigration Museum Website.