Long Road to Heaven: Bali Bombing on film
Its been a while since the 2002 Bali bombings. The dust has settled, we now have a permanent memorial, annual services and Paddy’s Bar in now a surf shop. Indonesian film makers have put together a dramatisation of the Bali bombings, getting behind the scenes, and showing the personalities of the bombers, called ‘Long Road to Heaven‘.
Producer Nia Dinata said “I hope to bring back the conversation in Indonesia about tolerance and humanism, and part of that is having an understanding about the Bali issue.” The director of Long Road to Heaven, is Enison Sinaro, who said showing the bombers personal side was key to the film. Making a less than complimentary film about Muslims in a Muslim country, is bound to draw some criticism, but Sinaro is confident people will be objective, “We don’t want people saying we’re giving Islam a bad name, or degrading Islam - it’s nothing of the sort.” he said.
The movie opens in Indonesia on Thursday.
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Long Road to Heaven film has been playing at local cinema since 25th of january, the main character in the film are Hannah Catrelle an american surfer ,Liz Thomson Australian Journalist are played by Mirrah Foulkes and Raelee Hill an australia actrese, Wayan Diya taxi driver (native Villager),Hambali,Haji Ismail are played by wellknown local actor such as Alex komang as Wayan Diya, Surya Saputra as Hambali and Jashua Pandelaki as Haji Ismail.I hope this film give a big contribution for bali recovery, finger crosed Boz. Selamat Menonton!
I hope that’s not kontreversial film,comment by Sonia Monfore (USA)
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Will be great to see from the Indonesian perspective how it was and what it has done. Good on them for doing it before the Aussies and Americans do it THEIR way ! I am Australian and hope we get the chance to view it.
Nick great blog site, very informative
Thanks for all your blogging
Clare