Broadcast on ABC Local Radio South Australia’s Country Hour in November 2009.
With the decline of drive-in theaters in regional areas it is harder to catch a flick on the big screen, but an initiative called the Big Screen Festival is changing that.
The festival travels through regional Australia with this year’s best flicks. The movie that kicked off the event in Broken Hill was Balibo, a film that traces the steps of six journalists who were murdered in East Timor while covering the Indonesian invasion in 1975.
In September this year, the Australian federal police announced a war crimes investigation into the deaths after years of accusations that the Australian government covered up the killings.
Nicky Redl caught up with the director and co-screenplay writer, Robert Connolly, who was in Broken Hill for the screening.