The Sun Theatre is the founding sponsor of Cinema
Lorosa’e, a free, community based outdoor cinema program in Timor-Leste that
opened in August 2011 and ran during the dry season in Dili and the districts.
There are no cinemas in Timor-Leste and the first season of Cinema Lorosa’e was
a huge success. Over the three month period the Lorosa’e team screened in Dili
and throughout the districts to over 45,000 people and the response has been
incredible with evenings of up to a few thousand people gathered together to
see a film.
Sun Theatre is planning to continue the program
this year with more screenings in the districts from May through to November.
They have been running indoor screenings in Dili through the wet season with all
proceeds directly supporting the operations of the outdoor screenings.
In their efforts to get the 2012 Cinema
Lorosa’e outdoor program running, Sun Theatre will be hosting the Melbourne premiere of
AFRICA UNITED as a fundraising
event on Wednesday the 7th of March. Tickets for this event are $25 per person and include ticket, a glass of
sparkling on arrival, popcorn and door prizes and all monies raised will be
utilised in the Cinema Lorosa’e program for 2012.
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