Beyond Paradise
This feature film, to be directed by twice Academy Award nominated filmmaker David Bradbury, is a love story set in a warzone - the tiny island of Timor to the north of Australia.

HOPE was just a child in 1975 when her journalist father disappeared, presumed dead while on assignment in Timor on the eve of its invasion by Indonesia. Now, it's 1991 and Hope is a 29-year old single mum and a not-so-good singer in a thrash band that's going nowhere fast.

When the band finishes its last gig in Bali, Hope ducks across to neighbouring Timor to bury the ghost of her father, something that has angered and troubled her since childhood. After all, Timor can't be that dangerous if the Pope was there two years ago to give the former Portuguese colony his blessing. Hope is confident that her streetwise approach together with her experience of travelling in Asia will see her through.

On board the plane to Dili is PAUL, a mid forties freelance English cameraman/journalist who despairs about the human condition but believes that, just maybe, an image he captures with his camera might turn the tide of events for the better. Also on board the plane is 35 year old COLONEL TAFIK, nicknamed Geronimo, who is drop dead handsome.

Hope and Paul stay at the rundown old Hotel Dili (like something out of a Graham Greene novel), which is full of odd characters. As Hope attempts to discover what happened to her father, she becomes involved in a relationship triangle with the charming Geronimo and Paul. Meanwhile, events in Dili slide inexorably towards the murder of a Timorese student friend.

SEBASTIO's funeral and the subsequent protest demonstration by the Timorese, leads to the massacre of hundreds of innocents by the Indonesian army, the infamous Dili massacre. Hope is drawn into this web of intrique and forced to take a stand. An unexpected twist at the end will defy even the most seasoned cinema buff's guess as to what will happen!

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