Activating the future: political documentaries and media activism.(art & activism)

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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 ...

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