From the wild zone

By Liza Power
Updated August 14 2012 - 2:28pm, first published August 11 2012 - 7:39pm
Director Amiel Courtin-Wilson has been busy with Timorese artists for <i>Doku Rai</i>.
Director Amiel Courtin-Wilson has been busy with Timorese artists for <i>Doku Rai</i>.
Director Amiel Courtin-Wilson's new film <i>Hail</i>, based loosely on the life of former inmate Daniel Jones.
Director Amiel Courtin-Wilson's new film <i>Hail</i>, based loosely on the life of former inmate Daniel Jones.
Hail
Hail

TWO weeks ago filmmaker Amiel Courtin-Wilson found himself marooned on the East Timorese island of Atauro, staying in an abandoned colonial hotel and watching a group of theatremakers wrestle their way through the development of a project called Doku Rai. If Courtin-Wilson first felt like an interloper, walking in to ''this anarchic artist colony in hyperdrive in some kind of wild Shangri-La'', he soon found his feet.

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