Reclaiming the Personal as Political: Three Documentaries on East Timor

Mary Debrett looks at three documentaries on post-independence East Timor - 'The Diplomat (Zubrycki, 2000), 'Mavis Goes to Timor' (Westh, 2000) and 'Children of the Crocodile' (Emerman, 2002), and places them in the context of the revival and reinvention of the 'political' documentary.