{"id":303,"date":"2009-04-28T13:50:55","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T02:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rachaelturk.com\/?p=303"},"modified":"2009-04-28T13:50:55","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T02:50:55","slug":"this-week-at-fomm-balibo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rachaelturk.com\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"this week at FOMM: Balibo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Adapting Current Affairs<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Balibo<\/em>&#8216;s Tony Maniaty<\/p>\n<p>In their innate drama, current affairs can make great film material. But not without struggles of their own. In the context of films like <em>The Year of Living Dangerously<\/em> and <em>The Killing Fields<\/em>, journalist Tony Maniaty \u2013 who covered the 1975 war in East Timor for ABC TV and experienced the shelling at Balibo \u2013 talks about his consulting role in adapting news stories to the screen for Robert Connolly&#8217;s new film <em>Balibo<\/em>, and the changing role of the journalist.<\/p>\n<p>Venue: AFTRS Theatrette, Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park<br \/>\nDate: Friday, May 1<br \/>\nTime: 5-6pm<br \/>\nEntry: Free (2-hr free parking)<\/p>\n<p>Friday On My Mind is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aftrs.edu.au\/\">AFTRS<\/a>\u2018 weekly event bringing you face to face with the industry\u2019s brightest thinkers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adapting Current Affairs Balibo&#8216;s Tony Maniaty In their innate drama, current affairs can make great film material. But not without struggles of their own. In the context of films like The Year of Living Dangerously and The Killing Fields, journalist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rachaelturk.com\/?p=303\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[74,75,76],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-on-my-mind","tag-david-williamson","tag-history","tag-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rachaelturk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rachaelturk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rachaelturk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rachaelturk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rachaelturk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rachaelturk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rachaelturk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rachaelturk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rachaelturk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}