Gilbert Frederick Scrine

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Gil Scrine (2014)

Gilbert Gil Frederick Scrine is an Australian film producer and director. In 1973, Scrine founded Gil Scrine Films to publish political documentaries. The company, renamed Gil Scrine Films in 2010 , has since released numerous films in this genre. The video-on-demand platform Beamafilm was created in order to survive the declining market for DVDs .

Commitment to East Timor

In 1989 the film "Buried Alive: The Story of East Timor" was released. Scrine had produced the film in collaboration with the East Timor activist and later Nobel Peace Prize laureate José Ramos-Horta . The film brought the East Timor conflict back into the world's attention just as the subject was fading again. Scrine was also involved in the Australia East Timor Association AETA in Sydney .

After East Timor had 2002 independence was regained, traveled Scrine at the invitation of Ramos-Horta to Dili to here to start a film school. However, the project had to be discontinued due to financial problems.

In 2014 Scrine received the Insígnia des Ordem de Timor-Leste from the president of the now independent East Timor, Taur Matan Ruak .

Filmography (selection)

  • The Bad Society , 1977.
  • Kemira: Diary of a Strike , 1984.
  • Strangers in Paradise , 1989.
  • Buried alive: The Story of East Timor , 1989.
  • The Consensus Factory - Noam Chomsky and the Media , 1992.
  • A Thousand Miles From Care , 1992.
  • Hope , 2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Tempo Semanal Sabadu: Estado TL condecorados Membros da Solidaridade no dia 30 de Agosto de 2014 , August 30, 2014 , accessed on August 30, 2014 on TIMOR CONDECORA .
  2. ↑ Antidote Films: About us , accessed November 13, 2019.
  3. ↑ Jornal da República: Decreto do Presidente da República n ° 25/2014 , August 27, 2014 , accessed on November 13, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b c d imdb: Gil Scrine , accessed November 13, 2019.
  5. ↑ a b Screen Australia: Gilbert Frederick Scrine , accessed November 22, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Scrine, Gilbert Frederick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scrine, Gil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian film producer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century