Last year Arts in Action held two fundraiser screenings to help raise revenue for the making of East Timor’s first locally produced feature film – “A Guerra Da Beatriz” a co-production between FairTrade Films, Dili Film Works and John Maynard. “A Guerra da Beatriz” is a love story inspired by a true 16th century French story about Bertrande de Rols and her husband Martin Guerre. In this adaptation the story has been transposed to East Timor on the eve of the Indonesian invasion of the Portuguese colony. The first stage of filming for “A Guerra da Beatriz” was completed in mid-December 2011. The crew spent four weeks shooting in Ulmera, a coastal village outside Dili, and in the mountain sub-district of Maubisse. “A Guerra da Beatriz is the first movie authored by East Timorese  artists, an emotional undertaking in a country still haunted by the memories of  the Indonesian occupation. [...]