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Article: Activating the future: political documentaries and media activism.(art & activism)
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- September 1, 2006
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In January 2006, the Jakarta Film Festival in Indonesia banned the screening of a documentary film about the recent political events in East Timor. This attempt at deactivation ironically, and naturally, fueled the film's potential reach. Passabe (2005), the debut film of two Singapore-based filmmakers, Lynn Lee and James Leong, documents the attempts (backed by the United Nations [UN]) to establish East Timor's Commission for Reception in remote villages. These villages were torn apart by violence inflicted by Indonesian militia groups after the 1999 referendum for independence following two decades of Indonesian rule. Named after the village from which came a group that ...