FairTrade Films and Dili Film Works are using a crowd-funding strategy to raise finance for A Guerra Da Beatriz, which they claim will be East Timor’s first feature film.
John Maynard is one of the producers, and Sbs and the World Movies channel have acquired the film for broadcast in Australia; even the president of East Timor, Jose Ramos-Horta has already contributed to the project.
A Guerra Da Beatriz is “a powerful love story spanning the years 1975 – 2002, of one woman’s conviction to remain true to the man she loves and the country for which she fought”. It is inspired by a true 16th century French story about Bertrande de Rols and her husband Martin Guerre; in this adaptation the story has been transposed to East Timor on the eve of the Indonesian invasion of the Portuguese colony.
Australian filmmaker John Maynard will produce the film alongside Stella Zammataro and Jose Da Costa.
John Maynard is one of the producers, and Sbs and the World Movies channel have acquired the film for broadcast in Australia; even the president of East Timor, Jose Ramos-Horta has already contributed to the project.
A Guerra Da Beatriz is “a powerful love story spanning the years 1975 – 2002, of one woman’s conviction to remain true to the man she loves and the country for which she fought”. It is inspired by a true 16th century French story about Bertrande de Rols and her husband Martin Guerre; in this adaptation the story has been transposed to East Timor on the eve of the Indonesian invasion of the Portuguese colony.
Australian filmmaker John Maynard will produce the film alongside Stella Zammataro and Jose Da Costa.
- 5/6/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
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