Circle of Silence


Promoted By Demand Film

Date: Wed, May 3, 2023 6:30PM

Where: Palace James St
39 James St, FORTITUDE VALLEY, Queensland, 4006, Australia

Gil Scrine, filmmaker and friend of Shirley Shackleton's will pay a special tribute to Shirley at the start of the night. Gil has made political documentaries such as Buried Alive: The Story of East Timor (Winner AFI Award 1989). Gil received the Ordem de Timor Leste for his work in the Australia East Timor Association and for his film Buried Alive. Shirley Shackleton was a great inspiration to Gil’s film and solidarity work.

Tickets:

  • General Admission: $22.00
  • Additional booking fee of $1.95 per ticket.
  • (Includes all applicable taxes)

2 wheelchair space(s) available.

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Circle of Silence

Year: 2022

Genre: Documentary - Special Interest

Classification: TBC

Writer: Shirley Shackleton & Luigi Acquisto

Producer: Stella Zammataro & Bety Reis

Director: Luigi Acquisto & Lurdes Pires

Circle of Silence is a powerful human drama, a cold case investigation and a politically explosive story. It is inspired by Shirley Shackleton’s Walkley Award winning book of the same name. It uncovers new evidence about the notorious 1975 murders of five Australian based journalists, the Balibó Five, killed in Portuguese Timor whilst reporting on Indonesian military incursions. Shirley’s husband, Greg Shackleton, a Channel 7 reporter, was one of the men murdered. Shirley’s life has been marked by a fierce determination to discover the truth about the deaths and why Australia did not protest over the murders and subsequent genocide in East Timor. She starts her own investigation following the decision by the Australian Federal Police to abandon its war crimes investigation into the Balibó Five murders due to ‘insufficient evidence’. Shirley disagrees with the decision and travels to Timor Leste and Indonesia to discover startling new evidence about the crime. Circle of Silence was completed in 2022 shortly before Shirley’s passing. An impact campaign accompanies the film and continues Shirley’s determined efforts to uncover the truth about the Balibó Five murders and Australia’s involvement in the cover-up and in the invasion of East Timor.