Current Funding Campaigns
CURRENT CAMPAIGN:
THE CIRCLE OF SILENCE
(AKA The Age of Living Dangerously)
Campaign Started February, 2021
FairTrade Films and co-production partner Dili Film Works are currently raising funds to complete THE CIRCLE OF SILENCE (aka The Age of Living Dangerously). This is a film that profoundly touches both Timor-Leste and Australia. The film has completed filming and is currently in postproduction. It will be completed in October 2021. The producers wish to thank the many generous supporters of this film.
The current crowdfunding campaign for the film is to cover the costs of archive footage, final post production and marketing and distribution expenses. See below for information about how to contribute to the crowd funding campaign.
Greg Shackleton, Balibó, Portuguese Timor, 1975.
THE CIRCLE OF SILENCE (AKA The Age of Living Dangerously)The Story The Circle of Silence (aka The Age of Living Dangerously) is a powerful human drama, a cold case investigation and a politically explosive story. Shirley Shackleton travels to Indonesia to visit her husband’s grave. Greg Shackleton was one of five Australian based journalists, the Balibó Five, killed in Portuguese Timor whilst reporting on Indonesian military incursions into the small colony in 1975. This is an unsolved mass killing and Shirley has lived for decades not knowing how her husband died or who killed him. But she does know that not long after they were killed the men’s remains were buried in a Jakarta cemetery. She has campaigned for years to have Greg’s remains repatriated to Australia. Shirley will visit the Jakarta cemetery and attempt to have Greg’s ashes returned. Shirley then travels to Timor Leste and retraces the steps of veteran Australian journalist Roger East who travelled to Dili in 1975 to investigate the deaths of the five young men. East was later shot and killed in Dili the day after the full-scale invasion of Timor in December 1975. The story of Roger East and the Balibó Five was told in Robert Connolly’s powerful feature film Balibó. This documentary investigates why these crimes, over forty years later, have not been properly investigated. Shirley Shackleton’s life has been marked by a fierce determination to discover the truth about the deaths, and why Australia and many other countries did not protest over the subsequent genocide in East Timor. Her journey follows in the wake of the decision by the Australian Federal Police to abandon its war crimes investigation into the case due to ‘insufficient evidence’. Shirley wants to know how her husband died. She wants the doubts and nightmares to end so that she can live the rest of her long life in peace. Shirley travels to the small town of Balibó on the border of Timor Leste and Indonesia. It is where her husband and the other four journalists were killed in 1975. In Balibó Shirley uncovers new evidence about who killed her husband, or how he died. She grieves, and the women in the town grieve with her, and hold a traditional Timorese ceremony to release Greg’s soul and to put an end to Shirley’s mourning. In Timor the ceremony is called a Koremetan, literally untying the black. It marks the end of the mourning period following a person’s death. The Timorese see Greg and Shirley’s story as their own, and they take responsibility for her healing. This is a powerful and moving conclusion to the film, and to this chapter in Shirley’s life. The film is reminiscent of Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence. However, The Circle of Silence (aka The Age of Living Dangerously), unlike Oppenheimer’s films is about the murder of Australian citizens, and, in the case of East Timor, about the largest genocide per capita in modern history, which happened right on our doorstep. Many believe that the Australian Government at the time covered up the murders, and colluded in the invasion of Timor to protect its trade interests with Indonesia. Until the truth is told about who murdered these men, why Timor was sacrificed, and why Australia has been complicit in and covered up these crimes, the reputation Australia has as a decent, fair nation is damaged. Dili Film Works and FairTrade Films are currently seeking philanthropic support for this film. COMPLETED CAMPAIGN: A GUERRA DA BEATRIZ (BEATRIZ’S WAR)Timor Leste’s first feature film, A Guerra da Beatriz, was made through the generous support of hundreds of individuals and organisations that contributed to the film’s three crowdsourcing campaigns. The producers would like to thank the many people from around the world who supported the film. In Timor Leste we would like to express a special thanks to former President, and Noble Peace Prize Laureate, H.E Jose Ramos Horta, Former Prime Minister H.E Xanana Gusmão, Kirsty Sword Gusmão, the Office of the Prime Minister, and The Secretariat for Arts & Culture.
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